[FM-India] Call for Paper: International WOrkshop on Cloud Security (IWOCS2014)

Madhavan Mukund madhavan at cmi.ac.in
Tue Feb 4 17:26:02 IST 2014


 From: Fulvio Frati <fulvio.frati at unimi.it>
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 Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2014 12:46:43 +0100
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 International WOrkshop on Cloud Security (IWOCS)
 
  
 
 Hosted by the Third ASE International Conference on Cyber Security -
 Stanford, CA, USA, May 27 - May 31, 2014
 
 http://www.scienceengineering.org/ase/conference/2014/cybersecurity/sanjose/
 website/cloudsecurity-workshop/ 
 
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 Description
 
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 Cloud technology offers a powerful and fast growing approach to the
 provision of infrastructure, platform and software services without the high
 costs of owning, operating and maintaining the computational infrastructures
 required for this purpose. However, despite its appeal from the economic,
 operational and even energy consumption perspectives, cloud technology still
 raises concerns regarding the security, privacy, governance and compliance
 of the data and software services offered through it. These concerns arise
 from the difficulty to verify security properties of the different types of
 applications and services available through cloud technology and the
 uncertainty of the owners and users of such services about the security of
 their services, and of the applications based on them, once they are
 deployed and offered through a cloud. This difficulty stems from both the
 fact that the provision and security of a cloud service is sensitive to
 potential interference between the features and behaviour of all the
 inter-dependent services in all layers of the cloud stack, as well as
 dynamic changes in them; and the fact that current cloud models and
 infrastructure do not provide adequate support for controlling the behaviour
 of cloud software and for managing the decoupling of evolution cycles of the
 different software components, both applications and services, which happens
 in these scenarios. In this setting, system evolution, an inherent process
 in most computing systems, has an important impact on the security,
 resilience and quality of the cloud. In this line certification and other
 assurance approaches become crucial for establishing the necessary trust
 relationships. Likewise, novel testing mechanisms, engineering approaches,
 formal modelling paradigms, monitoring models, runtime support
 infrastructures, secure dynamic application building and service
 orchestration approaches, etc. are needed in order to fill other gaps and to
 restore the missing trust links in these new scenarios. The workshop will
 provide a forum for presenting research results, practical experiences, and
 innovative ideas in security infrastructures and applications for cloud
 computing. The workshop will focus on Cloud Computing security, how users of
 Cloud systems can be educated to maintain the security posture of their
 systems, and how to improve the state of the art of Cloud Computing. The
 workshop will also look at the need to facilitate research and development
 of the next generation of Cloud Computing security standards and tools to
 assist in the creation of better, more secure systems.
 
  
 
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 Important Dates
 
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             Paper Submissions 15-03-2014
 
             Notification for Authors 01-04-2014
 
             Camera Ready Deadline 07-05-2014
 
             Workshop Dates 27-05-2014
 
  
 
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 List of Topics
 
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             Secure Virtualization Structures
 
             Privacy Enforcement for cloud applications, platforms and
 operations
 
             Monitoring systems for cloud infrastructure/platform
 applications
 
             Cloud security architecture and protocol
 
             Data protection and secured information sharing in the cloud
 
             Evolution of multi-tenant monitoring as a function of the
 number of tenants.
 
             Intra- and inter-cloud security issues and considerations
 
             Privacy policy framework for clouds
 
             Access control mechanisms and trust models for cloud services
 
             Energy/cost/efficiency of security in clouds
 
             Secure Mobile Cloud Networking
 
             Content and Service Distribution
 
             Security Certification for cloud
 
             Security Engineering for cloud
 
  
 
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 Organization
 
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 Workshop chairs
 
  
 
             ANTONIO MUÑOZ, University of Málaga, Spain
 
             ERNESTO DAMIANI, University of Milan, Italy
 
  
 
 Program Committee
 
  
 
             ALCARAZ-CALERO, JOSE M., Hewlett-Packard, UK
 
             ANTON DEL PINO, PABLO, U. of Málaga, Spain
 
             BEZZI, MICHELE, SAP, France
 
             BOYD, COLIN, Queensland U. of Tech., Australia
 
             COLLBERG, CHRISTIAN, Arizona University, USA
 
             CUELLAR, JORGE, Siemens, Germany
 
             DAVIDS, CAROL, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
 
             DUSIT NIYATO, Nanyang Technological U., Singapore
 
             ENDICOTT-POPOVSKY, BARBARA, U. of Washington, USA
 
             FERNANDEZ, EDUARDO B., Florida Atlantic U., USA
 
             GIORGINI, PAOLO, University of Trento, Italy
 
             GRAWROCK, DAVID, Intel, USA
 
             GÜRGENS, SIGRID, Fraunhofer SIT, Germany
 
             JÜRJENS, JAN, TU of Dortmund, Germany
 
             KIYOMOTO, SHINSAKU, KDDI R&D Labs, Japan
 
             LAMBRINOUDAKIS, COSTAS, U. of Piraeus, Greece
 
             LAURENCE T. YANG, St Francis Xavier University, Canada
 
             LEVI, ALBERT, Sabanci University, Turkey
 
             LOEVENICH, DANIEL, Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der
 Informationstechnik (BSI), Germany
 
             LOSAVIO, MICHAEL, U. of Kentucky, USA
 
             LOTZ, VOLKMAR, SAP AG, France
 
             MAÑA, ANTONIO, University of Malaga, Spain
 
             MARTINELLI, FABIO, CNR-IIT, Italy
 
             MARTINEZ-PEREZ, GREGORIO, U. of Murcia, Spain
 
             NADARAJAM, R., PSG College of Technology, India
 
             POSEGGA, JOAQUM, U. of Passau, Germany
 
             PRESENZA, DOMENICO, Engineering, Italy
 
             QUISQUATER, JEAN-JACQUES, U. Catholique De Louvain, Belgium
 
             RAY, INDRAKSHI, Colorado State University, USA
 
             RUDOLPH, CARSTEN, Fraunhofer SIT, Germany
 
             SABETTA, ANTONINO, SAP, France
 
             SORIA-RODRIGUEZ, PEDRO, ATOS R&D, Spain
 
             SKIANIS CHARALABOS, University of Aegean, Greece
 
             SPANOUDAKIS, GEORGE, City University, UK
 
             WASHIZAKI, HIRONORI, Waseda University, Japan
 
             WESPI, ANDREAS, IBM, Switzerland
 
             YOSHIOKA, NOBUKAZU, Nat. I. of Informatics, Japan
 
             ZULKERNINE, MOHAMMAD, Queen's U., Canada
 
  
 
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 Submissions
 
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 Authors are invited to submit Regular Papers (maximum 8 pages) or Short
 Papers (maximum 4 pages) using EasyChair. Regular papers will be evaluated
 according to normal research conference criteria with respect to relevance,
 originality, and quality of the methodology and writing. Work that is highly
 novel, controversial, or preliminary can be submitted as a short paper.
 
 Proceedings of IWOCS 2014 will be included in the third ASE International
 Conference on Cyber Security, Stanford, CA, USA, May 27 - May 31, 2014.
 
  
 
 Registration: Online Registration
 
  
 
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 Implementation Plan
 
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 IWOCS will have a hybrid approach that will combine a traditional scientific
 workshop with an interactive forum for discussion of the main workshop
 topics, seeking the creation of a community and a clear focus on producing.


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