[DFSci] [IMF 2009] 3rd Call for Papers - Deadline Extended

Thu May 28 05:48:50 PDT 2009

Dear all,

The deadline for the submission of papers for IMF 2009 has been extended.

Accepted papers will be published in IEEE Computer Society's Conference
Proceedings Series and be available in the IEEE online Digital Library.

Please excuse possible cross-postings.

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                         3rd CALL FOR PAPERS

                              IMF 2009

                     5th International Conference
          on IT Security Incident Management & IT Forensics

                     September 15th - 17th, 2009
                          Stuttgart, Germany

                          DEADLINE EXTENSION 

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PAPER SUBMISSION
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The deadline for paper submissions has been extended to June 8th, 2009.  
Notification of acceptance will be sent on June 22nd. 
Camera ready paper copies must be submitted until June 26th, 2009.

Papers can be submitted via the page found at:
http://www.imf-conference.org/imf2009/submission.html

Accepted papers will be published in IEEE Computer Society's Conference
Proceedings Series and be available in the IEEE online Digital Library.

CONFERENCE BACKGROUND
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Information and communication technology is more and more becoming an
integral and in most cases even a vital part of life.  The worldwide
economy, public administration, health care, education and even personal
life depend on working IT.  Constriction of the availability of its service,
loss of confidentiality or alteration of data processed, or loss of
integrity of the IT infrastructure usually lead to serious or disastrous
consequences.  Hence security plays an increasingly important role for
operators and users of IT systems and infrastructures.

The establishment of static security measures like policies, standards, and
guidelines slowly but steadily is getting more common amongst IT operators.
Nevertheless in the vast majority of cases operators do not have the
capability to detect and respond to security incidents or do a forensic
analysis of its traces that can be used in a lawsuit.
Jurisdiction in most countries is starting to change and applies regulations
on legal duty to maintain safety on operators of IT.  Hence incident
response capabilities become indispensable to avoid successful assertion of
claims for damages caused by compromised or misused systems.

CONFERENCE GOALS
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IMF's intent is to gather experts from throughout the world in order to
present and discuss recent technical and methodical advances in the fields
of IT security incident response and management and IT forensics.
The conference provides a platform for collaboration and exchange of ideas
between industry, academia, law-enforcement and other government bodies.

CONFERENCE TOPICS
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The scope of IMF 2009 is broad and includes, but is not limited to the
following areas:

IT Incident Response
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* Procedures and Methods of Incident Response
* Formats and Standardization for Incident Response
* Tools Supporting Incident Response
* Incident Analysis
* CERTs/CSIRTs
* Sources of Information, Information Exchange, Communities
* Dealing with Vulnerabilities (Vulnerability Response)
* Monitoring and Early Warning
* Education and Training
* Organizations
* Legal Aspects (Jurisdiction, Applicable Laws and Regulations)

IT Forensics
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* Trends and Challenges in IT Forensics
* Techniques, Tools in Procedures IT Forensics
* Methods for the Gathering, Handling, Processing and Analysis of
  Digital Evidence
* Evidence Protection in IT Environments
* Standardization in IT Forensics
* Education and Training
* Organizations
* Legal Aspects (Jurisdiction, Applicable Laws and Regulations)

Submission Details
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IMF invites to submit full papers of up to 20 pages, presenting novel and
mature research results as well as practice papers of up to 20 pages,
describing best practices, case studies or lessons learned.
Proposals for workshops, discussion and presentation on practical methods
and challenges are also welcome.

All submissions must be written in English (see below), and either in
postscript or PDF format.  Authors of accepted papers must ensure that their
papers will be presented at the conference.

Submitted full papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been
published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference
with proceedings.

All submissions will be reviewed by the program committee and papers
accepted to be presented at the conference will be included in the
conference proceedings.

Papers can be submitted via the page found at:
http://www.imf-conference.org/imf2009/submission.html

Details on the electronic submission procedure as well as detailed
registration information and formatting instructions are provided on the
conference web site (http://www.imf-conference.org).

Language
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IMF 2009's scope is international hence all submissions must be written in
English. Presentations of accepted papers must be done in English.

Publication
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Accepted papers will be published in IEEE Computer Society's Conference
Proceedings Series and be available in the IEEE online Digital Library as
well as the IEEE Index.  Each participant of the conference will receive a
printed copy.

Dates and Deadlines
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The deadline for paper submissions is June 8th, 2009.  Notification of
acceptance will be sent on June 22nd, 2009. 
Camera ready paper copies are due on June 26th, 2009.

June 8th, 2009: Deadline for submissions June 22nd, 2009: Notification of
acceptance or rejection June 26th, 2009: Final paper camera ready copy due
September 15th through 17th, 2009: IMF 2009 Conference

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Susan Brenner		University of Dayton, USA
Jack Cole		US Army Research Laboratory, USA
Andrew Cormack		JANET, UK
Ralf Doerrie		Germany
Ralf Ehlert		Universitaet Magdeburg, Germany
Felix Freiling		Universitaet Mannheim, Germany
Sandra Frings		Fraunhofer IAO, Germany
Oliver Goebel		Universitaet Stuttgart, Germany
Detlef Guenther		Corporate Internal Audit, Volkswagen AG, Germany
Vijay K. Gurbani	Bell Labs, USA
Bernhard M. Haemmerli	ACRIS GmbH, Switzerland
Jim Lyle		NIST, USA
Robert Martin		MITRE Corp., USA
Holger Morgenstern	gutachten.info, Germany
Henning Pagnia		Berufsakademie Mannheim, Germany
Dirk Schadt		SPOT, Germany
Albert Schaenzle	Landeskriminalamt Baden Wuerttemberg, Germany
Mark Schiller		Statton Security Ltd, UK
Andreas Schuster	Deutsche Telekom, Germany
Marco Thorbruegge	ENISA, EU
Stephen D. Wolthusen	Royal Holloway, Univ. of London, UK
Steven W. Wood		Alste Technologies GmbH, Germany

CONFERENCE CHAIR
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Dirk Schadt
SPOT Consulting
mailto: chair-2009 @ imf-conference.org

PROGRAM CHAIR
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Oliver Goebel
RUS-CERT
Universitaet Stuttgart
mailto: pc-chair-2009 @ imf-conference.org

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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Ralf Ehlert
Sandra Frings
Oliver Goebel
Detlef Guenther
Holger Morgenstern
Dirk Schadt

STEERING COMMITTEE
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Sandra Frings
Oliver Goebel
Detlef Guenther
Jens Nedon
Dirk Schadt

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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see: http://www.imf-conference.org

UNDER THE AUSPICES OF
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German Informatics Society (GI e.V.)
Wissenschaftszentrum Ahrstr. 45, 53175 Bonn, Germany
Tel.: +49 228 302 145, Fax: +49 228 302 167 Special Interest Group SIDAR
http://www.gi-ev.de/allgemeines/index-english.html

IN CO-OPERATION WITH
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IEEE Computer Society
SPOT Consulting
Fraunhofer Institut fuer Arbeitswirtschaft und Organisation IAO Universitaet
Stuttgart, RUS-CERT

SPONSORSHIP
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We invite interested organizations to serve as sponsors for IMF 2009; please
contact the Sponsor Chair, Detlef Guenther, for information regarding
corporate sponsorship
mailto: sponsor-chair-2009 @ imf-conference.org