OSCE regional training course in Montenegro focuses on combating cybercrime through advanced forensics using Linux

DANILOVGRAD, Montenegro, 20 October 2014 – A five-day regional training course on combating cybercrime in South-Eastern Europe focusing on advanced forensics using Linux, started today in Danilovgrad, Montenegro.

The event is organized by the OSCE Transnational Threats Department, in co-operation with the OSCE Mission to Montenegro and with the support of the Montenegrin Ministry of Interior and the Montenegrin Police Academy.

The advanced technical training course on free digital investigation tools, brings together some 20 law enforcement investigators from South-Eastern Europe who are graduates of the foundation level course and the advanced Linux course facilitated by the OSCE Transnational Threats Department in Belgrade in 2010 and 2011.

The training aims at enhancing the skills of investigators from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia, who deal with highly complex computer crimes. The course places emphasis on IT and computer forensics as well as supporting investigators in networking at the regional level. Upon completion of the course, participants are expected to return to their countries and pass the skills along to their colleagues.

 Nikola Rogosic, the Head of the Verification Unit of the Montenegrin Directorate of Police said: “No doubt, that cyber/ICT security issues are increasingly recognized as one of the main points of discussion on international security and stability in the 21st century. This advanced course is of high importance and will help the officers who deal with complex computer crimes in the region”.

The regional training course will be provided by instructors certified by the University College Dublin as part of EUROPOL’s Cybercrime Training Education Group (ECTEG).