4cast Awards – Votes Close Tomorrow

The Forensic 4cast Awards will take place on Thursday evening in Washington DC (have I mentioned that before?) and the voting closes tomorrow. If you have not yet taken the time to place your votes please do. Most of the voting is EXTREMELY close and one or two votes can make all the difference.

You can place your votes here:

http://forensic4cast.com/2010/06/16/forensic-4cast-awards-2010-voting-is-open/

Happy voting!

Forensic 4cast Awards – Open to All

This is an important update on the Forensic 4cast Awards.

SANS have announced that both the Forensic Challenge Awards and the Forensic 4Cast Awards will be open to anyone that wishes to attend. This will be the case whether or not you are a delegate for the summit.

This is superb news and I’d like to say a huge thankyou to SANS for making this possible. If you’re going to be in the DC area on July 8 2010 please make sure to stop by and attend the awards. If you can’t be in DC for the awards, I would first ask “WHY NOT?” but then I’d console you and tell you not worry too much as SANS are also pushing the awards out by simulcast. We’ll have the link for you closer to the time but that is awesome. This means that you have no excuse to not attend in some capacity.

I’ve also been informed of the possibility of food (this is yet to be confirmed though). Even if the entertainment of the awards doesn’t entice you to come the food should!

This should be an exceptional event as there all kinds of people will be there, from Rob Lee, to Harlan Carvey, to Mark McKinnon. Its your chance to meet these pillars our our community and to commiserate them when someone else wins their awards

The times for the awards are:

• 630 PM Forensic Challenge Awards
• 730 PM Forensic 4Cast Awards

The events will be held at:

Fairmont Washington DC
2401 M Street, NW
Washington, DC 20037

Now, on to the next item of business… anyone out there willing to perform a song or two for the awards?

Forensic 4cast Awards 2010 – Voting is Open

The nominations have been taken and counted and now we have narrowed down the fields to just a few for voting. You will notice that the ‘Blog Article’ entry has not made the cut. This is because so many people nominated different articles that no two nominations were the same. I know this is the risk of running nominations and I may change the format next year.

You will also notice that the categories will have two, three, or four nominees. This is because the nominations were so close. We didn’t want to pick and choose so we’ve just left it all up to you.

Finally. We’ve decided to take the ‘Lifetime Achievement’ award off. We will still be presenting an award for this but it will be at the discretion of Forensic 4cast. This is likely to be the case for this category from now on.

Anyway, as before we’ve asked that you give your name and email address just so that we can stop people from spamming.

Voting will close on July 6 2010. That’s only three weeks so get voting!

Episode 29 – #robleeisagiant

Today we discuss what happened at CEIC, the Guidance acquisition of Tableau, FTK and Guidance releasing new forensic tools, the SANS Forensic Summit, and the Forensic 4cast Awards.