OSCE continues training Kazakhstan’s government officials to counter cybercrime

An OSCE-supported five-day training seminar on countering cybercrime for representatives of the host country’s governmental institutions and law-enforcement agencies began on 19 October 2015 in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

The event is co-organized by the OSCE Programme Office in Astana, the United States Embassy in Kazakhstan and the Interior Ministry for some 30 officials from the Interior and Justice Ministries, the Prosecutor General’s Office, the State Revenues Committee of the Ministry of Finance, the Agency for Civil Service Affairs and Countering Corruption, and the Almaty Police Academy.

Led by international experts, the Computer and Network Intrusion Course is a follow-up training event for officers who in June 2015 completed the OSCE-supported Basic Investigation of Computers and Electronic Crimes Programme. The officers are in charge of collecting and analysing an assortment of volatile and semi-volatile evidence from computers.

The course aims to provide officials with the skills to respond to most network intrusion investigations. Participants will learn 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 training seminar is part of the OSCE Programme Office’s activities in combating transnational threats, money laundering, financing of terrorism and preventing the abuse of the Internet for criminal purposes.