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Backbone Security Delivers Certified Steganography Examiner Training in Turkey
Students from Turkish National Police Take Certified Steganography Examiner Course
PRESS RELEASE
November 17, 2008
FAIRMONT, WV - Backbone Security technical staff members have just returned from
their first international training trip to Ankara where they taught an advanced
computer forensic course to students from the Turkish National Police.
Chad Davis and Rob Lipscomb taught the Certified Steganography Examiner training
course that was developed in Backbone’s Steganography Analysis and Research Center
(SARC).
Steganography is the art and science of writing hidden messages in such a way that
no one apart from the sender and intended recipient even realizes there is a hidden
message. Finding and extracting the hidden information is called steganalysis.
Backbone developed the course to raise awareness of the threat from use of digital
steganography to conceal evidence of criminal activity. The course features an introduction
to the history of steganography since the days of the Ancient Greeks along with
in-depth technical information on the various methods for hiding information.
During the second day of the two-day course, students use the advanced steganalysis
tools developed in the SARC in laboratory exercises designed to simulate a realistic
computer forensic examination. The students learn how easy it is for criminals to
use anti-forensic tools such as digital steganography applications and how it’s
impossible to find and extract hidden evidence without highly advanced special purpose
computer forensic tools such as those developed in the SARC.
“Our course demonstrates the ease with which insiders can steal sensitive information
and bad guys can conceal evidence of criminal activity. We also show the students
how our tools can help them find and extract information of possible evidentiary
value that may have otherwise been overlooked.” said Bill Krebs, President and Chief
Operating Officer of Backbone.
According to Bart Guerreri, Chairman and CEO of Backbone, “This course was an overwhelming
success and is the first of many we anticipate teaching in Turkey next year and
possibly other countries in the region.”
About the SARC - The SARC is a Center of Excellence in digital steganography research and development within Backbone Security. The SARC has established the worlds largest commercially available repository of digital steganography applications, fingerprints, and signatures and has developed industry leading computer forensics and network security steganalysis tools for detecting and extracting information hidden with digital steganography applications.
About Backbone Security - In addition to the world class digital steganography research and development conducted in the SARC, Backbone is an Approved Scanning Vender (ASV) certified by the Payment Card Industry-(PCI) Security Standards Council to conduct automated PCI Data Security Standard compliance assessments with a One-Stop Scanning Solution.