CALL FOR PAPERS -- VMSEC 2008 1ST Workshop on Virtual Machine Security (VMSEC) http://csis.gmu.edu/VMSec/ Held in conjunction with the ACM Conference on Computer & Communications Security (ACM-CCS) October 31, 2008, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030 Important Dates Paper submission deadline: June 2, 2008 Paper acceptance or rejection: July 10, 2008 Final paper camera-ready copy: August 5, 2008 This workshop, the first of its kind to deal exclusively with virtual machine security, will tackle the important research topics in virtualization security. Virtualization has seen an explosion in growth in deployment, implementations, and applications. Virtualization holds unique properties that make it very attractive for security including isolation, compartmentalization, live state capture, recovery and replay. Virtualization has been used to study malicious software as well as to prevent malicious software infection. In addition, virtualization itself is now the subject of attack. This workshop aims to bring together leading researchers in the fields of virtualization and security to present the latest work on these topics. Scope and topics o Applications of virtualization for security o Security and integrity of virtual machines o Detecting virtualization o Evading virtualization o Trapping malicious code via virtualization o Economic implications of virtualization o Attacks and vulnerabilities against virtualization environments o Honey Nets and Honey Client architectures, systems, and results o Management and control of virtual machine farms for security o Forensics using virtualization o Enhancing privacy and anonymity using virtualization o Measuring security and performance of virtualization o Instrumentation and control of virtualization o Performance optimization of virtual machines o Performance and security analysis of lightweight virtualization o Virtualization for mobile devices o Vulnerabilities in virtualization environments Paper Submission Research submissions should be at most 12 pages excluding the bibliography and well-marked appendices using single-column, 11-point font and reasonable margins on letter-size paper, and at most 15 pages total. Committee members are not required to read the appendices, and so the paper should be intelligible without them. Position papers should be at most 3 pages long in total using the same guidelines as above. Submissions need not be anonymized. Organizing Committee Program Chairs Jason Nieh, Columbia University Angelos Stavrou, George Mason University Program Committee Manuel Costa, Microsoft Research Leendert van Doorn, AMD Tal Garfinkel, Stanford University and VMware Anup Ghosh, George Mason University Trent Jaeger, Pennsylvania State University Xuxian Jiang, George Mason University Sam King, University of Illinois Ophir Rachman, VMware Andrew Warfield, University of British Columbia