EC3 trains future EU cybercrime experts

Still, in its first year, the European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) has expanded its training and capacity building with a new course on Open Source IT Forensics which is being currently delivered at the Spanish National Police School in Avila. The forensic focus of this new course compliments the course on combatting child sexual exploitation that Focal Point Twins has organised for the last 14 years in Selm (Germany).

This new EC3 annual course will enable cybercrime investigators that have operational experience but lack forensic expertise, to perform forensic analysis by exclusively using open source tools. In this way, even investigators from EU cyber units with limited forensic tools will be able to improve their investigative capabilities on cybercrime.

EC3 aims to complete its training offers in 2014 with a third course addressing future leaders of international cybercrime operations. The training will enable them to efficiently manage the complex logistic, human and technological requirements and challenges posed by these kinds of operations.

Open Source IT Forensics is a pioneering course, and some members of EC3 have therefore been included in the group of participants, to improve the quality of the debriefing that will be made at its conclusion. In this way EC3 intends to enhance future.