25 October 2021

International Workshop on Data Leakage Protection and Trustworthiness in Health Data


( To be held in conjunction with The 25th IEEE International EDOC Conference - EDOC 2021)

at Gold Coast, Australia

The accepted workshop papers will be published in EDOC 2021 conference workshop proceedings.

Submissions should be made electronically via EasyChair in PDF format and must comply with the IEEE Computer Society Conference Proceedings Format Guidelines.

About the Workshop

Data leakage is the accidental or intended unauthorized transmission of data from an organization to unintended recipients. Data leakage threats can originate internally or externally via email, web, mobile data storage devices such as USB drives and laptops. Data leakage protection (DLP) is an approach to detect data leakage and/or ensure end-users do not send confidential or sensitive information outside of the enterprise network. These strategies may involve a combination of user and security policies and security monitoring, detection, and prevention tools. This DLP track of this workshop focuses on DLP response mechanisms to detect data leakage, protect and prevent data in all its shapes, such as text, images within an organization, on the cloud, or edge, from the risk of getting leaked accidentally or intentionally.

Moreover, requirements for future healthcare data management are likely to include increased volume and diversity, shared between an increasingly diverse range of people (e.g. practitioners, specialists, patients) and organisations (e.g. healthcare providers, technology providers, and social services). Regardless of the architecture used, a key enabler of interoperability is the clarification of “trust”. The Trustworthiness in health data track of this workshop will explore key aspects of trust, relevant trust-based concepts, and suitable semantic repository technologies capable of supporting a federated, community-oriented approach.

Workshop Objectives

The workshop aims to bring together practitioners, researchers, academics, and students to explore key aspects of data classification, protection, monitoring, ongoing adaptive control approaches to value, manage and sustain data, trust, relevant trust-based concepts, and suitable semantic repository technologies capable of supporting a federated, community-oriented approach to health data governance and custodianship. This workshop provides support for professionals and researchers to design solutions, update the policies, and improve existing techniques to achieve desired outcomes. Participant experience will be used throughout the workshop to illustrate principles and connect practices to participants' work in data management, security, privacy and trust.

The topics of interests include, but are not limited to:

Track 1

Data Leakage Protection (DLP)


  • Cloud/Edge data sharing security and privacy.

  • Data identification, marking, or classification techniques.

  • Dynamic data protection techniques.

  • Big data leakage resilient methodologies.

  • Secure Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) environments.

  • Data leakage detection from Cloud, edge, fog, IoT, or Mobile applications.

  • Countermeasures against data leakage in Cloud, edge, fog, IoT, and Mobile applications.

  • Data leakage in medical records and images.

  • Data leakage detection mechanisms for text, images, or videos.

  • Data loss prevention and its mechanisms for cloud, edge, mobile, and embedded systems.

  • Leakages of information from encrypted data.

  • Methods of remediation after data leakage incidents.

  • Methods to detect and trace the agent/device that leaked the data.

  • Forensic investigation methods for data leakage attacks.

  • Data leakage controls for unstructured or transformed data.

  • Balancing data protection and privacy preservation techniques.

Track 2

Trustworthiness in Health Data


  • The growing list of parties that have an interest in accessing health-related data

  • The fuzzy boundary between personal health data and other personal data

  • Limits of deidentification of health data and guidelines for aggregating regional health data into sharable formats that are of value to medical researchers

  • Working definitions of the data subject, data author, data custodian, data attester, data owner, authorised user, the delegation of authority, data user rights, commercial data use, etc that are encountered in practice, and the question to what extent these terms even make sense or can be defined in an adequate way for enforceable legislation

  • All relevant aspects of trust, including the trustworthiness of people and institutions that work with health data, trust in the technical capability of the people and institutions that work with health data, the trustworthiness of the systems tasked with storing and transmitting health data, trust in the adequacy of locally/globally enforceable legislation for health data governance, etc.

  • Analysis of national/regional/organisational health data governance policies from perspectives that relate to trust.

Organizing Committee


  • Prof Michael Sheng, Department of Computing, Macquarie University

  • Dr. Jorn Bettin, S23M – Collaboration for Life

  • Salma Abdalla Hamad, Department of Computing, Macquarie University

  • Dr. Pete Rive, S23M – Collaboration for Life

Program Committee

  • Sira Yongchareon, Auckland University

  • Zawar Hussain, Macquarie University

  • Pasquale De Meo, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

  • Yan Yan, Lanzhou University of Technology

  • Xiu Susie Fang, Macquarie University

  • Faheem Ullah, The University of Adelaide

  • Xuyun Zhang, Macquarie University

  • Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology

  • Djamal Benslimane, Lyon 1 University

  • Athman Bouguettaya, The University of Sydney

  • Rajeswari Sridhar, Anna University

  • Wei Emma Zhang, The University of Adelaide

  • Seyedamin Pouriyeh, Kennesaw State University

  • Anne Ngu, Texas State University-San Marcos

  • Sherali Zeadally, University of Kentucky

  • Jian Yu, Auckland University of Technology

  • Shuang Wang, Southeast University

  • Yanjun Shu, Harbin Institute of Technology

Important Dates

• Workshop paper submission: 16 August 2021

• Workshop papers acceptance notification: 22 September 2021

• Workshop camera-ready papers due: 27 September 2021

• Author registration: 27 September 2021

• Workshops sessions: 25 October 2020

Submission Guidelines

Contact Information

Salma Hamad salma.hamad@mq.edu.au (Track 1 Enquires)

Jorn Bettin jorn.bettin@s23m.com (Track 2 Enquires)