CSP 2012 - BUILDING TRUST IN THE INFORMATION AGE Summer School in Computer Security and Privacy

BUILDING TRUST IN THE INFORMATION AGE
Summer School in Computer Security and Privacy
Cagliari, Italy, August 27-31 2012
http://comsec.diee.unica.it/summer-school
* REGISTRATION OPEN *
* Deadline March 31, 2012 *
* LECTURERS *
- Lorenzo Cavallaro - Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
- Pierangela Samarati - Universit¨¤ degli Studi di Milano, Italy
- Dawn Song - UC Berkeley, California, USA
- Edgar R. Weippl - Vienna University of Technology, Austria
* TOPICS *
- Computer Security: Where we are, Where we are going
- Security of the Infrastructure of Application Service Providers
- Security of User's Devices and Applications
- Privacy in emerging scenarios
* DESCRIPTION *
The tasks of creating, transmitting, processing and storing any kind
of information are more and more demanded to computers. People
communicate with each other through email, instant messages, social
networks platforms. Business relations between people and organizations, between citizens and public offices are carried out through computers.
It turns out that the introduction of personal computers and the
diffusion of Internet allowed a rapid and disruptive change in the way the society is organized and lives.
Each individual is immersed in a continuous information flow that
turns the solid foundations of life of individuals and societies into a liquid state.
The benefits of instant communication are counterbalanced by the evil
effects of immaterial communication, as for the human being is quite difficult to weight the value of information.
This is quite clear to criminal organizations that found easy and safe to steal virtual money.
The scenario is evolving quite rapidly as soon as information are
processed and stored somewhere in the cloud and the users access the
information via mobile devices. It turns out that security is a quite
challenging task both from a technical and social viewpoint. Security
enables trust, and trust is the foundation of society. As much as we rely on computers for information exchange, security issues should be the first concerns to be addressed.
* ORGANIZERS *
Giorgio Giacinto, Davide Ariu, Igino Corona - University of Cagliari,
Italy
* SUPPORTED BY *
GIRPR
IEEE-CS-Italy