WRAITS 2011 - 5th Workshop on Recent Advances in Intrusion-Tolerant Systems (WRAITS)

5th Workshop on Recent Advances in Intrusion-Tolerant Systems (WRAITS)


In conjunction with The 41st IEEE/IFIP International Conference on
Dependable Systems and Networks - DSN 2011

June 27, 2011
Hong Kong, China
http://wraits11.di.fc.ul.pt/

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: March 15, 2011
Author notification: April 15, 2011
Final version: May 1, 2011 (hard)



OVERVIEW

The 5th edition of the Workshop on Recent Advances on Intrusion-Tolerant
Systems aims to continue the collaborative discourse on the challenges of
building intrusion-tolerant systems and innovative ideas to address them.
Intrusion Tolerance combines theoretical aspects of Fault
Tolerance and Security with the practical aspects of Systems and Software
Engineering distributed (networked) computing systems.

Researchers and practitioners now agree that "intrusion free" or
"unattackable" systems that are of any practical use are infeasible. As
recent events such as April 2010 BGP Hijacking and Stuxnet indicate,
networked computer based systems are increasingly susceptible to security
incidents-- be it accidentally or maliciously induced. We need systems that
can withstand, recover from and continue to provide meaningful service
despite such incidents. This year's workshop will focus on all aspects of
security and dependability that facilitate prevention or minimization of
the impact of such events on computing systems, and enable recovery and
continued function even if the events succeed in causing some damage.

The workshop will provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to
present designs, algorithms and architectures for intrusion tolerance,
new security mechanisms or novel use of existing mechanisms,
recent results, discuss open problems that still need research, and
challenging survivability problems in specific application and
domain areas.

Authors are invited to submit papers to the workshop, which will be held
in conjunction with the 41st IEEE/IFIP International Conference on
Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), June 27-30, 2011. Papers can
present ongoing work and/or speculative/futuristic ideas. Experimental
results or other forms of validation are especially encouraged. The
workshop papers will be published in a supplementary volume of the
conference proceedings.

TOPICS

Topics of interest related to advances in intrusion-tolerant systems
include, but are not limited to:

* Adaptive security and adaptation for intrusion tolerance
* Assessment and evaluation of intrusion-tolerant systems
* Assurance and survivability benefits of hardware and software
virtualization
* Automatic recovery and response techniques
* Biologically inspired defenses
* Byzantine fault tolerance
* Diversity and failure independence
* Intrusion tolerance in cyber-physical systems and critical infrastructures
* Intrusion-tolerant web-scale systems
* Survivability and information assurance in the Cloud
* Theoretical limits/boundaries of intrusion tolerance
* Threat of botnet herds and surviving them
* Real world case studies

More information about the workshop can be obtained by emailing to
wraits11_AT_di.fc.ul.pt



SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

The workshop will accept two formats of papers: regular papers (maximum 6
pages) and position papers (maximum 2 pages). Position papers allow
researchers to present more speculative/futuristic ideas to stimulate
discussion and further work. Papers have to adhere to the IEEE Computer
Society camera-ready 8.5”x11” two-column camera-ready format, like regular
DSN papers. Instructions about how to submit papers can be found on the
web site http://wraits11.di.fc.ul.pt/ . More information about the
workshop can be obtained by email to the same address.

At least one author of an accepted paper must register at the conference
and present the paper at the workshop.



WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS

Alysson Bessani, University of Lisboa, Portugal
Partha Pal, BBN Technologies, USA

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Byung-Gon Chun, Intel Labs Berkeley, USA
Miguel Correia, University of Lisboa, Portugal
Manuel Costa, Microsoft Research, UK
Todashi Dohi, Hiroshima University, Japan
Ilir Gashi, City University of London, UK
Rüdiger Kapitza, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Patrick Kreidl, MIT, USA
Peng Liu, Penn State University, USA
Marco Serafini, Yahoo! Research, Spain
Arun Sood, George Mason University, USA
Paulo Verissimo, University of Lisboa, Portugal
Yu-Sung Wu, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Saman Zonouz, University of Illinois, USA