CFP: First International Workshop on Security and Privacy in Cloud Computing
 (ICDCS-SPCC)
Genoa, Italy
June 25, 2010
http://www.ece.iit.edu/~ubisec/workshop.htm 
  
To be held in conjuction with IEEE International Conference on
Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2010)

 

Cloud computing has recently emerged as a new information technology
infrastructure. In cloud computing, information is permanently stored
in large data centers on the Internet and temporarily accessed and
cached on clients that include desktops and portable PCs, sensors,
etc. With the "cloud" as a metaphor for the Internet, cloud computing
promises to deliver massively scalable IT-enabled data, software, and
hardware capabilities as a service to external clients using Internet
technologies. Cloud computing has been envisioned as the key
technology to achieve economies of scale in the deployment and
operation of IT solutions.


Cloud computing has unique attributes that raise many security and
privacy challenges in areas such as data security, recovery, and
privacy, as well as legal issues in areas such as regulatory
compliance and auditing. In contrast to traditional enterprise IT
solutions, where the IT services are under proper physical, logical
and personnel controls, cloud computing moves the application software
and databases to the servers in large data centers on the Internet,
where the management of the data and services are not fully
trustworthy. When clients store their data on the server without
themselves possessing a copy of it, how the integrity of the data can
be ensured if the server is not fully trustworthy? Will encryption
solve the data confidentiality problem of sensitive data? How will
encryption affect dynamic data operations such as query, insertion,
modification, and deletion? Data in the cloud is typically in a shared
environment alongside data from other clients. How the data
segregation should be done, while data are stored, executed, and
transmitted? How the virtulized resources is being managed and secured
in the cloud? Due to the fundamental paradigm shift in cloud
computing, many security concerns have to be better understood,
unanticipated vulnerabilities identified, and viable solutions to
critical threats devised, before the wide deployment of cloud
computing techniques can take place. Topics of interests include (but
are not limited to) the following subject categories:

Secure management of virtualized cloud resources
Secure network architecture for cloud computing
Joint security and privacy aware cloud protocol design
Access control and key management
Trust and policy management in clouds
Identification and privacy in cloud
Remote data integrity protection
Secure computation outsourcing
Dynamic data operation security
Software and data segregation security
Failure detection and prediction
Secure data management within and across data centers
Availability, recovery and auditing
Secure wireless cloud

Authors are invited to submit either Research Papers or Position
Papers or both. Position Papers that define new problems in cloud
computing security or provide visions and clarifications of cloud
computing security are solicited. Regular Research Papers that present
novel research results on security and privacy in cloud computing and
Short Research Papers that describe work-in-progress ideas are also
welcome. Research Papers and Position Papers will be reviewed
separately.

Time Table

Manuscript submission: January 22, 2010
Acceptance notification: Feburary 28, 2010
Final Manuscript due: March 15, 2010
Workshop Date: June 25, 2010

Paper Submission 
Form of Manucript: All paper submissions should follow the IEEE 8.5" x
11" Two-Column Format. Regular Research Paper submission can have 10
pages plus up to 2 over-length pages. If the paper is accepted for
publication, an over-length fee will be charged to each of the
over-length pages, at $200 per page in the final camera-ready
version. Position Papers and Short Research Papers, on the other hand,
are allowed to be up to 5 pages.

Electronic Submission: https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=spcc20100.

Organizing Committees 


Program Co-chairs 
Peng Ning, North Carolina State University, Raleigh 
Wenjing Lou, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Publicity Chair 
Kui Ren, Illinois Institute of Technology

Technical Program Committee 
Vasanth Bala, IBM T.J. Watson Research
Guohong Cao, The Pennsylvania State University
Hao Chen, UC Davis
Shigang Chen, University of Florida
Bruno Crispo, University of Trento
Weidong Cui, Microsoft Research
Roberto Di Pietro, Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Yong Guan, Iowa State University 
Xuxian Jiang, North Carolina State University
Ari Juels, RSA Laboratories
Yongdae Kim, University of Minnesota at Twin Cities
Wenke Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology
Karl Levitt, UC Davis
Refik Molva, EURECOM
Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research
Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Purdue University
Alina Oprea, RSA Laboratories
Michael Reiter, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Kui Ren, Illinois Institute of Technology
Mark Ryan, University of Birmingham
Pierangela Samarati, Università degli Studi di Milano
Wade Trappe, Rutgers University
Mladen Vouk, North Carolina State University
Cliff Wang, US Army Research Office
Guilin Wang, University of Birmingham
Xinyuan Wang, George Mason University
Samuel Weber, National Science Foundation
Tilman Wolf, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Dongyan Xu, Purdue University
Dong Xuan, The Ohio State University
Lok-Kwong Yan, US Air Force Research Laboratory
Moti Yung, Google Inc.
Xiaolan Zhang, IBM T.J. Watson Research
Lenore D. Zuck, National Science Foundation

Steering Committee 
Peng Ning, North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Jeffrey Chase, Duke University 
David Du, University of Minnesota 
Ari Juels, RSA Laboratories 
Wenjing Lou, Worcester Polytechnic Institute 
Michael Reiter, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 
Moti Yung, Google Inc.