Ninth Annual Conference
on Privacy, Security and Trust

Security Theme

Security addresses the various components of an information system that safeguard the data and associated infrastructure from unauthorized activity.  Topics of interest in this theme include (but are not limited to):l

• access control
• adaptive security and system management
• analysis of network and security protocols
• applications of cryptographic techniques
• attacks against networks and machines
• authentication and authorization of users, systems, and applications
• botnets
• critical infrastructure security
• firewall technologies
• forensics and diagnostics for security
• intrusion and anomaly detection and prevention
• malicious code analysis, anti-virus, anti-spyware
• network infrastructure security
• operating system security
• public safety and emergency management
• security architectures
• security in heterogeneous and large-scale environments
• techniques for developing secure systems
• Web security
• wireless and pervasive/ubiquitous computing security

Security Theme Chair:

Natalia Stakhanova
University of South Alabama, USA

Committee:

Michel Barbeau, Carleton University, Canada
Mike Burmester, Florida State University, US
Alvaro A. Cardenas, Fujitsu Laboratories, US
Anton Chuvakin, Security Warrior Consulting, US
Mathieu Couture, CRC, Canada
José M. Fernandez,  École *Polytechnique* *Montreal*, Canada
Thorsten Holz, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
Mohammed Houssaini Sqalli, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia
H. Gunes Kayacik,  Carleton University, Canada
David Lie, University of Toronto, Canada
Wei Lu, Keene State College, US
Xinming Ou, Kansas State University, US
Maria Papadaki,  University of Plymouth, UK
Nadia Tawbi,  Université Laval, Canada
Julie Thorpe,University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada
Issa Traore, University of Victoria, Canada
Isaac Woungang, Ryerson University, Canada
Alec Yasinsac, University of South Alabama, US
Nur Zincir-Heywood, Dalhousie University, Canada