SPCC 2012 - ICDCS-SPCC 2012 : The 3rd International Workshop on Security and Privacy in Cloud Computing

Cloud computing has recently emerged as a new information technology infrastructure. Cloud computing has unique attributes that raise many security and privacy challenges in areas such as data security, recovery, and privacy, as well as legal issues in areas such as regulatory compliance and auditing. In contrast to traditional enterprise IT solutions, where the IT services are under proper physical, logical and personnel controls, cloud computing moves the application software and databases to the servers in large data centers on the Internet, where the management of the data and services are not fully trustworthy. When clients store their data on the server without themselves possessing a copy of it, how the integrity of the data can be ensured if the server is not fully trustworthy? Will encryption solve the data confidentiality problem of sensitive data? How will encryption affect dynamic data operations such as query, insertion, modification, and deletion? Data in the cloud is typically in a shared environment alongside data from other clients. How the data segregation should be done, while data are stored, transmitted, and processed? Due to the fundamental paradigm shift in cloud computing, many security concerns have to be better understood, unanticipated vulnerabilities identified, and viable solutions to critical threats devised, before the wide deployment of cloud computing techniques can take place.
We are soliciting both full papers that present relatively complete and mature research results and short position papers that report work-in-progress but inspiring and intriguing new ideas. Topics of interests include (but are not limited to) the following subject categories:
Secure cloud architecture
Cloud access control and key management
Identification and privacy in cloud
Remote data integrity protection
Dynamic data operation security
Software and data segregation security
Secure management of virtualized resources
Joint security and privacy aware protocol design
Failure detection and prediction
Secure data management within and across data centers
Availability, recovery and auditing
Secure wireless cloud
Authors are invited to submit either Research Papers or Position Papers or both. Position Papers that define new problems in cloud computing security or provide visions and clarifications of cloud computing security are solicited. Regular Research Papers that present novel research results on security and privacy in cloud computing, and Short Research Papers that describe work-in-progress ideas are also welcome. Research Papers and Position Papers will be reviewed separately.
Time Table
Manuscript submission: January 8, 2012
Acceptance notification: February 22, 2012
Final Manuscript due: March 3, 2012
Workshop Date: TBA
Paper Submission
Form of Manucript: All paper submissions should follow the IEEE 8.5" x 11" Two-Column Format. Regular Research Paper submission can have 10 pages plus up to 2 over-length pages. If the paper is accepted for publication, an over-length fee will be charged to each of the over-length pages, at $200 per page in the final camera-ready version. Position Papers and Short Research Papers, on the other hand, are allowed to be up to 5 pages.
Electronic Submission: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icdcss....
Organizing Committees
General Chair
Xiaohua Jia, City University of Hong Kong
Program Co-chairs
Moti Yung, Google Inc.
Kui Ren, Illinois Institute of Technology
Publicity Chair
Shucheng Yu, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Technical Program Committee (to be finalized)
Ahmed Azab, North Carolina State University
Jack Brassil, HP Laboratories
Charlie Catlett, Argonne National Laboratory
Sherman S.M. Chow, University of Waterloo
Xuhua Ding, Singapore Management University
Xinwen Fu, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Keesook Han, Air Force Research Laboratory
Xiaohua Jia, City University of Hong Kong
Xuxian Jiang, North Carolina State University
Zhenkai Liang, National University of Singapore
Xiaodong Lin, University of Ontario Institute of Technology
Wenjing Lou, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Di Ma, University of Michigan Dearborn
Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research
Peng Ning, North Carolina State University
Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Purdue University
Kui Ren, Illinois Institute of Technology
Pierangela Samarati, Università degli Studi di Milano
Cliff Wang, US Army Research Office
Sherry Wang, Johns Hopkins University/Applied Physics Laboratory
Xinyuan Wang, George Mason University
Zhi Wang, North Carolina State University
Moti Yung, Google Inc.
Xiaolan (Catherine) Zhang, IBM T.J. Watson Research
Steering Committee
Peng Ning, North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Jeffrey Chase, Duke University
David Du, University of Minnesota
Ari Juels, RSA Laboratories
Wenjing Lou, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Michael Reiter, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Moti Yung, Google Inc.