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SAFECONFIG 2010
http://hci.sis.uncc.edu/safeconfig/ CALL FOR PAPERS 2nd ACM Workshop on Assurable & Usable Security Configuration (SafeConfig) October 4, 2010 Collocated with ACM CCS 2010 A typical enterprise network might have hundreds of security appliances such as firewalls, IPSec gateways, IDS/IPS, authentication servers, authorization/RBAC servers and crypto systems. An enterprise network may also have other non-security devices such as routers, name servers, protocol gateways, etc. These must be logically integrated into a security architecture satisfying security goals at and across multiple networks. Logical integration is accomplished by consistently setting thousands of configuration variables and rules on the devices. The configuration must be constantly adapted to optimize protection and block prospective attacks. The configuration must be tuned to balance security with usability. These challenges are compounded by the deployment of mobile devices and ad hoc networks. The resulting security configuration complexity places a heavy burden on both regular users and experienced administrators and dramatically reduces overall network assurability and usability. For example, a December 2008 report from Center for Strategic and International Studies "Securing Cyberspace for the 44th Presidency" states that "inappropriate or incorrect security configurations ... were responsible for 80% of Air Force vulnerabilities" and a May 2008 report from Juniper Networks "What is Behind Network Downtime?" states that "human factors ... [are] responsible for 50 to 80 percent of network device outages." This workshop will bring together academic as well as industry researchers to exchange experiences, discuss challenges and propose solutions for offering assurable and usable security. This workshop will consist of presentations and panel discussions on the following topics: Topics but are not limited to - Integrating network and host configuration - Automated forensics and mitigation - Usability issues in security management - Metrics for measuring assurability and usability: Usable security often involves trade offs between security or privacy and usability/utility - Abstract models and languages for configuration specification - Configuration refinement and enforcement - Formal semantics of security policies - Configuration testing, debugging and evaluation - Representation of belief, trust, and risk in security policies - Configuration/misconfiguration visualization - Configuration reasoning and conflict analysis - Risk adaptive configuration systems - Context-aware security configuration for pervasive and mobile computing - Configuration accountability - Automated signature and patch management - Automated alarm management - Protecting the privacy and integrity of security configuration - Optimizing security, flexibility and performance - Measurable metric of flexibility and usability - Design for flexibility and manageability ? clean slate approach - Configuration management vs. least-privilege - Configuration management and delegation issues in name resolution - Configuration and policy issue in inter-domain routing - Configuration management issues in virtualized environments - Configuration Management case studies or user studies Papers must present original work and must be written in English. We require that the authors use the ACM format for papers, using one of the ACM SIG Proceeding Templates, http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. We solicit two types of papers, regular papers and position papers. The length of the regular papers in the proceedings format should not exceed 8 US letter pages, excluding well-marked appendices. Committee members are not required to read the appendices, so papers must be intelligible without them. Position papers may not exceed 4 pages. Papers are to be submitted electronically as a single PDF file. Further submission details will be available on-line. The accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings and the ACM Digital Library in accordance with ACM copyright policy. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the conference. Submission instructions will be available at http://hci.sis.uncc.edu/safeconfig/ . Important Dates: Abstract Registration: June 7 (optional) Submission: June 28 Notification: August 6 Camera Ready: August 16 Organizing Committee Steering Committee: Ehab Al-Shaer, UNC Charlotte Jorge Lobo, IBM Watson Sanjai Narain, Telcordia General Chair: Tony Sager, National Security Agency TPC Co-Chairs: Gail-Joon Ahn, Arizona State University Krishna Kant, Intel/NSF Heather Richter Lipford, UNC Charlotte Technical Program Committee: Elisa Bertino, Purdue University Konstantin Beznosov, University of British Columbia Lorrie Cranor, Carnegie Mellon University Dipankar Dasgupta, Univ. of Memphis Trent Jaeger, Pennsylvania State University Chin-Tser Huang, University of South Carolina John Karat, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center George Kesidis, Pennsylvania State University Kyung-Hee Lee, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology Hong Li, Intel Corporation Ninghui Li, Purdue University Alex Liu, Michigan State University Emil Lupu, Imperial College Roy Maxion, Carnegie Mellon University Xinming Ou, Kansas State University Sanjay Rao, Purdue University Indrajit Ray, Colorado State University Mohamed Shehab, UNC Charlotte Subhabrata Sen, AT&T Labs Rajesh Talpade, Telcordia Sreedhar Vugranam, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Jeff Yan, Newcastle University |
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