UBIC (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo, President: Masahiro Morimoto), which is listed on the US Stock Exchange Mothers, has announced that the Digital Forensics Study Group (Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, Chairman, Ryoichi Sasaki) ) Received the "Japanese Research and Development Award" and "Dissemination / Encouragement Award".
Both awards were created to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the study group.In the last 10 years, the field of digital forensics in Japan has changed from the era of catching up with the United States to the era of leading the United States, and in response to that momentum, we have established a system to further back up the study group and promote digital forensics. I would like to build it.

Walk with the study group and demonstrate its usefulness in practice

Digital forensics refers to the preservation of evidence and investigation and analysis of electromagnetic records in response to incident responses (corresponding to unauthorized use of computers and networks, denial of service, unintended disclosure of information, etc.) and legal disputes and proceedings. It is a series of scientific research methods and techniques that perform analysis and information collection regarding tampering and damage.The Digital Forensics Study Group was established in 2004 with the aim of popularizing and developing this technology (started in 2005 as an NPO corporation).So far, various study groups / seminars, symposiums / events, and publication of books related to digital forensics have been repeated, and as of August 2013, the number of member companies has reached 8 and the number of members has reached 46.

Our company was founded in 2003.Since then, it has consistently contributed to the development of digital forensics technology, and in particular, its strength is in the field of evidence collection and narrowing down (predictive coding) to support international litigation of Japanese companies.So far, we have supported more than 310 international litigation, conducted internal investigations of more than 725 companies, welcomed more than 700 forensic training trainees from government agencies and private companies, and dispatched many engineers mainly from major companies. I've been doing it.So to speak, our company's progress in promoting the penetration and development of digital forensic technology, which was not well known in Japan, is the history of the study group itself.

We believe that the significance of our business development and awarding in step with the study group is that we have established practical technologies and methods in the field of e-discovery (electronic discovery) rather than legal theory.In addition, I am confident that the establishment of this technology and method, which has not been "domestic" due to the delay in Japanese data analysis, will greatly contribute to the support of Japanese companies whose international exchange will become more active in the future.

We are at the forefront of realizing artificial intelligence functions originally developed in the legal technology field, and will continue to strive for newer and deeper technology development in the digital forensics field.

Outline of Digital Forensics Study Group, a specified non-profit organization

Location

1-23-1 Higashigotanda, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo Focus Gotanda 2nd Building 6F

President

Ryoichi Sasaki (Professor, Tokyo Denki University)

Member

46 member companies, 214 members

Accepting Practices

• Enlightenment and dissemination of digital forensics for government agencies and private companies
• Academic and international research in law and engineering related to digital forensics
• Research and development of digital forensic methods and tools
• International standardization research on digital forensics
• Overseas trend survey and case study survey on digital forensics
• Workshop on digital forensics