Media Release

Mangaluru, Mar 9: The National Conference was organized by the department of digital and cyber forensic, Institute of allied health science on Friday, Mar 7. The conference was about the new frontier in securing the future of digital forensic.

The Conference was held by the faculty of the department of digital and cyber forensic, Institute of allied health science. Sneha Vincent, Course Coordinator of Department of Digital and Cyber Forensic, Sarath M S, assistant professor department of digital and cyber forensic, Ashna S H, assistant professor department of digital and cyber forensic, Nithin Kumar M, assistant professor department of digital and cyber forensic, Sherin Leonora assistant professor department of digital and cyber forensic.

The conference began with the first session of cybercrime and offences done by the speaker VYSHAK R, assistant professor SUIET Srinivas University Mangalore.

The session was about the cybercrime, types of hackers, intellectual property right, AI generated video, quantum computation and the legal consideration of the offences.

After the session, inauguration function was held followed by the prayer song by the students of the department of the digital and cyber forensic and lamp lighting ceremony. Welcome speech was delivered by Sneha Vincent, course coordinator of department of digital and cyber forensic, welcomed our dignified guests, faculty members and students with the token of sweet words and love. and next the welcome address was delivered by the chief guest Prof Dr K Satyanarayan Reddy, vice chancellor of Srinivas University Mangalore which encouraged students and faculty for knowing the trends in the digital forensics. The gathering was enlightened by the dignified speech by Prof Pavan Krishnamurthy, dean of Institute of allied health science.

The second session was taken by Ajay Prinston Pinto, assistant professor SIT Srinivas University Mangalore about the topic balancing innovation and privacy: AI

This session was about how the AI works? types of machine learning (ML), deep learning and natural language processing (NLP), why AI is used in digital forensic, tokenization, name entity recognition (NER), sentimental analysis, stemming and limitations and also discussed about the operation Lyrebird, The “ Black box” problem in AI and about the fitbit murder case where the digital forensic played an important role for solving the case.

Session 3rd was about the digital tools for AI age by the speaker Vivek V Kumar, assistant professor SIT Srinivas University Mangalore.

The session was about different tools in this AI era for understanding which is fake and real. He also explained about different open-source tools which can be used for the academic and professional purposes. The tools that discussed was about GROK which is better than Chatgpt which gives the reasons of the topic we inputted and a better explanation than Chatgpt.

Perplexity which even gives a better explanation with the references from where the information is taken and next is Google AI Studio which helps us to attach a big file and find the topics where that file which we need and gives note about that topic. Next was about the Notebooklm which is a free open-source tool where we can interact with AI in live and a separate space for the notebooks we can create, very useful for report writing and research paper writing where 50 sources of papers can be uploaded and gives the better view of the topic.

Afternoon and Final Session was taken by Emmanuel Ben T, forensic professional from CFSL Hyderabad

Sir discussed about the digital forensic and the disc forensic. He discussed about the types of disks, types of interfaces used in HDD Disk. What is Imaging and Disk Cloning? Two types of imaging.

The Tools used in disk forensic are TX1, FALCON, ATOLA, PC3000, MAGNET AXLOM.

Sir also demonstrated one practical in the software FRAT 1.0 where all the details of the device, activity logging where it can be track down.

The Conference was winded up the vote of thanks delivered by Sherin Leonora assistant professor department of digital and cyber forensic.