[FM-India] CFP: 2nd International Workshop on Security Assurance in the Cloud (IWSAC 2014)

Madhavan Mukund madhavan at cmi.ac.in
Wed Jun 18 06:02:43 IST 2014


 Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 18:09:36 +0200
 From: Fulvio Frati <fulvio.frati at unimi.it>
 To: fmindia at cmi.ac.in
 Subject: CFP: 2nd International Workshop on Security Assurance in the Cloud  (IWSAC 2014)
 
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 CALL FOR PAPERS
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 SECOND INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SECURITY ASSURANCE IN THE CLOUD
 (IWSAC 2014)
 
 Held in conjunction with the 10th International Conference on Signal
 Image Technology & Internet Based Systems (SITIS 2014) One day
 between November 23-27, 2014, Marrakech, Morocco Web site:
 http://sesar.di.unimi.it/IWSAC2014
 
 IWSAC 2014 BACKGROUND AND GOALS
 
 The ongoing merge between Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs) and the
 Cloud computing paradigm provides a new environment fostering the
 integration of services located within company boundaries with those in the
 Cloud. An increasing number of organizations implement their business
 processes and applications via runtime composition of services made
 available in the Cloud by external suppliers. This scenario is changing the
 traditional view of security introducing new service security risks and
 threats, and requires re-thinking of current assurance, development,
 testing, and verification methodologies. In particular, security assurance
 in the cloud is becoming a pressing need to increase the confidence of the
 cloud actors that the cloud and its services are behaving as expected, and
 requires novel approaches addressing SOA and cloud peculiarities. IWSAC 2014
 is the continuation of the International Workshop on Securing Services on
 the Cloud, held in September 2011, Milan, Italy. It aims to address the
 security assurance issues related to the deployment of services in the
 Cloud, along with evaluating their impact on traditional security solutions
 for software and network systems.
 
 The workshop seeks submissions from academia and industry presenting novel
 research on all theoretical and practical aspects of security and assurance
 of services implemented in the Cloud, as well as experimental studies in
 Cloud infrastructures, the implementation of services, and lessons learned.
 Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
 
 * Authentication and access control in the cloud
 * Challenges in moving critical systems to the cloud
 * Cloud accountability
 * Cloud audit
 * Cloud compliance
 * Cloud certification
 * Cloud transparency, introspection, and outrospection
 * Cybersecurity in the cloud
 * Data security and privacy in the Cloud
 * Information assurance and trust management
 * Intrusion detection in the Cloud
 * Security assurance in the cloud
 * Security and assurance protocols in the Cloud
 * Service level agreements
 * Service procurement in the cloud
 * Service verification in critical cloud services
 * Test-based and monitoring-based verification of cloud services
 
 IMPORTANT DATES
 
 Paper submission due: September 6, 2014 (11:59 PM American Samoa time)
 Notification to authors: October 1, 2014 Camera-ready due: October 15, 2014
 Registration due: October 19, 2014
 
 SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
 
 Submissions must not substantially overlap papers that have been published
 or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or conference/workshop
 with proceedings. Each submission should be at most
 
 8 pages in total including bibliography and well-marked appendices, and must
 follow the IEEE double columns publication format available at
 
 - [Microsoft Word DOC]
 ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/instructA4x2.doc
 
 - [LaTex Formatting Macros]
 ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/IEEE_CS_LatexA4x2.zip
 
 A maximum of 2 extra pages can be purchased for the final version of the
 accepted papers.
 
 Submissions are to be made to the submission web site
 https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sitis2014 by selecting track
 "Workshop on Security Assurance in the Cloud". Only pdf files will be
 accepted. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without
 consideration of their merits.
 
 Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be
 presented at the workshop. At least one author of each accepted paper is
 required to register with the main conference and present the paper.
 
 Accepted papers at the workshop will be published in the conference
 proceedings and in the IEEE digital library.
 
 Extended version of selected accepted papers will be considered for
 publication in a journal special issue (TBC).
 
 IWSAC 2014 COMMITTEES AND CHAIRS
 
 General Chair (SITIS General Chair)
 
 * Ernesto Damiani, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy
 
 Program Chairs
 
 * Marco Anisetti, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy
 * Claudio A. Ardagna, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy
 * Rasool Asal, British Telecommunications, UK/UAE
 
 Publicity Chair
 
 * Valerio Bellandi, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy
 * Fulvio Frati, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy
 
 Web Chair
 
 * Fulvio Frati, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy
 
 Program Committee
 
 * Rafael Accorsi, University of Freiburg, Germany
 * Valerio Bellandi, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy
 * Michele Bezzi, SAP, France
 * Mauro Conti, University of Padua, Italy
 * Nora Cuppens-Boulahia, Telecom Bretagne, France
 * Ernesto Damiani, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy
 * Eduardo Fernandez, Florida Atlantic University, USA
 * Atsuhiro Goto, Institute of Information Security, Japan
 * Nils Gruschka, NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany
 * Patrick Hung, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada
 * Meiko Jensen, Southern Denmark University, Denmark
 * Florian Kerschbaum, SAP, Germany
 * Nicolas Larrieu, ENAC, France
 * Antonio Mana, Universidad de Malaga, Spain
 * Siani Pearson, HP Labs, UK
 * George Spanoudakis, City University of London, UK
 
 This call for papers and additional information about the conference can be
 found at http://sesar.di.unimi.it/iwsac2014


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