ManSec-CC 2012 - First International workshop on Management and Security technologies for Cloud Computing 2012 (ManSec-CC 2012)

First International workshop on
Management and Security technologies for Cloud Computing 2012
(ManSec-CC 2012)
(In conjuction with the 2012 IEEE GlobeCom)
3-7 December, 2012
Disneyland Hotel, Anaheim, California, USA
The last five years Cloud Computing (CC) has generated increasing interest from both industry and academia. The CC, considered a natural evolution of distributed computing and of the widespread adaption of virtualization and SOA, aims to provide as services IT-related capabilities and resources, via the Internet and on-demand, hiding from the resource consumer the underlying technology. However, this new paradigm comes with new challenges and several open issues must be resolved in order to be largely adopted. Ensuring security and quality of service, reliability and accountability, improving large system operation and maintenance are main challenges for this new model. As a result, Security and Management appear as two ecosystems of considerable importance for the CC paradigm, which will further benefit from research and the exploitation of potential synergies.
The ManSec-CC 2012 workshop aims to provide a central forum where researchers and practitioners from security and management domains of cloud-centric and outsourced computing, will converge and deal with the challenges of the CC paradigm.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:
Access Control Management
Artificial Intelligence Approaches to Cloud Computing Management
Auditing, Monitoring and Scheduling
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
Cloud Architectures, Infrastructures and Workflows
Cloud Computing and Network Communications
Cloud Storage, Data Management and Distribution
Cloud-centric Regulatory Compliance Issues and Mechanisms
Copyright Protection in the Cloud
Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks
Energy Management in Cloud Environments
Experimental Platforms that Support Cloud Management Research
Forensics in Cloud Environments
Foundations of Cloud Oriented Threat Models
Intrusion Detection and Prevention
Legal and Regulatory Frameworks for Clouds
Management and Security for Cloud-based Services and Applications
Management of Heterogeneous Clouds
Management of Large Systems
Metrics, Techniques, and Experiments for Evaluating Cloud Management Architectures
Mobility Management in Cloud Environments
Monitoring, Logging and Auditing
Network Security Mechanisms for Clouds
Novel Programming Models for Secure Large Computing
Performance Evaluation for Security Solutions
Policy Based Management of Cloud Systems
Portability, Interoperability and Standards
Practical Cryptographic Protocols for Cloud Security
Practical Privacy Mechanisms for Outsourcing
QoS & Performance Management in Cloud Computing
Resource Discovery, Management and Registration
Robust and Reliable Network Architecture
Scalable and Robust Scheduling on Heterogeneous Architectures
Scalable Fault Resilience Techniques for Large Computing
Secure Cloud Resource Virtualization Mechanisms
Secure Computation and Data Outsourcing
Secure Payment for Cloud Services
Secure Resource Allocation and Indexing
Securing Distributed Data Storage in Cloud
Security and Privacy Policies
Security Model for New Services
Security Risk Assessment Models for Clouds
Self-configuration, Self-healing, Self-monitoring
Service Integration and Management
Service level Agreement and Specifications
Solutions for Big data
Trust and Identity Management for Clouds
Trusted Computing Technology and Secure Hardware for Clouds
Important Dates
Paper Submissions: June 01, 2012
Author’s Notification: August 15, 2012
Camera-ready paper submission: September 15, 2012