AHAN 2013 - Adaptive Host and Network Security (AHAN 2013)

Over the past decade the threat of cyber attacks on critical commercial and government infrastructure has been growing at an alarming rate to a point where it is now considered to be a major threat in the world. Current approaches to cyber security involve building fast-growing multi-million line systems that attempt to detect and remove attacking software. Meanwhile, cyber exploits continue to multiply in number, but their size continues to be a couple of hundred lines of code. This disparity of effort means that the current defensive approaches to cyber security can at best fight a holding action. The workshop is intended to explore game-changing approaches to cyber security that focus on adaptation. There is a clear need to develop systems at both the host level and the network level to actively adapt to cyber attacks and to provide greater protection for networked computation at all levels. Topic of interest include:
Protecting the host
New OS models for secure hosts
Combining proof, model checking and dynamic monitoring techniques for host security
Meta-level control and monitoring of networks
Use of feedback mechanisms in network operations
Self-monitoring and self-explaining network systems
Self-adaptive and autonomic networking
Centralized versus distributed network control
Measurement of network properties in support of self evaluation
Programming language abstractions to support security
Computational models of network security
Self healing networks
Learning in adaptive networks
Dynamically reprogrammable switches
The use of a Policy-based Network Management system to build self-adaptively secure networks