OSCE trains law enforcement officials in Kazakhstan on countering cybercrime

An OSCE-supported five-day training seminar on countering cybercrime for representatives of Kazakhstan’s governmental institutions and law-enforcement agencies concluded on 25 May 2018 in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Eighteen officials from the Interior Ministry, the Prosecutor General’s Office and its Law Enforcement Agencies Academy, the Ministry of Justice’s Forensic Centre, Kazakhstan’s Agency for Civil Service Affairs and Anti-corruption, and the State Revenues Committee of the Ministry of Finance took part in the Computer and Network Intrusion Course, which was led by experts from the United States.

The course provided the participants with the skills to guide their colleagues in responding to most network intrusion investigations. Participants learnt about tools and techniques to collect and analyse Random Access Memory, live data, Microsoft Windows registries, log files and event logs as well as network packet information in investigating computers of both victims and suspects involved in cybercrimes. 

The participants, who completed an OSCE-supported Train-the-Trainers course on the Basic Investigation of Computers and Electronic Crimes Programme last year, will teach this course to their peers in the future.  

The event was co-organized by the OSCE Programme Office in Astana, the Office of the International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Office of the United States Embassy in Astana and the Central Asian Regional Information Coordination Centre for Combating Illicit Trafficking of Narcotic Drugs, Psychotropic Substances and their Precursors (CARICC).

The training seminar is part of the OSCE Programme Office’s activities to combat transnational threats, money laundering, financing of terrorism and preventing the abuse of the Internet for criminal purposes.