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SHCIS ’14 - 1st Workshop on Security in highly connected IT systems

                    Held in parallel with

   11th International Conference on Trust, Privacy & Security in

                Digital Business - TrustBus 2014

                 (http://dexa.org/trustbus2014)

              Munich, Germany, September 1-5, 2014

(Online version of this call is available at

http://www.dexa.org/files/2014/CfP_SHICS14_2.pdf)

    

Modern society over the course of the past two decades developed

an increasing dependency on their infrastructures in general, and

on the availability and correct functionality of their IT systems

in particular. While in the early days of the Internet revolution

not many IT systems outside the academic world were directly

connected to the Internet, the benefits of internetworking began

to prevail by the end of the last millennium. Nowadays, all kinds

of IT systems, from industrial control systems to nationwide sensor

networks, from high-traffic business platforms to e-health

applications, are connected to the Internet and thus, directly

connected to each other. Such highly connected IT systems exhibit

their very own peculiarities and need to be studied accordingly.

 

In this context, SHCIS’14 has two different, yet closely related

goals. Firstly, the organizers of this workshop want to bring

together IT security alliances and institutions with their global

counterparts in order to strengthen collaboration and sharing of

knowledge and research results between these entities.

FORSEC (http://www.bayforsec.de/) and Secure Business Austria

(http://www.sba-research.org) in particular, have committed

themselves to participating in this workshop by providing

members of the program committee as well as planning to contribute

through participation and publications.

In addition to FORSEC and Secure Business Austria, we cordially

invite participants from other national and international IT

security alliances and institutions.

Secondly, SHCIS’14 aims to bring together IT security researchers

and practitioners in the area of highly connected IT systems, with

a strong emphasis on interdisciplinary aspects. The focus on the

workshop is on diffusion of ongoing work and currently running

research projects. Suggested topics are aligned along a cyclic IT

security process for highly connected IT systems, consisting of the

following phases:

- Preventive measures against attacks

- Defense against ongoing attacks

- Forensics and post-mortem examination of IT-security incidents

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

- Secure distributed architectures

- Secure mobile architectures

- Secure embedded systems

- Security in sensor networks

- Secure cloud computing

- Code obfuscation

- Security Economics

- Identity management

- Privacy

- Online trust

- Human factors in security and privacy

- Digital forensics

- Security through virtualization, security in virtualized environments

- Security in mobile computing

- Detection of security related anomalies

Relevant application areas include, but are not limited to:

- Virtualization platforms

- Smart grids, smart cities

- Social networks

- Big data

Workshop chairs

- Prof. Dr. Günther Pernul, Chair of Information Science I - Information Systems, University of Regensburg

- Prof. Dr. Guido Schryen, Department of Management Information Systems, University of Regensburg

Submission Guideline

Authors are invited to publish original and unpublished research

that is not currently in a review process for other workshops,

conferences or journals. Papers must be in English and formatted

according to the IEEE Proceedings format (description available at

http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting). Camera ready

versions of the accepted papers must not exceed a length of 5 pages.

At least one of the authors has to be attending the workshop to

present the paper. All accepted papers will be published in the

proceedings of DEXA’14 Workshops with IEEE CSP. Submissions will be

handled electronically through https://confdriver.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/dexa2014.

The site will be operating by mid February 2014.

 

Important dates

Submission of full papers: March 31, 2014

Notification of acceptance: April 28, 2014

Camera-ready copies due: May 31, 2014

Program committee

tba.