Cyber Incident 2017: International Conference On Cyber Incident Response, Coordination, Containment & Control Grand Connaught Rooms London, UK, June 19-20, 2017 |
| Conference website | http://www.c-mric.org/ci2017 |
| Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cyberincident2017 |
| Abstract registration deadline | February 28, 2017 |
| Submission deadline | April 10, 2017 |
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:
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Submission
The deadline for submission of extended abstracts and full papers is 10th April 2017.Please prepare your paper according to the formatting guidelines (Word document/PDF template/LaTeX). Please also find here the copyright-form, which must be completed for all accepted papers.
Online Submission
The online submission process is open!
Authors may use the online submission systems hosted by EasyChair Conference Portal to submit their papers. If you don't have an EasyChair account you will need to create one and then login in order to submit your papers. Please read the Submission Instructions before submitting your work in the system.
Submission Instructions
Both long (8 pages max., roughly 8,000 words) and short (4 pages max., roughly 4,000 words) paper submissions should be written in English and be submitted electronically via the EasyChair conference portal. Submission file formats are PDF and Microsoft Word using the C-MRiC Word/PDF templates that can be found at the corresponding C-MRiC website.
Authors wishing to present a Poster, Industry Proof of Concept (PoC), Work in Progress (WIP), Research Ideas, and PhD Seminar may submit a 2‐page extended abstract using the online submission systems hosted by EasyChair Conference Portal, which, if accepted, will appear in the conference proceedings.
Accepted papers
Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. Authors should certify that their papers represent substantially new previously unpublished work. Paper submission implies that the intent is for one of the authors to present the paper if accepted and that at least one of the authors register for a full conference fee.
All accepted papers, including extended abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings.
Best Papers
The best paper of each section will be selected and their author(s) will receive a corresponding Award Certificate.
Authors of the Best 20%-25% papers presented at the conference will be invited to adapt their papers for their publication in one of the special issues peer reviewed journals.
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Topics of Interest
Original papers are invited on recent advances in Cyber incident response, coordination, containment and control, and including risk management, risk-based decision, prioritisation, conditionality and proportionality. The topics in Cyber Incident 2017 include but not limited to:
Cyber Incident Response
Cyber Incident Analysis
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Cyber Incident Triage
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Cyber Incident Correlation and Assessment
- Coordination
- Containment
- Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
- Timeliness
- Handling and Handling Process
- Reporting
- Escalation
- Cyber Incident Management
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Decision Control
- Decision Control
- Emergence Services
- Preparedness
- Readiness
- Analysis
- Risk Management
- Conditionality
- Proportionality
- Prioritisation
- Decision Making
- Risk-Based Decision
- Human in the Loop
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Preparedness & Readiness
- Training
- Processes and Procedures
- Policy and Standards
- Emergency Services
- Chain of Custody
- Forensic Readiness and Investigations
- Cyber Incident Notification and Announcements
- Cyber Incident Management Tool
- Standardisation
- Framework and Methodology
- Expertise, Skills, Knowledge and Resource
- Maturity Model and Goal Setting
- Certification and Accreditation
- Memberships to Cyber Incident Responders, Incident Response Organisation
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Investigation Techniques
- Rule-Based Systems
- Expert Systems
- Adaptive Learning Systems
- Predictive Systems
- The use of Biometrics to aid Forensic Investigations
- Speak, audio and voice Recognition for forensics
- Correlation and cross-correlation for Incident Analysis
- Cross-Domain Analysis
- Cross-Channel Incident Analysis
- Multi-domain Analysis
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Committees
Program Committee
Steering Committee Chairs
- Cyril Onwubiko – Centre for Multidisciplinary Research, Innovation and Collaboration, UK
- Thomas Owens – Brunel University, London, UK
Steering Committee
- Sotiris Ioannidis – the Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and Technology (FORTH), Greece
- Uri Blumenthal – MIT Lincoln Laboratory, MIT, USA
- Nick Savage – University of Portsmouth, UK
Industry Liaison Chairs
- Uwe Glässer – School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, Canada
- Manish Gupta – State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, USA
- Andrew Lenaghan – Oxford University, UK
- Tim D Williams – Cyber Security, London, UK
- Frederick Wamala – Security Architecture & Cyber Security, IBM, UK
Publicity Chairs
- Xuan Zhao – Cylance, California, USA
- Gareth Niblett – BCS Information Security Specialist Group (ISSG), UK
- Daniel Zeng – University of Arizona, USA
Conference Chairs
- Xavier Bellekens – University of Abertay, Scotland, UK
- Cyril Onwubiko – Centre for Multidisciplinary Research, Innovation and Collaboration, UK
Programme Committee
- Uri Blumenthal – MIT Lincoln Laboratory, MIT, USA
- Emin Tatli – Türk Telekom R&D Technology Center, Istanbul, Turkey
