CoSec 2010 - Workshop on Collaborative Security Technologies (CoSec 2010)

Workshop on Collaborative Security Technologies (CoSec 2010)
Wed., 15 December, 2010, Bangalore, India
<http://www.cosec-workshop.info/>

in conjunction with the 4th International Conference on Internet
Multimedia Systems Architecture and Application (IMSAA-10)
15-17 December 2010, Bangalore, India
<http://www.imsaa.org/>

Important Dates:
Paper Submission: Sep 21, 2010
Acceptance Notification: Oct 20, 2010
Camera Ready Version: Oct 31, 2010
Date of Workshop: Dec 15, 2010

Scope:
The severity of attacks on networks and critical infrastructures are on the
rise over recent years and seem to continue to do so. Surprisingly at times,
many of the attacks can be individually simple yet highly damaging due to
their large-scale co-ordination and polymorphic replication with continuous
self-upgradation using a mix of peer-to-peer and command-and-control
architectures. Conventional approaches of single-hosted security defensives
are becoming increasingly less effective in the face of such sophisticated
and co-ordinated multi-front attacks using bot-nets of compromised always-
on, always-connected computers. In contrast, a distributed defense pattern
(not very different from multi-front attacks) shows promise both in terms of
manageability, reduced operating costs and architectural simplicity. This
broad area of defense using Collaborative Security technologies works on the
principles of sharing
- information and knowledge for accelerating detection of and response to

new attacks and threats;
- resources for increasing the efficiency and reducing resource consumption.
The 2nd International workshop on Collaborative Security Technologies aims to
bring to forefront the innovative approaches that involve the use of
collaborative methods for security and privacy. The central theme of this
workshop is to focus attention on the collaborative and intelligent approaches
towards design of security systems so as to make them more robust, energy-
efficient and reliable. The 2010 workshop follows on the success of the 2009
workshop which published 4 long and 5 short papers out of 30 submissions.

We invite papers in the following aspects of Collaborative Security
technologies. Researchers are welcome to submit papers in relevant security
domains (not included here), which highlight collaborative aspects for
security design, enforcement or management.

- Collaborative approaches for Authentication, Authorization, Accounting and
Audit systems
- Collaborative approaches for enhancing User Privacy
- Collaborative defence against DDoS attacks
- Collaboration based Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems
- Collaborative Identity Management
- Collaborative Vulnerability Analysis and Fraud Detection
- Collaboration in Sensor Network security
- Collaborative security for Self-Organizing Networks
- Collaborative approaches against web-based attack (phishing etc) detection

and protection
- Collaborative malware detection and quarantining; e.g. based on Social

Networking
- Collaborative Policies definition and enforcement across administrative

boundaries
- Collaborative responsibility for Privacy enforcement of multi-domain

information
- Collaborative forensics
- Collaboration within Govt. and Public Safety organizations against national

security concerns
- Collaborative or Distributed security protocols
- Augmentation methods for review of Security logs and information from multiple

sources

2010 Special Session: Cloud Computing
This year, the CoSec workshop aims to have a special session focusing on Cloud
Computing-related security challenges and how Collaborative security approaches
can be applied for building more secure cloud infrastructure.

Panels:
Proposals for panel discussions are solicited and should be sent to the
Panel chair.

For more information please visit the conference web pages at
<http://www.cosec-workshop.info/>

Accepted papers will be published in the Conference proceedings and will appear
in IEEE Xplore digital library.

The workshop welcomes papers in the standard double- column, IEEE format, but
in 10 pt font, and no longer than 6 pages (including all figures and references).
Paper submission will be handled electronically via EDAS <http://edas.info/N9201>

Important Dates:
Paper Submission: Sep 21, 2010
Acceptance Notification: Oct 20, 2010
Camera Ready Version: Oct 31, 2010
Date of Workshop: Dec 15, 2010

Organizing Committee:
Anand R. Prasad, NEC Corporation, Japan.
Valtteri Niemi, Nokia Corporation, Switzerland.

Technical Committee:
Samir Saklikar, RSA, The Security Division of EMC, India.
Jaydip Sen, Tata Consultancy Services, India.
Dengguo Feng, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.

Panel Chair:
Neeli R. Prasad, Aalborg University, Denmark.

Advisory Committee:
Subir Saha, RiT, India.

Publication Committee:
Masayuki Terada, NTT DoCoMo, Japan.
Andreas U. Schmidt, Novalyst, Germany.
Marcus Wong, Huawei, USA.
Jing Xu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

IEEE IMSAA Workshop Chair:
Girija Narlikar, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, India.

Technical Committee :
Abhilasha Bhargav, Intel Corporation
Alexis Olivereau, CEA LIST
Alf Zugenmaier, Munich University of Applied Sciences
Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, BRAC University
Anil Sarje, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India
Arpan Pal, Tata Consultancy Services
Bogdan Carbunar, Motorola Labs
Gaurang Mehta, USC Information Sciences Institute
Gina Kounga, HP Labs
Inhyok Cha, InterDigital Communications LLC
John Buford, Avaya Labs Research
Julien Laganier, QUALCOMM Incorporated
Kostas Pentikousis, Huawei Technologies
Mahesh Tripunitara, University of Waterloo
Neeli Prasad, Aalborg University
Paulo Mendes, INESC Porto
Peter Reiher, UCLA
Prof. Garg, IIT Roorkee
Ramon Aguero, University of Cantabria
Selim Aissi, Intel Corporation
Shrisha Rao, International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore
Soumya Roy, Infinera
Thilo Ewald, NEC Europe Ltd.
Vipin Pavithran, Amrita University
Xiaotao Wu, Avaya Labs Research
Yogendra Shah, InterDigital Communications Corp.