Netherlands Forensic Institute
The Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI) provides a large variety of forensic services to clients within the
criminal jus-tice chain, such as the Public Prosecution Service and the police. It uses the newest
technologies and scientific in-sights. In this talk, we give an overview of the daily work and forensic
research that takes place at the NFI's Digital Technology group. This work focuses on securing evidence
from a crime scene, making digital data stored in secured evidence available to examiners and doing
detailed analysis of this data. The NFI develops tools and technology to support all three stages.
Erica Rietveld is manager of the Digital Technology and Biometry department of the Netherlands
Forensic Institute (NFI). She graduated in 1983 at TU/e, as MSc in Industrial Engineering. She returned to
TU/e in 2004, teaching IT Governance in the MSc Business Information Systems for 6 years. She cofounded BPM/SaaS-provider Grexx in 2000 and is still a major shareholder. Erica has a broad background
in subjects relating to business & IT.
Harm van Beek is forensic scientist at the Digital Technology and Biometry department of the
Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI). His work consists of performing examinations in criminal cases and
conducting scientific research in the digital forensic field. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in computer
science at the Eindhoven University of Technology on the Ph.D. thesis "Specification and Analysis of
Internet Applications" (2005). Before joining the NFI, he was founder and CTO of ISAAC, a company
dedicated to developing middle-ware and software for the Internet.