WIDA'09 2009 - WIDA'09 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Information and Data Assurance

WIDA'09
The 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Information and Data Assurance
In conjunction with IEEE IPCCC 2009
Increasing reliance on the Internet for business and commercial purposes and the global availability of information has resulted in a whole suit of problems that are rooted in information assurance. As more and more complex systems evolve, the need for security and data assurance grows even more. Large corporations and research institutions regularly come up with solutions to counter malicious and non-malicious, external and internal threats. However, the field of information assurance is such that new threats evolve on a regular basis and continuous research and innovation is critical to stem the threats that continually arise. Information Assurance can then be defined as the protection and defense of information systems so as to ensure the authenticity, availability, confidentiality, integrity, and non-repudiation of critical data and user credentials. Authentication is a direct approach to information assurance, where the external party is asked to prove its authenticity. This can be achieved by encryption, certification or some previously agreed upon protocol. Confidentiality and integrity cover the areas of data protection by directly modifying the data using encryption or keeping the data in secured backed-up locations. The goal of non-repudiation states that an entity that has proven its identity should also be held responsible for its actions. We seek papers that address theoretical, empirical, experimental and system-related approaches to information assurance. Papers should describe original and previously unpublished work. Additionally, the papers should not be currently under review at other conference, workshop or journals. Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of IPCCC. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Wireless and Ad-hoc Security
Network and Data Restoration
Network Reliability/Availability
Denial of Service Protection
Security system architecture
Optical networks security
Intrusion Detection and Prevention
Sensor network security
Trust negotiation/management
Privacy models and mechanisms
E-commerce security
Man-in-the-middle and other attack analysis
Key management and Cryptography
Botnets detection and response
Authorization, account management and access-control
Web/Internet security
Theoretical and empirical risk analysis
Final Paper Submission Guidelines
Papers should describe original, previously unpublished work, not currently under review by another conference, workshop, or journal. Authors are invited to submit a maximum of 8 page regular papers and 4 page short papers including the abstract, figures and references. Papers should include the title, author(s), authors' affiliation and an abstract. The formatting should be according to IEEE conference style available at: www.computer.org/portal/site/cscps.

Please note that the paper will not be included in conference proceedings if its length exceeds 8 pages. Papers should be submitted in a PDF format using the EDAS system at: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=8175

Program Chairs:
Anurag Gupta (Google Inc) anurag.gupta-AT-ieee.org
Anindo Mukherjee (Google Inc) anindom-AT-gmail.com

Technical Program Committee Members:
Avinash Srinivasan, Bloomsburg University
Dharma Agrawal, University of Cincinnati
Falko Dressler, University of Erlangen
Farid Naït-Abdesselam, University of Lille
Haitang Wang, Motorola Inc.
Hongmei Deng, Intelligent Automation Inc.
Marco Cremonini, Universita` di Milano
Mukesh Singhal, University of Kentucky
Sokratis Katsikas, University of Piraeus
Stephan Eidenbenz, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Tarun Joshi, Microsoft Inc.
Vasilis Friderikos, King's College London
Ye Xia, University of Florida
Yingying Chen, Stevens Institute of Technology
Zhen Jiang, West Chester University of Pennsylvania