The three-day conference and exhibition tackled a wide range of security-related issues, from hackers and worms to intellectual property theft, computer forensics and organized crime.
Unlike other security-focused IT trade shows which tend to focus only on how to prevent crimes, Cybercrime also addressed ways to investigate and prosecute computer crimes.
The audience here was made up of crime professionals from law enforcement, government and the private sector in equal parts, according to James Doyle, president of Internet Crimes, in
As in past years, the purpose of the show is to call attention to the growing sophistication of computer criminals and to raise the level of sophistication of those charged with investigating computer crimes.
"Law enforcement must be aware that technology is continually advancing and that the criminal element will adopt new technology as it comes along," Doyle said. "It's not like fingerprints, where you can train someone once and they can lift prints for the next 20 years."
To tackle the problem, Cybercrime attempts to combine technology with education and awareness training for those who confront or investigate computer crimes, Doyle said.
Unlike past years, however, the looming possibility of both war and terrorist attacks were on the minds of attendees as well as show organizers.
A number of seminars focused on issues related to domestic security including talks on the threat of cyberterrorism and protecting critical infrastructure from representatives from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and the
Despite the high visibility of domestic security on the show's agenda, most law enforcement personnel interviewed here said the threat of cyberterrorism was remote compared to the day-to-day challenge of fighting crimes like identity and intellectual property theft or child exploitation.
But for Doyle, the lack of a major, documented act of cyberterrorism doesn't make the threat less real.
"People say that the cyberterrorism threat isn't real, but three years ago, who imagined that the
Law enforcement needs to be more aware of how computer crimes can be used by terrorists to achieve their goals, according to Doyle.
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