Von Welch is the Co-Director for Cyber Security at the National Center for Supercomputing Application (NCSA)/University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois. In this role he leads development and application of security technology for clientele spanning the science, engineering, law enforcement and corporate communities. Mr. Welch has worked in cyber security for the past decade, developing new standards and methodologies for distributed and federated security architectures. Prior to working in cyber security, Mr. Welch worked on high-performance networking and networking applications. Mr. Welch is a 1992 graduate of the University of Illinois with a degree in Computer Engineering.

Dr. Welch will discuss APPLING HIGH-TECH SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING SOLUTIONS TO CYBER CRIME INVESTIGATIONS. Funded by the National Science Foundation as one of the premier open supercomputer centers, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois has over 20 years of experience in developing and deploying state of the art high-performance computing, data, network and cyber infrastructure systems for the nation’s scientists and engineers. Due to its vast Internet “store front” and required open nature, NCSA has developed extensive experience working with law enforcement on investigating and responding to cybercrimes. Recently, NCSA has extended the scope of its community engagement to work closely with law enforcement on applying the same technologies and techniques to aid with cybercrime investigations that have solved large-scale computing problems for scientists and engineers. This talk will focus on two such applied research efforts. The first being an USB-based software tool to allow law enforcement officers without cyber expertise to effectively respond to routine cyber incidents they encounter in the course of their job. The second effort is the application of scientific workflow to forensic investigation to allow an investigator to have an accurate record of their investigative activities and to reproduces those activities even after a significant time has elapsed.