WRAITS 2012 - 6th Workshop on Recent Advances in Intrusion Tolerance and reSilience WRAITS 2012

6th Workshop on Recent Advances in Intrusion Tolerance and reSilience
WRAITS 2012
In conjunction with The 42nd IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks - DSN 2012
June 25, 2012
Boston, MA, USA
http://www.csr.city.ac.uk/people/ilir.gashi/WRAITS...
OVERVIEW
The 6th edition of the Workshop on Recent Advances on Intrusion Tolerance and reSilince aims to continue the collaborative discourse on the challenges of building intrusion-tolerant systems alongside innovative ideas to address them. As a technical area, Intrusion Tolerance (IT) lies at the intersection of Fault Tolerance and Computer Security. As a practical discipline, it brings in additional topics ranging from software engineering, adaptive system development to reasoning, coordination and control of distributed resources and mechanisms, as well as validation and evaluation of security and survivability claims. Other descriptions used for similar themed research include resilience, survivability, trustworthy systems, byzantine fault tolerance, and autonomic self-healing systems.
Intrusion Tolerance (IT) starts with the premise that software-based components will always contain bugs and misconfigurations that can be discovered, exposed and enabled by the increasingly new ways in which distributed and networked computer systems are being created today. IT acknowledges that it is impossible to detect and prevent all intrusions and attacks. Intrusion tolerant systems therefore must have the means to continue to operate correctly despite attacks and intrusions, still denying the resident attacker/intruder the success they seek. For instance, an intrusion tolerant system under an attack intended to compromise system resources may actively transition non-essential services to a degraded mode in order to sustain critical services and trigger alternative recovery mechanisms. The workshop aims to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to present designs, algorithms and architectures for intrusion tolerance, to discuss new security mechanisms or novel use of existing mechanisms, and to identify open problems or domain-specific considerations in need of further research.
Information about previous editions of WRAITS can be found on the main WRAITS site.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Authors are invited to submit papers to the workshop, which will be held in conjunction with the 42nd IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), June 25-28, 2012. Papers can present ongoing work and/or speculative/futuristic ideas. Experimental results or other forms of validation are especially encouraged. The workshop papers will be published in a supplementary volume of the conference proceedings. Topics of interest related to advances in intrusion-tolerant systems include, but are not limited to:
* Assurance and survivability benefits of hardware and software virtualization
* Assessment and evaluation of intrusion-tolerant systems
* Automatic recovery and response techniques
* Biologically inspired defenses
* Byzantine fault tolerance
* Diversity (software/hardware) and coincident failures
* Defending against botnet herds;
* Effective evaluation of IT systems including red teaming
* Intrusion tolerance in cyber-physical systems and critical infrastructures
* Intrusion-tolerant web-scale systems
* Real world case studies
* Security and Resilience of Service Oriented Systems
* Security and resilience issues of large social computing systems (e.g., gmail and Facebook);
* Security and resilience of large interconnected and critical infrastructure systems (e.g., energy grids, telecoms)
* Survivability and information assurance in the Cloud
* Theoretical limits/boundaries of intrusion tolerance
* Threat of botnet herds and surviving them
More information about the workshop can be obtained by emailing to i.gashi-AT-city.ac.uk , or patrick.kreid-AT-unf.edu
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
The workshop will accept two formats of papers: regular papers (maximum 6 pages) and position papers (maximum 2 pages). Position papers allow researchers to present more speculative/futuristic ideas to stimulate discussion and further work. Papers have to adhere to the IEEE Computer Society camera-ready 8.5''x11'' two-column camera-ready format, like regular DSN papers:
LaTeX Package
Word Template
Each paper should be submitted as a single PDF file through the EasyChair submission website for WRAITS'12:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wraits...
At least one author of an accepted paper must register at the conference and present the paper at the workshop.
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: March 16, 2012
Author notification: April 13, 2012
Final version: May 1, 2012
WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
Ilir Gashi, CSR, City University London, UK
O. Patrick Kreidl, University of North Florida, USA
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Robin Berthier, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Michel Cukier, University of Maryland, USA
Ilir Gashi, City University of London, UK
Ruediger Kapitza, Technische Universitat Braunschweig, Germany
Patrick Kreidl, University of North Florida, USA
Nuno Neves, University of Lisboa, Portugal
Partha Pal, BBN Technologies, USA
Marco Serafini, Yahoo! Research, Spain
Arun Sood, George Mason University, USA
Olivier Thonnard, Symantec Research, France
Paulo Verissimo, University of Lisboa, Portugal
Yu-Sung Wu, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Saman Zonouz, University of Miami, USA
Ilir Gashi
Centre for Software Reliability
City University London
United Kingdom
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