Call For Papers
Cyber attacks are continuing to increase at an alarming rate, especially with the ever increasing nature of cyber connectivity. They target a wide variety of protocols and communication systems ranging from servers and end-user machines to wireless and mobile networks and devices. The absence of active cyber defense and strategy, and technically sound forensic methods may prevent administrators from making suitable decisions on time against threats, proving the identity of the guilty party, identifying the root vulnerability to prevent a future occurrence of a similar incident, and understanding the attacker’s motivation for an efficient design of cyber security solutions.
In this context, digital forensic engineering is emerging as a disciplined science in charge of developing novel scientific and theoretical methods, techniques, and approaches to collect, process, and analyze information retrieved from systems affected by security incidents to generate conclusive descriptions.
The fifth edition of the SFCS 2019 workshop will bring together researchers, scientists, engineers and practitioners involved in research in the fields of communication systems security and forensics, to present their latest research findings, ideas, and developments. The workshop will act as a forum for discussing open issues, and presenting original and unpublished research results and innovative ideas in the realm of security and digital forensics. We encourage contributions describing innovative work in the realm of cyber security, cyber defense, and digital forensics.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Formal and theoretical techniques of cyber security and forensics
- Legal and policy issues in cyber security and defense
- Availability, privacy, authentication, trust, access control, and key management
- Social networks security and forensics
- Intrusion Detection
- Incident response techniques in networked and distributed systems
- Security and privacy in wireless and mobile systems
- Cyber security engineering
- Risk analysis and management in cyber security
- Storage systems protection and forensics
- Economic and management aspects of cyber security and privacy
- Automated reasoning techniques of incidents and evidence analysis
- Evidentiary aspects and forensics of digital crimes
- Cyber scenarios modeling, analysis, and investigation
- Hypothetical reasoning in forensics and incident response
- Collaborative and distributed techniques for cyber defense and cyber investigation
- Active, adaptive, and intelligent defense systems
- Embedded security and device forensics
- Evidence preservation, management, storage and reassembly
- Anti-forensics and anti-anti forensics prevention, detection, and analysis
- Multimedia security and forensics
- Lightweight security techniques
- Large-scale security and investigation in large networks and Big Data
- Innovative forensic services
- Data visualization in forensic analysis
- Vulnerability analysis and assessment of cloud services
- Techniques for tracking and trace-back of attacks in networked and distributed systems
- Data hiding, extraction, and recovery technique
- Security and forensics in distributed, virtual, and cloud environments
- Cyber security architectures
- Defense in depth
- Cybersecurity of Industrial Control Systems and Cyber physical systems
- Security and forensics of critical infrastructures
- Supervisory control and data acquisition security
- Bio-inspired security
- Security of Application-oriented solutions (Healthcare, Military, Supply Chains, Environment, Agriculture, Smart cities, Education, ...)