- Kirankumar S. Akate – Government Institute of Forensic Science, Aurangabad, India
- Jens Myrup Pedersen – University of Aalborg, Denmark
- Uwe Glässer – School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, Canada
- Anthony Davies – IEEE UK & Ireland, IEEE
- Marco Ivan Ramirez Sosa Moran – Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Westminster, London, UK
- Lai Bun Lok – IEEE UK & Ireland, IEEE
- Matthew Gream – IEEE UK & Ireland, IEEE
- Frederick Wamala – Security Architecture & Cyber Security, IBM, UK
- Thomas Owens – Brunel University, London, UK
- Reza Tadayoni – University of Aalborg, Denmark
- Subrata Acharya – Towson University, USA
- Marios Anagnostopoulos – University of the Aegean, Greece
- Erik Blasch – Fusion Evaluation & Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
- Wei Yu – Towson University, USA
- Ciza Thomas – College of Engineering, India
- Stefanos Gritzalis – University of the Aegean, Greece
- Bechara Al Bouna – Science University, Lebenanon
- Janne Merete Hagen – Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, Norway
- Varun Dutt – Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, India
- Cleotilde Gonzalez - Carnegie Mellon University, USA
- Khidir M. Ali – Jubail University College, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
- Katherine Hamilton – Penn State University, USA
- Xinyu Yang - Xi’an Jiaotong University, China
- Jie Lin – Xi’an Jiaotong University, China
- Georgios Kambourakis – University of the Aegean, Greece
- Gerardo I. Simari - Universidad Nacional del Sur in Bahia Blanca and CONICET, Argentina
- Pierre Parrend – ECAM Strasbourg-Europe, France
- Abdullahi Arabo – University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol, UK
- Veena Desai – Gogte Institute of Technology, Belgaum, India
- Azah Norman – University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Eliana Stavrou – Computing Department, UCLan Cyprus, Larnaca, Cyprus
- Reza Montasari – Computing and Mathematics, University of Derby, Derby, UK
- Tim D Williams – Cyber Security, London, UK
- Richard Hill – Department of Computing and Mathematics, University of Derby, Derby, UK
- Fatih Kurugollu – Cyber Security, University of Derby, Derby, UK
- Kees Leune – Cybersecurity and privacy, and Internet Of Things (IoT), Adelphi University, USA
- Daniel Schatz – Cyber Incident Response, UK
Organizing committee
Steering Committee Chairs
- Cyril Onwubiko – Centre for Multidisciplinary Research, Innovation and Collaboration, UK
- Thomas Owens – Brunel University, London, UK
Steering Committee
- Sotiris Ioannidis – the Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and Technology (FORTH), Greece
- Uri Blumenthal – MIT Lincoln Laboratory, MIT, USA
- Nick Savage – University of Portsmouth, UK
Invited Speakers
Professor Ali Hessami FRSA – Chair, IEEE United Kingdom & Ireland
Professor Hessami is the current Chair of the IEEE United Kingdom and Ireland, and Director of R&G and Innovation at Vega Systems, London, UK. He contributed significant original material to CENELEC WGA10 Report TR-50451 on Allocation of Safety Integrity & largely authored TR-50506-1 standard on the Cross-Acceptance of Signalling Systems. He has chaired CENELEC Committees developing the latest EN50128 & EN50129 revisions. He represents UK on CENELEC & IEC safety systems, hardware & software standards committees whilst also an advisor to IEEE Standards Association on European Policy matters. Ali chairs the SMC Chapter in the UK&RI Section of IEEE. During December 2013, he was appointed as the Member of the Institution of Engineering & Technology (IET-UK) Council and as the Vice Chair of the IEEE in the UK and Ireland. Ali is also policy advisor to the IEEE Standards Association on European standardization and strategy related matters. Ali has now assumed the leadership role of the UK & Ireland IEEE Section from January 2016.
Dr. Kevin Curran – Computer Science, Ulster University, Northern Ireland, UK
Dr. Curran BSc (Hons), PhD, SMIEEE, FBCS CITP, FHEA is a Reader in Computer Science at Ulster University and group leader for the Ambient Intelligence & Virtual Worlds Research Group. His achievements include winning and managing UK & European Framework projects and Technology Transfer Schemes. Dr Curran has made significant contributions to advancing the knowledge and understanding of computer networking and systems, evidenced by over 800 published works. He is perhaps most well-known for his work on location positioning within indoor environments and Internet security. His expertise has been acknowledged by invitations to present his work at international conferences, overseas universities and research laboratories. He is a regular contributor to print, online, radio & TV news on computing & security issues. He was the recipient of an Engineering and Technology Board Visiting Lectureship for Exceptional Engineers and is an IEEE Technical Expert for Internet/Security matters since 2008. He currently holds a Royal Academy of Engineering/Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship awarded in 2016. Dr. Curran’s stature and authority in the international community is demonstrated by his influence, particularly in relation to the direction of research in computer science. He has chaired sessions and participated in the organising committees for many highly-respected international conferences and workshops. He was the founding Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence and is also a member of numerous Journal Editorial boards and international conference organising committees. He has authored a number of books and is the recipient of various patents. He has served as an advisor to the British Computer Society in regard to the computer industry standards and is a member of BCS and IEEE Technology Specialist Groups and various other professional bodies.
