AWACS 2022: International Workshop on AI for Web Application Infrastructure and Cloud Platform Security Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany, March 22, 2022 |
Conference website | https://kiwi-project.org/AWACS |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=awacs2022 |
Submission deadline | February 18, 2022 |
Co-located with the 9th European Conf. On Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2022) - 22 March 2022, Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany
In recent decades, cloud computing has enabled the rapid proliferation of web-based information systems that are delivered as services, eliminating the need to purchase and maintain expensive or sophisticated hardware for data storage and processing. Cloud computing systems have therefore minimized the upfront investment of service users while promising high availability, scalability, and elasticity on demand, as well as high levels of performance, fault tolerance, and security.
Artificial intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) techniques can help DevOps and SecOps teams run cloud services and the underlying web-based information systems in a highly secure and efficient manner. They can gain an accurate and comprehensive understanding of security incidents along the entire system stack, such as unexpected application performance degradation due to network attacks or malicious end-user activity, and proactively initiate appropriate countermeasures.
Current AI- and ML-based approaches and tools mainly focus on detecting and mitigating attacks in isolated technical domains and layers, while attacks on web-based services often leave traces throughout the system. AI-based cross-domain attack detection and orchestrated mitigation therefore have the potential to improve the capabilities of security and risk management systems overall.
The workshop will focus on the general applicability and integration of AI/ML methods in the area of security and risk management in the context of modern web-based information systems. In addition to the automated, domain-specific detection of threats and the determination of countermeasures, a special focus will be placed on the fusion and integration of domain-specific detectors.
Our aim is to facilitate the exchange and evolution of relevant innovative ideas and to encourage participation of researchers both from academia and industry.
Topics include (but are not limited to) the following:
AI-based methods for web application and cloud platform security
- Approaches & applications utilizing federated ML
- Detection and mitigation of network attacks
- AI methods for generating simulations of network attacks
- AI for protocol analysis and verification
- AI methods for design and code analysis
- Governance of AI-based management methods
- AI-based automated (penetration) testing
- AI methods for secure user authentication and authorization
Domains and use cases for AI-based security measures
- Risk control in financial services and systems
- AI in payment transaction systems
- Detection of financial and other types of fraud
- Identity management and misuse prevention
- Intelligent security measures in the IoT
- Experience reports and lessons learned in real-world settings
- Other scenarios and use cases
- Related research projects and initiatives
Important Dates
- Paper Submission (extended):
14 January, 202218 February, 2022 - Notification: 25 February, 2022
- Camera-Ready Submission: 11 March, 2022
Submission Guidelines
The workshop is open to contributions that focus on a broad spectrum of AI-based applications for management and especially securing of web infrastructures and information systems. Papers should explain and exemplify relevant issues and open problems, present established solutions, and/or discuss success stories. Submitted papers must be no more than twelve (12) pages including bibliography references and need to follow Springer LNCS author guidelines (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines). Submission should be uploaded to EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=awacs2022) until the submission deadline.
Organization
Workshop Chairs:
- Professor Jürgen Angele (adessoDE)
- Jan Griebsch (1&1 IONOS SE)
- Professor Martin Johns (TU Braunschweig)
- Professor Zoltán Nochta (SAP SE)
- Professor Oliver Waldhorst (Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences)
- Professor Christian Zirpins (Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences)
- Professor Martina Zitterbart (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)