[governance] Call for Paper: International WOrkshop on Cloud Security (IWOCS2014)

Tue Feb 4 06:50:25 EST 2014

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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, Queens 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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