CALL FOR PAPERS

The Fifth International Workshop on Security Testing (SECTEST 2014)
March 31 - April 4, 2014

https://sites.google.com/site/sectestworkshop/

ICST 2014, Cleveland, Ohio USA

To improve software security, several techniques, including
vulnerability modelling and security testing, have been developed but
the problem remains unsolved. SECTEST workshop tries to answer how
vulnerability modelling can help users understand the occurrence of
vulnerabilities so to avoid them, and what the advantages and
drawbacks of the existing models are to represent vulnerabilities. At
the same time, the workshop tries to understand how to solve the
challenging security testing problem, how security testing is
different from and related to classical functional testing, and how to
assess the quality of security testing. This is in particular
interesting since testing the mere functionality of a system alone is
already a fundamentally critical task. The objective of SECTEST
workshop is to share ideas, methods, techniques, and tools about
vulnerability modelling and security testing to improve the state of
the art. In particular, the workshop aims at providing a forum for
practitioners and researchers to exchange ideas, perspectives on
problems, and solutions. Both papers proposing novel models, methods,
and algorithms and reporting experiences applying existing methods on
case studies and industrial examples are welcome. The topics of
interest include, but are not restricted to:

 o   network security testing
 o   application security testing
 o   security requirements definition and modelling
 o   security and vulnerability modelling
 o   secure interoperability
 o   runtime monitoring of security‐relevant applications
 o   security testing of legacy systems
 o   cost effectiveness issues
 o   comparisons between security‐by‐design and formal analyses
 o   formal techniques for security testing and validation
 o   security test generation and oracle derivation
 o   specifying testable security constraints
 o   test automation
 o   penetration testing
 o   regression testing for security
 o   robustness and fault tolerance to attacks
 o   test-driven diagnosis of security weaknesses
 o   process and models for designing and testing secure system
 o   when to perform security analysis and testing
 o   "white box" security testing techniques
 o   compile time fault detection and program verification
 o   tools and case studies
 o   industrial experience reports



:: Submission

We solicit both full papers (8 pages) and short papers (2 pages) in
IEEE two-column format. We also solicit demonstrations of security
testing tools (4 pages). All submissions will be
peer-reviewed. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their
paper will be presented at the workshop. Authors are invited to submit
their papers electronically, as portable document format (pdf);
please, do not send files formatted for work processing packages
(e.g., Microsoft Word or Wordperfect files). The only mechanism for
paper submissions is via EasyChair.


:: Publication

The proceedings will be published in the IEEE digital library.

:: Workshop Chairs

Ana Cavalli (Telecom SudParis, France)
Matthias Büchler (Technische Universitàt München, Germany)
Yafei Yang (Qualcomm Inc., USA)

:: Important Dates

Papers due: January 7, 2014
Notification: February 4, 2014
Camera-ready due: February 18, 2014