Dr. Eckhard Pfluegel – Science, Engineering & Computing, Kingston University, London, UK
Dr Pfluegel obtained a Ph.D. in Computer Science at Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble (France) in 1999 after graduating with a First Class degree ("Diplom") in Computer Science (Equivalent of UK Honours and Master's degree) in 1999 at Universität Karlsruhe (now known as KIT), Karlsruhe (Germany). An experienced Senior Lecturer with 3 years of industrial practice in software engineering and over 13 years of research expertise, teaching responsibilities and professional practice, his current main area of specialism is network and cyber security. He has an active and continuous portfolio of over 40 peer-reviewed international journal and conference publications, serves as member of several technical programme committees and regularly reviews for international journals. Dr Pfluegel is leading an educational programme in cyber and network security at postgraduate level and frequently gives public lectures and talks on the topic of cyber and computer security awareness. He particularly enjoys research-informed teaching in order to bring in cutting-edge knowledge from his research into his lectures.
Dr. Cyril Onwubiko – Cyber Security Intelligence, Research Series Limited, London, UK
Dr Onwubiko is Director, Cyber Security Intelligence at Research Series Limited, where he is responsible for directing strategy, IA governance and cyber security. Prior to Research Series, he had worked in the Financial Services, Telecommunication, Health & Government and Public services Sectors. He is experienced in Cyber Security, Security Information and Event Management, Data Fusion, Intrusion Detection Systems and Computer Network Security; and vastly knowledgeable in Information Assurance, Risk Assessment & Management. He holds a PhD in Computer Network Security from Kingston University, London, UK; MSc in Internet Engineering, from University of East London, London, UK, and BSc, first class honours, in Computer Science & Mathematics. He has authored several books including "Security Framework for Attack Detection in Computer Networks" and "Concepts in Numerical Methods.", and edited books such as "Situational Awareness in Computer Network Defense: Principles, Methods & Applications", and Cyber Science 2015 – International Conference on Cyber Situational Awareness, Data Analytics and Assessment. He has over 30 articles published in leading and most prestigious academic journals and conferences.
Professor Frank Wang – School of Computing, University of Kent, UK
Prof Wang is a Professor of Future Computing, and a Fellow of British Computer Society. He serves the High End Computing Panel for Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) and the UK Government EPSRC e-Science Panel. Frank has attracted a number of EC/EPSRC/DTI/Industrial grants, totaling a few million euros. He has been invited to present keynote speeches and other invited talks at Princeton University (USA), Carnegie Mellon University (USA), Oxford University (UK), Edinburgh University (UK), CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research, Geneva), Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (Hong Kong), Tsinghua University (Taiwan), Jawaharlal Nehru University (India), Aristotle University (Greece), Helsinki Technology University (Finland), Turkish Government The Ministry of Industry and Commerce, University of Johannesburg (South Africa), Central Philippine University (Philippine), and Princess Sumaya University for Technology (Jordan), etc. Prof Frank Wang is Co-Editor-in-Chief of Encyclopedia of Grid Computing and Co-Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Grid and High Performance Computing.
Dr. Andrew Lenaghan – The Oxford University CERT (OxCERT), Oxford, UK
Dr Lenaghan is a Computer Security Specialist at OxCERT (the Oxford University CERT), a member of the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA). Andrew holds degrees in Computer Science, Human computer interaction (Lond.) and has a doctorate in computer vision and pattern recognition from Kingston University.
Dr. Janne Hagen – Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE), Norway
Dr. Janne Hagen, from April employed at the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE), has worked as researcher and consultant, most of the time employed at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI) conducting research on societal security and protection of critical infrastructures. Since 2005 her scientific work turned towards cybersecurity, the last years covering information operations, strategic communication and the vulnerability of the digital society. She holds an associate professor position at the University of Stavanger. She has been member of several expert groups in Norway, including the Norwegian Governmental Committee of Digital Vulnerabilities in Society that delivered an Official Norwegian Report (NOU) to the Ministry of Justice and Public Security in November 2015.
Publication
Cyber Incident 2017 proceedings will be published in the IEEE Xlpore Digital Library and C-MRiC.ORG
Venue
The conference will be held in...
The Cyber Security 2017 will be held at the Grand Connaught Rooms, London, UK.
Address
Ampthill Suite
De Vere Grand Connaught Rooms
Central London
61-65 Great Queen Street
London WC2B 5DA
United Kingdom
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Event Manager Contact
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Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to submission@c-mric.org