 Good morning ladies and gentlemen a Very warm welcome to all of you in IGCI Singapore As all of you are aware cybercrime has been a major concern for law enforcement agencies for years now and It is consistent constantly emerging and becoming more and more sophisticated We all feel that there is a need to build capacity in all law enforcement agencies in our member countries Interpol has been supporting its membership through providing operational and forensic support strategy support research support and through capacity building efforts The capacity building efforts in cyberspace by Interpol have so far included national cyber reviews to identify the gap areas designing of standardized training curricula and Delivery of trainings as Another step in this direction Digital security challenge was planned in this kind of an event law enforcement agencies will have an opportunity to team up Join forces and work together to solve the cybercrime cases presented to them This digital security challenge will present to all of you participants a cybercrime scenario Which you will be expected to solve The teams will collect and present their evidence before a panel consisting of prosecutors from at or knees at on the general Chambers of Singapore The teams will be required to solve the case by making use of their own experience of cybercrime investigations and skills to effectively manipulate digital forensic tools We expect that through this digital security challenge participants who face and tackle tough cybercrime challenges are able to engage in Hands-on sessions and are able to experiment first-hand with members of their team to solve cybercrime scenarios and thereby hone their skills and expertise Expand your investigative IQ learn actionable tips and tricks to stop cyber adversaries Grow your law enforcement contact share knowledge and best practices with other cybercrime investigators digital forensic practitioners Gain access to knowledge from outside of your organization and enhance your own unit's capability and Gain an opportunity to learn the latest trends in the field of cybercrime and Utilize the knowledge in making better decisions through training sessions We have received an overwhelming response to this event and we have received registrations from 78 participants from 33 countries in one region These are the countries from which we have received registrations most of them have Have come and we are still awaiting some more people. Hopefully they'll be joining us very soon The scenario the cybercrime scenario which has been planned for this has been created for this has been will be explained in the Flag of session which will be which has been planned after the coffee break The cyber defense Institute and NEC has played a pivotal role in development of this scenario The digital security challenge will include the involvement of different stakeholders like private sector companies working in digital security and forensic fields academia and research organizations to provide training tools to the participants as Part of the digital security challenge we felt that knowledge and experience and expertise from private sector academia and research Organizations would be of great value to the participants in solving cybercrime both here in the exercise As well as back in your organizations therefore training presentation sessions on relevant digital forensics and Cyber investigation topics have been scheduled and planned to be delivered during this event The external entities which are scheduled to deliver their training presentation during this event are on the day Two that is tomorrow in the afternoon. We'll have sessions from trend micro and University College Dublin on The day three morning. We'll have sessions from magnet forensics and institute info com research, Singapore On day three in the afternoon. We'll have presentation from MSAB and Interpol cyber research lab on bitcoins On day four in the morning. We'll have presentations from NEC and Celebrite In addition to these entities Financial and technology crime division at Orney General's chamber of Singapore has kindly agreed to support this activity from their viewpoint as prosecutors All of you would have received the copies of agenda On the first day of the digital security challenge all participants will gather in the auditorium and after the coffee break and they will be briefed on the case as well as what they are required to investigate and The rules of the digital security challenge that is do's and don'ts scoring method, etc After lunch the participants would be divided into teams and they will move to their assigned meeting rooms During the investigation exercise, they will work as a team and investigate the case at their own pace The advisory board will monitor the progress of each team from the management office and help them if necessary The digital security challenge has been broken into a set of missions and the progress on solving missions would be monitored by the management team The investigation exercise will continue until the third day and as soon as the investigation is completed The teams would be expected to work on preparing a prosecution report which would be submitted to the judge panel On the final day of the event each team will be invited to auditorium individually And representatives of each team will present their prosecution report in front of the mock code The panel judging team will listen to each presentation and ask questions to clarify how accurately they investigated the case Presentation from each team would be around 15 minutes which would include 10 minutes of presentation and 5 minutes of question and answer session Once all the teams have presented their prosecution reports, the digital security challenge operational team will evaluate the whole activities in collaboration with the judge team And evaluate the work done by each team during the investigation as well as the prosecution report and determine the winner of the digital security challenge All teams will gather in the auditorium again and the winning team will be requested to make the presentation of prosecution report before all the teams The digital security challenge will end with the award ceremony I would now request our Executive Director Mr. Noboru Nakatani to deliver his welcome speech