Botconf2017: Botconf 2017 Montpellier, France, December 5-8, 2017 |
Conference website | https://www.botconf.eu |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=botconf2017 |
Abstract registration deadline | July 15, 2017 |
Submission deadline | July 15, 2017 |
The full CFP is available on the conference website
Botconf is an international scientific conference aiming at bringing together academic, industrial, law enforcement and independent researchers working on issues related to the fight against botnets. You will find the content of last year’s edition here.
Botnets: “The term botnets is used to define networks of infected end-hosts, called bots, that are under the control of a human operator commonly known as the botmaster. While botnets recruit vulnerable machines using methods also utilized by other classes of malware (e.g., remotely exploiting software vulnerabilities, social engineering, etc.), their defining characteristic is the use of command and control (C&C) channels to connect bots to their botmasters.” (A multifaceted approach to understanding the botnet phenomenon, Moheeb Abu Rajab, Jay Zarfoss, Fabian Monrose, Andreas Terzis, in Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement (IMC ’06))
The focus of the conference is mostly technical, but papers on legal issues, economic aspects, criminology and malware actor behavior as well as prevention initiatives are more than welcome and actually encouraged. Whenever dealing with personal data, submissions are invited to include provisions in relation to privacy issues.
Submission Guidelines
All proposals should be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. Papers, presentations and workshops are to be given in English language, thus submissions are expected in English.
Authors are invited to submit in one of the following groups:
- Workshops: the aim is to organise hands-on workshops on December 05th 2017 to smaller groups of attendees on technical topics such as malware analysis, network trace analysis or command and control server discovery, etc.
OR, for the conference:
- Full paper: the intention of the author is to produce a full scientific paper, present his/her work at the conference (timeslots of 40 to 60 minutes will be allocated);
- Presentation: the intention of the author is to present at the conference (timeslots of 30 to 50 minutes will be allocated);
- Short talk: short talks are aimed at offering a platform for young scientists or young projects to present their work. The expected outcome is a 20 minutes presentation at the conference, but a short paper can also be prepared.
List of Topics
The topics of interest include:
- The functioning of botnets and of methods used to distribute malware related to botnets,
- In particular, the functioning of malware and command & control mechanisms related to botnets,
- The understanding of the organisation of groups involved in the development or the management of botnets,
- Methods to monitor, localize and identify botnets and distribution of malware related to botnets,
- In particular, methods to detect, mitigate and disrupt botnet activities inside ISP networks or organisations’ networks
- Technical, legal and other methods used to mitigate, investigate, dismantle or disrupt botnets,
- The economics of cybercrime activities behind botnets
We are very much interested in having more non-technical presentations at Botconf 2017, on law, criminology, analyses of behaviour of suspects, etc.
We would specifically like to have more submissions on legal and economic aspects.
Committees
Program Committee
- Erwan Abgrall, PhD, Security engineer, DGA-MI, France
- José Araujo, Head of the Applied and Fundamental Research Division, French Network and Information Security Agency (ANSSI), France
- Patrice Auffret, IT security expert, CERT La Poste, France
- Thomas Barabosch, IT security researcher, Fraunhofer FKIE, Germany
- Christiaan Beek, Advanced Threat Research – Office of the CTO, Intel Security, United States of America
- Guillaume Bonfante, PhD, Assistant-Professor, Lorraine University, France
- Jean-Ian Boutin, Researcher, ESET, Canada
- Christian Dietrich, PhD, Senior security researcher, CrowdStrike Inc., United States of America
- Alexandre Dulaunoy, Security Researcher, CIRCL, Computer Incident Response Center Luxembourg, National CERT, Luxembourg
- Sebastian Garcia, PhD, Director of Cybersecurity and the Stratosphere project in the CTU University, Prague, Czech Republic
- Laura Guevara, Cyber analysis & defense, Fraunhofer FKIE, Germany
- Mark Hammell, Threat analyst, Facebook, United States of America
- Denis Laskov, Senior Security Researcher at Trusteer, an IBM company, Israel
- Corrado Leita, PhD, Senior Malware Researcher, Lastline, United Kingdom
- Dhia Mahjoub, PhD, Principal Engineer, Cisco Umbrella (OpenDNS), United States of America
- Jean-Yves Marion, Professor, Director LORIA / CNRS, INRIA, Université de Lorraine, France
- Paul Rascagnères, Cisco Talos, France
- Valter Santos, Anubis Networks, Portugal
- Roberto Sponchioni, Senior Anti-Malware Engineer, Symantec, Ireland
- Tom Ueltschi, Security analyst, Swiss Post, Switzerland
- Éric Freyssinet, PhD, Associate Researcher at LORIA (CNRS, INRIA, Lorraine University), law enforcement officer in the Gendarmerie Nationale, programme committee chair, France
Accepted talks and papers
Each accepted paper and workshop is entitled to the following:
- speakers’ dinner (main speaker and if attending one co-speaker),
- free ticket for one person for full access to the conference (including coffee breaks, lunches and reception), co-speakers will be allowed to purchase a ticket for a reduced fee
- four hotel nights for one person.
Publication
Botconf2017 proceedings will be published in the Journal on Cybercrime and Digital Investigations at https://journal.cecyf.fr
Venue
The conference will be held in Montpellier, France.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to chairman@botconf.eu