Clubs and Organizations

Computer Forensics Group

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The Computer Forensics Group at JMU is a student-based group whose members want to learn about fundamentals as well as current developments in Computer Forensics. We encourage participation from anybody at JMU who is interested in computer forensics. In the past, members of the group have given presentations on forensic topics and tools, recovered data from "broken" hard drives, participated in DFRWS and HoneyNet forensics challenges, and examined and developed forensic tools.

Lately, the group has also been assisting the JMU Police Department with some of their computer forensics needs. Participating in forensics challenges and supporting the local police department gives our students a window into real-world forensics problems and how to work on them. The group managed to achieve 7th place out of 91 submissions in the 2010 HoneyNet January challenge. For the 2006 DFRWS File Carving Challenge, the group developed a graphical user interface for file carving, which received honorable mention at the conference. For the JMU police department we have successfully extracted dozens of hours of video surveillance data from a broken RAID server system, and we are giving advice to the investigators when they need expertise on specific file system and operating system questions.

If you would like to find out more about the group's activities, contact Florian Buchholz or sign up for the Cyberforensics mailing list.

Cyber Defense Club

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The Cyber Defense Club is a group of students that is interested in the operational aspects of managing and protecting the network infrastructure. Among other activities, the Cyber Defense Club represents JMU at the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (CCDC). For more information about the club, please visit its web site .