CIFS 2020 - 2nd International Workshop on Cloud, IoT and Fog Systems (and Security) — CIFS 2020

Sensors and actuators are becoming pervasive. From empowering smart agri-tech, to cities, to even our own households, sensors and IoT are revolutionizing all dimensions of computing. With advancements in low energy communication standards, low energy computing - from message encodings, to on-the-fly encryption, etc. we are seeing emergence of new paradigms such as Fog, Serverless and Continuum computing which are empowered by high capacity core networks and large datacenters thrown in the mix. Such a scheme of things creates new opportunities but also are rife with challenges which must be overcome. This workshop aims to discuss recent advances around holistic security, deployment modes, communication mediums, line protocols, data collection, and multi-level processing and application development in such systems.
Topics of Interest
We solicit research papers (up to 6p) and technical industry reports (typically 3-6p) on the following topics:
Secure cloud computing concepts (homomorphic encryption, enclaves, hardware security modules, stealth computing among others)
Long-term distributed data storage security and proof-of-ownership/provision/retrievability
End-to-end security concepts across IoT-fog-cloud continuums
Physical and digital security of IoT deployments, smart meters and other end devices
Privacy and economics considerations as well as trade-offs
Risks and threats including spoofing, identity manipulation and distortion
Audit facilities and compliance mechanisms
Cross-border, cross-provider and cross-stack security issues
Human factors: simplicity and controllability of security measures
Applications in digitalised health care, ecology, agriculture and other fields