SPS19: 1st International Workshop on Self-Protecting Systems Umea, Sweden, June 16-20, 2019 |
Conference website | https://sites.google.com/view/sps19/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sps19 |
Effectively protecting computer systems from cyber-attacks is a challenging task due to their large scale and the heterogeneity of the underlying hardware and software components. Furthermore, when trying to defend from an attack, the time factor is critical and any non-guided human resolution attempt could introduce a significant stress and delay to the execution of the proper response. This situation provides the attackers more time to accomplish their objectives.
Several organizations, including the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), have released guidelines and best practices to manage cyber-security related risk (e.g., the NIST Cybersecurity Framework 1.1). However, despite a growing interest in the area in the last 4-5 years, automation of cyber-security operations is still at its early stages.
Automatically defending a computer system encompasses a large number of activities, that range from data capture, management and analysis, to automated decision making and automated system operations.
In this workshop, we solicit high quality contributions that fit with the overarching idea of creating a fully automated protection system based on the Monitor, Analyze, Plan, Execute (MAPE) loop for autonomic systems. The aim of the workshop is to share new findings, exchange ideas and discuss research challenges on the following topics (not an exhaustive list):
- Monitor
- Distributed and secure data collection and storage
- Automated Feature Selection approaches to reduce data dimensionality on cyber-security relevant data
- Analyze
- Techniques for automatic correlation of data streams
- Self-Evolving Anomaly-Based and Signature-Based Network/Host Intrusion Detection Systems
- Attack and defense modeling for threats detection and risk management
- Plan
- Self-Evolving Model-based and Model-free Intrusion response
- Attack and defense modeling for reactive and proactive intrusion response
- Execute
- Implementation of prototypes that integrate cutting edge technologies, e.g., Software Defined Networks, Container-Based systems, applications based on micro-services
Furthermore, we solicit submissions that examine the self-protection problem from an holistic perspective, that is, that will consider the overall picture and propose novel software architectures, frameworks and technologies to ease the realization of self-protecting systems.
Submission Guidelines
Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format according to the instructions on the submission instruction website (http://icac2019.cs.umu.se/calls/submission-instructions/).
Committees
Co-chairs
- Emiliano Casalicchio, Sapienza University of Rome Italy / Bleking Institute of Technology, Sweden
- Stefano Iannucci, Mississippi State University, MS ,USA
- Byron J. Williams, University of Florida, FL, USA
Technical Program Committee
- Hisham A. Kholidy, State University of New York (SUNY) Polytechnic Institute, USA
- Sherif Abdelwahed, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
- Tanmay Bhowmik, Mississippi State University, USA
- Vincent Bindschaedler, University of Florida, USA
- Paolo Campegiani, Bit4id, Italy
- Long Cheng, Clemson University, USA
- Naeem Esfahani, Google Inc., USA
- Ulrik Franke, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Sweden
- Yingjiu Li, Singapore Management University, Republic of Singapore
- Sam Malek, University of California at Irvine, USA
- Luigi V. Mancini, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
- Erik Miehling University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
- Leslie Milton, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), USA
- Andrea Montemaggio, Mississippi State University, USA
- Alireza Shameli Sendi, Shahid Beheshti University, Iran
- Craig Shorter, National Strategic Planning and Analysis Research Center (NSPARC), USA
- Kazi Zakia Sultana, Montclair State University, USA
- Cihan Tunc, University of Arizona, USA
- Daniele Venturi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
- Eric Yuan, Aerospace Corporation, USA
- Saman Zonouz, Rutgers University, USA
- ... TBC ...
Publication
SPS19 proceedings will be published in the proceedings and submitted for inclusion to IEEE Xplore. Papers must thus be in the same format as the conference proceedings and may not be more than 6 pages in length.
We are in contact with the FGCS journal (Elsevier) for the organization of a special issue about Self-protecting systems. The authors of the best workshop papers will be invited for submitting an extended version of their work
Venue
SPS is Part of the FAS* Workshops series held in conjunction with 16th International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2019) and 13th International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2019)
The conference will be held in June 16 - 20 at Umeå, Sweden
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to SPS19Workshop@gmail.com