SHCIS 2015 - 2nd Workshop on Security in highly connected IT systems

Modern society over the course of the past two decades developed an increasing dependency on their infrastructures in general, and on the availability and correct functionality of their IT systems in particular. While in the early days of the Internet revolution not many IT systems outside the academic world were directly connected to the Internet, the benefits of internetworking began to prevail by the end of the last millennium. Nowadays, all kinds of IT systems, from industrial control systems to nationwide sensor networks, from high-traffic business platforms to e-health applications, are connected to the Internet and thus directly connected to each other. Such highly connected IT systems exhibit their very own peculiarities and need to be studied accordingly.
In this context, SHCIS’15 aims to bring together IT security researchers and practitioners active in the field of highly-connected IT-systems, with a strong emphasis on interdisciplinary aspects. The focus of the workshop is on diffusion of early and ongoing work, with large room being devoted to presentations of PhD students active in this field and large scale national and international research projects. Suggested topics are aligned along a cyclic IT security process for highly connected IT systems, consisting of the phases “Preventive measures against attacks”, “Defense against ongoing attacks”, and “Forensics and post-mortem examination of relevant IT-security incidents”. The workshop is organized by the Bavarian Research Alliance FORSEC with focus on the security of highly connected IT-Systems (www.bayforsec.de)
Suggested topics should be closely related to highly-connected IT-systems and include, but are not limited to:
Secure distributed architectures
Secure mobile architectures
Secure embedded systems
Security in sensor networks
Secure cloud computing
Code obfuscation
Security economics
Identity and access management
Privacy
Online trust in large-scale systems
Human factors in security and privacy
Digital forensics
Security through virtualization, security in virtualized environments
Security in mobile computing
Detection of security related anomalies
Relevant application areas include, but are not limited to:
Virtualization platforms
Smart grids, smart cities
Social networks
Big data applications
Cloud services
Business applications
Transport and logistics
E-Commerce
Workshop chairs
Günther Pernul, Guido Schryen, Rolf Schillinger
Bavarian Research Alliance FORSEC ? Security of highly-connected IT-Systems
Submission Guideline
Authors are invited to publish original and unpublished research that is not currently in a review process for other workshops, conferences or journals. The focus of the workshop is on diffusion of early and ongoing work, with large room being devoted to presentations of PhD students active in this field and large scale national and international research projects. Papers must be in English and formatted according to the IEEE Proceedings format (description available at Opens external link in new windowhttps://www.ieee.org/). Camera ready versions of the accepted papers must not exceed a length of 5 pages. At least one of the authors has to be attending the workshop to present the paper. Submission will be handled electronically through https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=shcis15.
Important dates
Submission of full papers: May 09, 2015
Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2015
Camera-ready copies due: July 17, 2015
Program committee
Rainer Böhme, University of Münster, Germany
Zinaida Benenson, FAU Erlangen, Germany
Marijke Coetzee, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Jorge Cuellar, Siemens AG, Germany
Steven Furnell, Plymouth University, UK
Benjamin Fabian, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
Carmen Fernandez Gago, University of Madrid, Spain
Danilo Gligoroski, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Martin Gilje Jaatun, SINTEF, Norway
Thomas Kittel, Technical University Munich, Germany
Lambrinoudakis Kostas, University of the Aegean, Greece
Hanna Krasnova, University of Bern, Switzerland
Emil C. Lupu, Imperial College London, UK
Tilo Müller, FAU Erlangen, Germany
Rolf Oppliger, eSecurity Technologies, Switzerland
Moussa Ouedraogo, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg
Hans Reiser, University of Passau, Germany
Heiko Roßnagel, Fraunhofer IAO, Germany
Thomas Schaberreiter, University of Oulu, Finland
Sven Wohlgemuth, CASED Darmstadt, Germany