EC2ND 2009



The 5th European Conference on Computer Network Defence will take place in November 2009 at the Politecnico di Milano technical university in Milano, Italy.


 * ec2nd.org

The theme of the conference is the protection of computer networks. The conference will draw participants from academia and industry in Europe and beyond to discuss hot topics in applied network and systems security.

EC2ND invites submissions presenting novel ideas at an early stage with the intention to act as a discussion forum and feedback channel for promising, innovative security research. While our goal is to solicit ideas that are not completely worked out, and might have challenging and interesting open questions, we expect submissions to be supported by some evidence of feasibility or preliminary quantitative results.

Topics include but are not limited to:


 * Intrusion Detection
 * Denial-of-Service
 * Privacy Protection
 * Security Policy
 * Peer-to-Peer and Grid Security
 * Network Monitoring
 * Web Security
 * Vulnerability Management and Tracking
 * Network Forensics
 * Wireless and Mobile Security
 * Cryptography
 * Network Discovery and Mapping
 * Incident Response and Management
 * Malicious Software
 * Web Services Security
 * Legal and Ethical Issues

The conference will be technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society - Italy Chapter.

Submitting a Paper
You are hereby invited to submit papers up to 6-8 pages, 8.5" x 11", two-column format. We particularly encourage position papers on preliminary work that shows promise, rather than mature and well-polished papers. Surprising results and thought-provoking ideas will be strongly favored. All submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee. Authors of accepted papers will be given the option of including their paper in the proceedings of the conference.

We suggest you to format your paper according to IEEE-CS guidelines: http://www.computer.org/portal/pages/cscps/cps/cps_forms.html

Important Dates

 * Submissions due:   September 15th, 2009
 * Reviews due:       October 1st, 2009
 * Notification:      October 15th, 2009
 * Final papers due:  November 1st, 2009

Conference Location
The conference will be held at the Politecnico di Milano University in Milan, Italy.

Organizers

 * General chair: Stefano Zanero, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
 * Publicity chair: Federico Maggi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
 * Website manager: Manolis Stamatogiannakis, FORTH-ICS, Greece

Program Committee

 * Kostas Anagnostakis, I2R, Singapore
 * Davide Balzarotti, Eurecom, France
 * Wayne L. Bethea, Johns Hopkins University, USA
 * Marco Cremonini, University of Milan, Italy
 * Eric Cronin, University of Pennsylvania, USA
 * Sandro Etalle, Eindhoven Technical University and University of Twente, Netherlands
 * Stefanos Gritzalis, University of the Aegean, Greece
 * Thorsten Holz, University of Mannheim, Germany
 * Sotiris Ioannidis, FORTH-ICS, Greece
 * Engin Kirda, Eurecom, France
 * Pavel Laskov, University of Tuebingen, Germany
 * Tieyan Li, I2R, Singapore
 * Paolo Milani Comparetti, TUV, Austria
 * George Mohay, QUT, Australia
 * Cyril Onwubiko, Research Series, UK
 * Philippe Owezarski, LAAS-CNRS, France
 * Michalis Polychronakis, FORTH-ICS and University of Crete, Greece
 * George C. Polyzos, AUEB, Greece
 * Carlos Ribeiro, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal
 * Panos Trimintzios, ENISA
 * Theo Tryfonas, University of Bristol, UK
 * Stefano Zanero, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Steering Committee

 * Panos Trimintzios, ENISA
 * Kostas Anagnostakis, I2R, Singapore
 * Andrew Blyth, University of Glamorgan, UK
 * Sotiris Ioannidis, FORTH-ICS, Greece
 * Evangelos Markatos, FORTH-ICS, Greece