Competition workshop

Recently I was involved in a digital forensic workshop for a competition agency.

It is an interesting issue because a great deal of work in competition enforcement agencies today is related to handling digital evidence. There are a lot of document on the international competition  network site which lively present the state of anti cartel practice. Each anti cartel agency has its own procedures and history but there is one common thing, introduction of digital evidence support. Some agencies are even completely moved to electronic documents while others are handling paper documents or being completely on the paper documentation. The process which leads to digitization and accepting digital evidence is not an easy one, it takes a lot of time and effort, and usually requires thinking about procedures and documentation workflow in the anti cartel agency. Such processes can take a long time and have a lot of mishaps.
I was involved in preparing a  raid simulation as the basic part of the workshop, very nice  operation with a lot of things to learn.  The result of workshop was a set of forms and blueprints which give the full planing capability for the agency. The idea was well tested from disaster recovery and business continuity practices. A simple approach where you create a set of procedures and documents which drive you through the whole event, it also gives a nice opportunity for role play approach and testing scenarios. I hope we did a good thing.
Later on DataFocus2015 Mr. Mislav Kršulović from Croatian Competition Agency did presentation about "Dawn raid in practice", To my great pleasure this state of art example from real life showed our workshop was very close to reality.