Yi-Ching Liao defended her thesis titled “Process Tracking for Forensic Readiness ” at the Faculty of Computer Science and Media Technology, NTNU in Gjøvik.

Liao has looked at how companies can collect and preserve potential evidence in advance, if they were to experience a cyber attack. Perpetrators need access to system resources to commit cybercrime. Liao has researched opportunities for companies to keep low-level operating system logs. She has found ways that a company can preserve reliable evidence and thus be prepared for a possible digital investigation.

Liao’s supervisors were Professor Hanno Langweg and Professor Katrin Franke, Faculty of Computer Science and Media Technology, NTNU in Gjøvik.

Assessment committee:

• First External opponent: Professor Felix Freiling, Lehrstuhl für Informatik 1, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.
• Second External opponent: Junior Professor Delphine Reinhardt, Institute of Computer Science, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms, Universität Bonn, Germany
• Internal opponent: Associate Professor Stefan Axelsson, Faculty of Computer Science and Media Technology, NTNU in Gjøvik
• Head of the committee and its administrator: Professor Slobodan Petrovic, Faculty of Computer Science and Media Technology, NTNU in Gjøvik

Head of section Laura Georg conducted the public defense.

Congratulations!

Content and Photos by Marte Helene Foss.