[Om-announce] Call for participation: First IEEE Workshop on Security and Privacy in the Cloud (SPC 2015)

[kne at zurich.ibm.com]

Dear all,

Sorry for a duplicated posting, the call for participation was missing in my previous email. Please have a look at the program and consider participating in this workshop.

Best,
Nikola

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

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First IEEE Workshop on Security and Privacy in the Cloud (SPC 2015)
Florence, Italy - September 30, 2015
http://www.zurich.ibm.com/spc2015/
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** Register by August 31, 2015 to enjoy the early bird rate! **
** Special discount for combined registration (conference+workshop) **


ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and 
practitioners who are interested in discussing the security, privacy,
and data protection issues emerging in cloud scenarios, and possible
solutions to them.
IEEE SPC 2015 will be held in Florence, Italy, on September 30, 2015
in conjunction with the IEEE Conference on Communications and 
Network Security (CNS 2015).

The workshop will be a 1-day event, featuring one keynote talk 
(Pierangela Samarati, Universita' degli Studi di Milano) and 
SPC technical program (9 full papers and 8 short papers). 


REGISTRATION
Registration information is available at:
http://cns2015.ieee-cns.org/registration

Early registration fees apply until August 31, 2015.
Special discount for combined registration (conference + workshop).


HOTEL AND VENUE
Information on the workshop venue is available at:
http://cns2015.ieee-cns.org/travel


PROGRAM

08:30 - 08:40: Opening Remarks

08:40 - 09:30: KEYNOTE TALK
  Enforceable Security in the Cloud to Uphold Data Ownership 
  Pierangela Samarati 
  Universita' degli Studi di Milano

09:30 - 10:45: SESSION 1
               PRIVACY PRESERVING DATA PROCESSING
               (chair: Alexandra Shulman-Peleg)
               
- Highly Scalable Verifiable Encrypted Search
  (Rosario Gennaro, Emmanuel Ekwedike, Whitney Drazen)

- Privacy-Preserving Distributed Statistical Computation to a 
  Semi-Honest Multi-Cloud
  (Aida Calvino, Sara Ricci, Josep Domingo-Ferrer)

- Privacy Preserving Cloud Computing through Piecewise Approximation
  of Multivariate Functions
  (Riccardo Lazzeretti, Tommaso Pignata)

10:45 - 11:15: Coffee Break

11:15 - 12:55: SESSION 2
               CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE SECURITY AND RISK ASSESSMENT
               
- A Firewall Algebra for OpenStack
  (Simon Foley, Ultan Neville)

- All Your Cluster-Grids Are Belong to Us: Monitoring the (in)Security
  of Infrastructure Monitoring Systems
  (Andrei Costin)

- Securing the Infrastructure and the Workloads of Linux Containers
  (Massimiliano Mattetti, Alexandra Shulman-Peleg, Yair Allouche, 
  Antonio Corradi, Shlomi Dolev, Luca Foschini)

- An Integrated Method for Compliance and Risk Assessment: 
  Experiences from a Case Study
  (Samson Esayas, Tobias Mahler, Fredrik Seehusen, Frode Bjornstad, 
  Veda Brubakk)

12:55 - 14:00: Lunch

14:00 - 16:00: SESSION 3
               ENCRYPTION FOR DATA PROTECTION IN THE CLOUD 
               (chair: Rosario Gennaro)
               
- Efficient and Scalable Aggregate Signcryption Scheme Based on 
  Multi-trapdoor Hash Functions
  (Santosh Chandrasekhar, Mukesh Singhal)

- Publicly Verifiable Conjunctive Keyword Search in Outsourced 
  Databases
  (Monir Azraoui, Kaoutar Elkhiyaoui, Melek Onen, Refik Molva)

- Integer Arithmetic over Ciphertext and Homomorphic Data Aggregation 
  [short paper] 
  (Yao Chen, Guang Gong)

- Windowing Technique for Lazy Sorting of Encrypted Data [short paper]
  (Ayantika Chatterjee, Indranil Sen Gupta)

- Secure Cloud Storage: a Framework for Data Protection as a
  Service in the Multi-cloud Environment [short paper]
  (Quang Hieu Vu, Maurizio Colombo, Rasool Asal, Ali Sajjad, 
  Fadi El-moussa, Theo Dimitrakos)
  
- Self-Protecting Multi-Cloud Applications [short paper]
  (Antonio M. Ortiz Torres, Erkuden Rios, Wissam Mallouli, 
  Eider Iturbe, Edgardo Montes de Oca)

16:00 - 16:30: Coffee Break

16:30 - 17:40: SESSION 4
               AUTHENTICATION AND IDENTITY MANAGEMENT, AND IOT 
               (chair: Aida Calvino)

- Identity as a Service: A Cloud Based Common Capability [short paper]
  (Gery Ducatel)
  
- Identity Management in IoT Clouds: a FIWARE Case of Study 
  [short paper]
  (Luciano Barreto, Antonio Celesti, Maria Fazio, Massimo Villari, 
  Antonio Puliafito)

- A Traceable Hierachical Attribute-based Authentication Solution
  for the Cloud [short paper]
  (Huihui Yang, Vladimir Oleshchuk)
  
- Pulga, a Tiny Open-Source MQTT Broker for Flexible and Secure 
  IoT Deployments [short paper]
  (Jose Luis Espinosa-Aranda, Noelia Vallez, Sanchez-Bueno,
  Daniel Aguado-Araujo, Gloria Bueno, Oscar Deniz)



MORE INFORMATION
Additional information about the workshop can be found at:
www.zurich.ibm.com/spc2015