Focus Area: Fire & Safety

Digital Forensics: Because Bruce Willis is not always there to save the world…

In Die Hard 4.0, former Security Agent Thomas Gabriel is hacking US government IT-systems. He takes control over the financial system, the electricity grid and causes terrible calamities among the civil population until John McClane alias Bruce Willis eventually stops him in his own famous style… What is presented in the movies as pure Hollywood fiction has – at least in parts – become a reality on the ground, unfortunately. Less spectacular though, but no less worrying are incidents where malicious hackers obtain confidential files of thousands of patients, intrude into government IT-systems or launch successful Denial of Service attacks on governmental websites. Increasing security by building secure networks is only one part of the necessary measurements. Once an attack has been successfully launched neither business nor government institutions can go back to normal without investigating on how the incident happened and who caused it. This is where Digital Forensics come into play.