CALL FOR PAPERS

First International Workshop on Information Security, Assurance and
Reliability in the Cloud (WISARC)
https://www.di.ubi.pt/∼inacio/wisarc/

In conjunction with the 8th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and
Cloud Computing (UCC 2015)
December 7-10, 2015, Limassol, Cyprus
http://cyprusconferences.org/ucc2015/

Overview
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Cloud computing is nowadays a key enabling technology in the IT world. Adopting
or moving to the cloud raises security concerns, spanning from confidentiality
issues due to data outsourcing, to regulation and jurisdiction problems, which
have been the focus of researchers and security solutions manufacturers in the
past few years. Cloud computing effectively increased the attack landscape and
brought security issues of its own. On the other hand, it also provided new
means to deal with threats, and it constitutes an environment where
fundamentally different information security approaches need to be devised,
involving often a multidisciplinary effort in disciplines such as cryptography,
networking, software development, system architecture, among others. This
workshop aims to attract innovative research works and foster discussions
addressing technical, policy and legal issues of information security,
assurance and reliability in cloud computing environments, elaborating on
distinguished and emerging topics that are of interest to both the academia and
the industry.

Topics of Interest
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The Technical Program Committee of WISARC 2015 invites researchers and
practitioners to prepare high-quality submissions describing unpublished
theoretical or practical research related with cloud security. Topics
of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:

* Architecture security of web services and web protocols;
* Assurance of data sanitization in the Cloud;
* Auditability of cloud systems;
* Big data and log analysis;
* Cloud and BYOD integration security;
* Cloud availability and resources starvation;
* Cloud computing cybercriminality, APTs and cybersecurity;
* Cloud-focused attacks;
* Cloud forensics;
* Cryptography for the Cloud;
* Cryptography in trust models and trusted computing technology;
* Enforcement of security in hybrid clouds;
* Interclouds security;
* Modern malware analysis;
* Multi-factor auth (authentication and authorization);
* Network perimeter security, monitoring and SIEM in the cloud for incident response;
* Privacy and anonymization in cloud systems;
* Reliable and privacy-preserving outsourced storage and distributed computing;
* Secure (federated) identity management and SSO architectures;
* Secure and reliable cloud programming models;
* Secure generation and management of cryptography secrets in VMs;
* Security issues in software-defined networks;
* Security of open-source cloud software;
* Trust and policy management in cloud systems;
* Virtualization and sandbox security and VM isolation assurance.

Important Dates
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* Paper submission due: extended to August 22, 2015 (UTC midnight)
* Notification of acceptance: September 15, 2015
* Camera ready: September 21, 2015
* Early and author registration deadline: September 21, 2015
* Workshop: December 7-10, 2015

Submission
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Manuscripts submitted to this workshop should be structured as technical papers
and may not exceed six (6) single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point
size font on 8.5x11 inch pages using the IEEE conference style. The page limit
includes title, abstract, figures and references. Submissions exceeding the
page limit will not be reviewed. Manuscripts must be received by July 3, 2015.
Submissions must be in PDF format and issued via EasyChair by following the
link:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wisarc2015

All manuscripts will be reviewed by the Technical Program Committee and
evaluated on originality, relevance of the problem to the workshop theme,
technical strength, rigor in analysis, quality of results, and organization and
clarity of the presentation. Submitted papers must represent original
unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other
conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected
without review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to)
notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and sponsors
of the conferences. Authors may contact the Program Chairs using the email
addresses included below for further information or clarification.

Notification of review decisions will be mailed by August 21, 2015.
Camera-ready papers are due by September 21, 2015. Published proceedings will
be available at the conference. At least one author of each paper must be
registered for the conference in order for the paper to be published in the
proceedings. Presentation of an accepted paper at the workshop is a requirement
for publication also. There is no student rate for the author responsible for
the registration of his/her published paper. In case of having more than one
accepted paper, authors have to register for each one individually. There is no
discount associated with having more than one paper accepted.

Program Co-Chairs
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* Diogo A. B. Fernandes (diogo-a-fernandes@telecom.pt)
Portugal Telecom, Portugal

* Pedro R. M. Inácio (inacio@di.ubi.pt)
University of Beira Interior and Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal

* José Alegria (jose-alegria@telecom.pt)
Portugal Telecom, Portugal

Technical Program Committee
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* Aleksandra Mileva, Goce Delcev University, Macedonia
* António Casimiro, University of Lisbon, Portugal
* Damien Magoni, University of Bordeaux, France
* Diogo A. B. Fernandes, Portugal Telecom, Portugal
* Giampaolo Bella, University of Catania, Italy
* Hugues Mercier, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland
* José Alegria, Portugal Telecom, Portugal
* Mário M. Freire, University of Beira Interior, Portugal
* Miguel P. Correia, University of Lisbon, Portugal
* Neeraj Mittal, University of Texas at Dallas, United States of America
* Patrik Ekdahl, Ericsson AB, Lund, Sweden
* Pedro R. M. Inácio, University of Beira Interior, Portugal
* Rui Miguel Silva, Polytechnic Institute of Beja, Portugal
* Simona Bernardi, Centro Universitario de la Defensa, Zaragoza, Spain