First International Baltic Conference on Network Security & Forensics (NeSeFo 2012)

August 2nd and August 3rd, Tartu, Estonia


The conference seeks submissions from academia, industry, and government presenting novel research on all aspects of applied cryptography as well as network security and privacy. Papers describing novel paradigms, original directions, or non-traditional perspectives are also encouraged. The conference has two tracks: a research track and a government only track. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Access control
- Applied cryptography
- Automated protocols analysis
- Biometric security and privacy
- Complex systems security
- Critical infrastructure protection
- Cryptographic primitives and protocols
- Database and system security
- Data protection
- Digital rights management
- Email and web security
- Identity management
- Intellectual property protection
- Internet fraud
- Intrusion detection and prevention
- Key management
- Cybercrime scenario analysis and reconstruction
- Methodologies for digital forensics
- Forensic software tools and applications
- Forensic-enabled architectures and processes
- Malware
- Network security protocols
- Privacy, anonymity, and untraceability
- Privacy-enhancing technology
- Protection for the future Internet
- Secure mobile agents
- Security in e-commerce
- Security in P2P systems
- Security in ubiquitous computing
- Security and privacy in grid systems
- Security and privacy in distributed systems
- Security and privacy in smart grids
- Security and privacy in wireless networks
- Security and privacy metrics
- Trust management
- Usability and security
- Tools and techniques for network forensics
- Forensics of mobile devices
- Attack strategy analysis & modelling

Submission

Please submit an original paper (5 - 10 pages) stating the main contributions of your work as well as key references. The accepted contributions will be published in a book of proceedings (with ISBN number).

Submissions shall be made by email to NeSeFo2012@hs-wismar.de. Contributions must use LaTeX IEEEtran style (DIN A4 paper setting) or the Word template available at http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html and must be handed in as PDF as well as in the original format.

Deadlines

Paper submission due: April 10, 2012

Notification to authors: June 1, 2012

Camera ready due: June 24, 2012

Conference Fee: 200 € (early-bird, deadline: June 9, 2012) / 250 €
NeSeFo conference support is available for promising PhD students from Eastern European countries and other low GDP countries.

Organising Committee

- Ahrens, Andreas (Hochschule Wismar) Email: andreas.ahrens@hs-wismar.de
- Cap, Clemens (University of Rostock) Email: clemens.cap@uni-rostock.de

Programme Committee
- Baier, Harald (Hochschule Darmstadt, University of Applied Sciences)
- Hammer, Daniel (University of Applied Sciences Offenburg)
- Kerschbaum, Florian (Dresden University of Technology)
- Müller, Günter (University of Freiburg)
- Unruh, Dominique (Tartu University)
- Kemmerich, Thomas (Bremen University)
- Freiling, Felix (University Erlangen-Nürnberg)
- Pfisterer, Dennis (Luebeck University)
- Dankert, Reinhard (Data Protection Commissioner of the Federal State Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)