TRACK 2: SECURITY

The Security Track will address all the security aspects of design, implementation, deployment, architectures and modelling of heterogeneous wired and wireless computer networks, of the virtualization technology, as well as of the pervasive computer applications. It will also provide dynamic forums for researchers, students and professionals to present their research results and development in these areas and will offer the opportunity for a more focused exchange of ideas and presentation of on-going research relevant to information and system security.

Topic areas of interest of this track include, but are not limited to:

  • Authentication protocols and services authorization
  • Data and system integrity and confidentiality
  • Availability of secure services
  • Key Distribution and management, PKI and security management
  • Trust models and Trust establishment
  • Identity management, authentication and access control
  • Deployment and management of computer/network security policies
  • Monitoring Design for security, distributed Intrusion Detection Systems & Countermeasures
  • Single and multi-source intrusion detection and response
  • Traffic filtering and Firewalling
  • IPv6 security, IPSec, Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
  • Privacy, contract agreements, and payment systems
  • Revocation of malicious parties
  • Prevention, Detection and Reaction Design
  • Light-weight cryptography
  • Quantum Cryptography and QKD
  • Applications of Cryptography and Cryptanalysis in communications security
  • Mobile code security & Security management
  • Secure PHY, MAC, Routing and upper layer protocols
  • Secure Cross layer design
  • Secure naming and addressing (Privacy and anonymity)
  • Network security metrics and performance evaluation
  • Security modelling and protocol design
  • Smart cards and secure hardware
  • Biometric security: technologies, risks and vulnerabilities
  • Information hiding and watermarking
  • Vulnerability, exploitation tools, and virus/worm analysis
  • Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks and countermeasures
  • Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems
  • Web, e-mail , m-commerce, e-business and e-commerce security
  • Testbeds, performance evaluation and formal specification methods
  • Virtualization for security and reliability

 

TRACK CHAIRS

Program co–chairs: Albert Levi – Sabanci Univ, Turkey
  Roberto Di Pietro – University of Roma Tre, Italy
Publicity chair Sherif El-Kassas – AUC, Egypt

COMMITTEE PROGRAM

Sudhir Aggarwal Florida State University, USA
Khaled Alghathbar King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
Tansu Alpcan Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany
Ezedin Barka UAE University, UAE
Carole Bassil Lebanese University, Lebanon
Erik-Oliver Blass Eurecom, France
Carlo Blundo University of Salerno, Italy
Levente Buttyan Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Seyit Camtepe Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Ana Cavalli INT Evry, France
Zhenfu Cao SJTU, China
Shiping Chen Sybase, Inc., USA
Zesheng Chen Florida International University, USA
Frederic Cuppens ENST Bretagne, France
Bruno Crispo VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Herve Debar France Telecom R&D, France
Lieven Desmet Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
El-Sayed El-Alfy KFUPM, Saudi Arabia
Ulrich Flegel SAP Research, Germany
Felix Gomez Marmol University of Murcia, Spain
Lisandro Granville Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Song Han Curtin University, Australia
Alejandro Hevia Universidad de Chile, Chile
James Hughes Huawei, USA
Yixin Jiang University of Waterloo, Canada
Di Jin University of Oklahoma, USA
Georgios Kambourakis University of the Aegean, Greece
Stamatis Karnouskos SAP Research, Germany
Stamatios Kartalopoulos University of Oklahoma, USA
Dogan Kesdogan University of Siegen, Germany
Marek Klonowski TU Wroclaw, Poland
Peng Liu Pennsylvania State University, USA
Flavio Lombardi National Research Council, Italy
Wenjing Lou Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
Michael Kounavis Intel Corporation, USA
Chunbo Ma Guilin University of Electronic Technology, China
Yoshifumi Manabe NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan
Gregorio Martinez Perez University of Murcia, Spain
Fabio Massacci Univ. of Trento, Italy
Ashraf Matrawy Carleton University, Canada
Rafael Obelheiro UDESC, Brazil
Thomas Pedersen Sabanci University, Turkey
Lisa Osadciw Syracuse University, USA
Ramon Puigjaner Baleares Island University, Spain
Jean-Jacques Quisquater Catholic University of Catholique of Louvain, Belgium
Kui Ren Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
Altair Santin Pontifical Catholic University of Parana (PUCPR), Brazil
Erkay Savas Sabanci University, Turkey
Ahmed Serhrouchni TELECOM ParisTECH, France
Ping Shum Nanyang Technological University & Network Technology Research Centre, Singapore
Nicolas Sklavos Technological Educational Institute of Patras & Branch of Pyrgos, Greece
Agusti Solanas Rovira i Virgili University, Spain
Haoyu Song Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA
Lingyu Wang Concordia University, Canada