BOCE 2018 - 1st International Workshop on Blockchain-Oriented Cybersecurity Engineering (BOCE 2018)

The 1st International Workshop on Blockchain-Oriented Cybersecurity Engineering (BOCE 2018) will be held in conjunction with 2018 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (http://cse.stfx.ca/~blockchain2018/index.php) in Halifax- Canada from 30th Jul to 3rd Aug 2018, and aims to unite scholars, practitioners, and innovative startups from all relevant cybersecurity disciplines who work and study in the space of blockchain technology.
Objectives and Scope:
Cybersecurity is a pressing need of governments, businesses, and individuals that gets utmost priority for enforcement in almost any organizations. Rapid advances are being made in blockchain technology (both in the number of published papers and the number of active researchers) with broadly diverse applications that promise to better meet business and individual security needs. Almost any article on blockchain will point out that the cybersecurity could be revitalized if it is supported with blockchain technology. Blockchain as a popular ledger technology has the potential to be leveraged in different aspects of cyber security, digital forensics, cyber threat hunting and cyber threat intelligence. Blockchain characteristics such as decentralization, verifiability and immutability may revolve current cyber security mechanisms for ensuring authenticity, reliability and integrity of data.
In order for its value to be practically and scientifically realized, the Workshop’s goal is to provide a sampling of recent advances and ideas on progresses of research and the practical usage of blockchain technologies and smart contracts in addressing cyber security, forensics, cyber threat hunting and intelligence challenges and issues. The scope for this workshop will be the retrospective study of past trends and the current state of blockchain-oriented cybersecurity in a clear context, allowing to imagine and then create future vectors in this specific domain. Of special interests are blockchain-based secure data management implementations addressing privacy, integrity and other crucial security and forensics requirements.
Topics:
Workshop suggested topics include, not exhaustively, empirical and theoretical studies of the following:
· Blockchain-based authentication, authorization and accounting mechanisms
· Applications of blockchain technologies in digital forensic and threat hunting
· Blockchain-based threat intelligence and threat analytics techniques
· Formal Specification of Trust behaviors and Patterns
· Cyber Dispute Resolution
· Block-chain based open-source Threat Detection Tools
· Forensics readiness of blockchain technologies
· Security and privacy aspects of blockchain technologies
· Vulnerabilities of Smart Contracts
· Theory of Blockchain in Cybersecurity
· Blockchain for securing cyber infrastructure and Internet of Things networks
· Blockchain-based security tools, techniques and procedures for Industrial Internet of Things and Industry 4.0
· Blockchain-based cybersecurity education systems
Important Dates:
Submission of papers: 20 Apr 2018
Notification of acceptance: by 10 May 2018
Camera-ready papers: 15 May 2018
Conference: 30 July - 3 August 2018