Message-ID: <20070207231822.GH14578@cert.uni-stuttgart.de>
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 00:18:22 +0100
From: Oliver Goebel <goebel@...t.uni-stuttgart.de>
To: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Call for Papers: IT-Incident Management and IT-Forensics 2007

Dear all,

for your information.

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                             CALL FOR PAPERS

                                IMF 2007

                      3rd International Conference on
                   IT-Incident Management & IT-Forensics

                           Stuttgart, Germany
                         September 11 - 12, 2007

                       http://www.imf-conference.org/
                       mailto:2007@...-conference.org

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Information technology has become crucial to almost every part of society.
IT infrastructures have become critical in the world-wide economy, the
financial sector, the health sector, the government's administration, the
military, and the educational sector.

Due to its importance the disruption or loss of IT capabilities results in
a massive reduction of operability.  Hence, IT security is continously
gaining importance.

Although security usually gets involved into the design process of IT
systems nowadays, the process of maintaining security in the operation of IT
infrastructures still lacks the appropriate attendance in most cases.
Especially the capability to manage and respond to IT security incidents and
their forensic analysis is established in the rarest cases. The quickly
rising number of security incidents worldwide makes the implementation of
incident management capabilities essential.

In order to advance the fields of IT-Incident Management and Forensics
the special interest-group Security - Intrusion Detection and Response
(SIDAR) of the German Informatics Society (GI) organises an annual
conference in co-operation with Stuttgart University's Computer
Emergency Response Team (RUS-CERT) and the Fraunhofer Institute for
Industrial Engineering (IAO), bringing together experts from throughout
the world, to discuss the state of the art in the areas of Incident
Management and  IT-Forensics (IMF). IMF promotes collaboration and
exchange of ideas between industry, academia, law-enforcement and other
government bodies.

IMF invites to submit:
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 - Full papers of up to 20 pages, presenting novel and mature research
   results. 

 - Practice papers of up to 20 pages, describing best practices, case
   studies, lessons learned, or latest developments in technology. 

All submissions must be in English, and in either postscript or PDF
format.  Authors of accepted papers must ensure that their papers will
be presented  at the conference. Presentations should be held in
English.

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

Details on the electronic submission procedure as well as detailed
registration information are provided on the conference Web site.

The scope of IMF 2007 is broad and includes, but is not restricted to the
following areas:

 IT-Incident Management:

- Purposes of IT-Incident Management
- Trends, Processes and Methods of IT-Incident Management
- Formats and Standardization for IT-Incident Management
- Tools for the IT-Incident Management
- Education and Training in the field of IT-Incident Management Awareness
- Determination, Detection and Evaluation of Incidents
- Procedures for Handling Incidents
- Problems and Challenges while establishing CERTs/ CSIRTs
- Sources of Information/ Information Exchange/ Communities
- Dealing with Vulnerabilities (vulnerability response)
- Current Threats
- Early Warning Systems
- Organizations (Nat. CERT-Associations, FIRST, TERENA/ TI, TF-CSIRT,
  etc)

 IT-Forensics:

- Trends and Challenges in IT-Forensics
- Methods, Processes and Applications for IT-Forensics
  (Networks, Operating Systems, Storage Media, ICT Systems etc.)
- Evidence Protection in IT-Environments
- Standardization of Evidence Protection Processes
- Data Protection and other legal implications for IT-Forensics
- Methods in Investigation
- Legal Relevance of IT-Forensics Investigations
- Tools for IT-Forensics
- IT-Forensics Readiness

Important Dates:
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- May 14, 2007: Deadline for Submissions 
- June 26, 2007: Notification of acceptance or rejection
- July 17, 2007: Final paper camera ready copy due
- September 11-12, 2007: IMF 2007 Conference


General Chair:
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  Oliver Goebel, RUS-CERT, Universitaet Stuttgart
  goebel@...t.uni-stuttgart.de

Program Chair:
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 Sandra Frings, Fraunhofer IAO
  Sandra.Frings@....fraunhofer.de

Sponsor Chair:
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  Dirk Schadt, SPOT
  dirk.schadt@...il.com


Program Committee
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  see
  http://www.gi-ev.de/fachbereiche/sicherheit/fg/sidar/imf/imf2007/committee.html

Organizing Committee:
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  Sandra Frings, Fraunhofer IAO
  Oliver Goebel, RUS-CERT, Universitaet Stuttgart
  Detlef Guenther, Volkswagen AG
  Hardo G. Hase, IT-Consulting Hardo G. Hase
  Jens Nedon, Consecur GmbH
  Dirk Schadt, SPOT


IMF Steering Committee
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  Oliver Goebe
  Detlef Guenther
  Jens Nedon
  Dirk Schadt

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/fachbereiche/sicherheit/fg/sidar/ 

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Regards
-- 
Oliver Goebel                        mailto:Goebel@...T.Uni-Stuttgart.DE
Stabsstelle DV-Sicherheit (RUS-CERT) Tel:+49 711 685 1 CERT
Universitaet Stuttgart               Tel:+49 711 685 8-3678 / Fax:-3688
Breitscheidstr. 2, 70174 Stuttgart   http://CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE/

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