[IWSAC 2014] Submission deadline extended: September 30, 2014

***Submission deadline extended to September 30, 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

EXTENDED Paper submission due: September 30, 2014 (11:59 PM American Samoa
time) *FIRM*

Notification to authors: October 9, 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

* William M. Fitzgerald, EMC Information Systems International, Ireland

* 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