RSA Talk 2014

On the 7^th of March 2014, Friday, the executive chairman and vice-president of RSA, Arthur Coviellio, came to TP to share about the history of technology and how it will develop in the future. It was really amazing to know how much technology has developed throughout the years and improved the lives of everyone.

He even shared with us that in the near future, even the blind will be able to see due to the advancement of technology. This shows how technology can improve the lives of many people.

However, advancement of technology can also cause destruction to people’s lives and that is where cyber security comes in. To prevent malicious people from attacking people’s assets. The skills we learned, we can use it to do good or bad but if we used it to do good, it will greatly improve the lives of everyone hence we should always put our skills to good use.

We really thank Mr Arthur Coviellio to take his time to come and share with us and we would also like to thank the people who came and attend the talk. It was really a talk that should not be missed! 

ACE Certification Workshop 2014

On the 28^th February 2014 and 3^rd March 2014, we had the ACE Certification Workshop taught by the DFS seniors who have taken the ACE Certification. 23 people passed the test on 28^th February and 12 people passed on 3^rd March. However, there are a total of 56 people from DFS who are ACE Certified of which 23 are seniors and 33 are juniors. Congratulations to all of them.

ACE Certification is actually a free certification which is to be taken online. It is a 90 minutes test of 40 MCQ questions. However, the test have both theory and practical questions. The practical questions will make use of FTK, FTK Imager, Registry Viewer and PRTK to analyse a given image. However, other than FTK Imager, the other three tools need license and TP has the license. Hence, if anyone wants to take the certification, please let those people who are certified know or wait for the next workshop planned by the juniors who are certified.

Lastly, we would like to thank some people. First of all, we would like to thank Gerald who created a VM with all the tools installed for the ACE Certification. There were also a set of notes given to the students which was done by the first batch of seniors who took the ACE certification so thanks to all of them namely Cherri Chew, Crystal Tan, Jerlyn Peh, Kiki Yuen, Verbena Ong, Gerald Quek, Jordan Chong, Khairul Anwar and Tan Zhen Yong. We would also like to thank Derek, Charmine and Mr Lim for setting up the laptops for the instructors. Not to forget Ms Lock and Mr Seah for helping us to open the doors to SITSA Lab. Thanks to them or we would be stuck outside the lab. Last but not least, we would like to thank all the helpers for helping out in this workshop namely Charmine Kee, Siti Nur’ Aliah, Ashari Adnan, Derek Chan, Gerald Quek, Tan Zhen Yong and Verbena Ong and also thanks to all the students who attended the workshop during the holidays! Thanks everyone! 

Happy Holidays! :D