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IMF 2006 - 2nd Call for Papers



Dear all,

FYI:

This is the second call for papers for the IMF Conference 2006.

Please mind the submission dead line on 2006-04-17.

Please excuse possible cross-postings.

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                           2nd CALL FOR PAPERS

                                IMF  2006

                        International Conference on
                   IT-Incident Management & IT-Forensics

                           Stuttgart, Germany
                          October 18 - 19, 2006

                       http://www.imf-conference.org/
                        mailto:imf2006@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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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 integrated 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,
bringing together experts from throughout the world, to discuss 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:

 - Full papers of up to 20 pages, presenting novel and mature research
   results. Full papers will be reviewed, and papers accepted for
   presentation at the conference will be included in the proceedings.

 - Practice papers of up to 12 pages, describing best practices, case
   studies, lessons learned, or latest product developments. Practice papers
   will be reviewed.

The papers will be reviewed, and papers accepted for presentation at the
conference will be included in the proceedings, which are planned to appear
in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series (approval
pending).

The scope of IMF 2006 is broad and includes, but is not restricted to the
following areas:

IT-Incident Management:

  Purposes of IT-Incident Management
  Trends, Processes and Methods in Incident Management
  Formats and Standardisation in Incident Management
  Tools for Incident Management
  Education and Training in the field of 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
  Organisations (Nat. CERT-Associations, FIRST, TERENA/ TI, TF-CSIRT)

IT-Forensics:

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



ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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General Chair: Hardo G. Hase, Hase IT GmbH, Germany,
                imf2006 @ hase-bexbach.de

                Sandra Frings, Fraunhofer IAO, Germany
                Oliver Goebel, RUS-CERT, Stuttgart University, Germany
                Detlef Guenther, Volkswagen AG, Germany
                Jens Nedon, Consecur GmbH, Germany
                Dirk Schadt, Computer Assiociates, Germany


Program Chair: Oliver Goebel, RUS-CERT, Stuttgart University, Germany,
                Goebel @ CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE

Sponsor Chair: Dirk Schadt, Computer Associates, Germany,
                dirk.schadt @ gmail.com


PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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  Henrik Becker           Kanzlei Becker, Germany
  Vlasti Broucek          University of Tasmania, Australia
  Ian Bryant              NISCC, UK
  Brian Carrier           CERIAS, USA
  Andrew Cormack          UKERNA, UK
  Herve Debar             France Telecom, France
  Ralf Doerrie            Telekom-CERT, Germany
  Maximilian Dornseif     University of Mannheim, Germany
  Ulrich Emmert           esb Rechtsanwaelte Stuttgart, Germany
  Guenther Ennen          BSI/CERT-Bund, Germany
  Christoph Fischer       BFK-Consulting, Germany
  Sandra Frings           Fraunhofer IAO, Germany
  Oliver Goebel           RUS-CERT, Stuttgart University, Germany
  Dieter Gollmann         TU Hamburg-Harburg, Germany
  Detlef Guenther         CERT-VW, Volkswagen AG, Germany
  Bernhard Haemmerli      ACRIS GmbH, Switzerland
  Hardo G. Hase           IT-Consulting Hardo G. Hase, Germany
  Mark Hoestra            IT Forensic BV, Nethlerlands
  Klaus Peter Kossakowski DFN-CERT, Germany
  Thorsten Lieb           Avocado Rechtsanwaelte Frankfurt, Germany
  Jim Lyle                NIST CFTT, USA
  Neil Mitchison          Joint Reseach Centre, EU
  Jens Nedon              Consecur, Germany
  Jason Rafail            CERT/CC, USA
  Damir Rajnovic          CISCO-PSIRT, USA
  Gavin Reid              CISCO-INFOSEC, USA
  Dirk Schadt             CA, Germany
  Christian Schaller      SIEMENS-CERT, Germany
  Rolf Schulz             gnsec, Germany
  Marco Thorbruegge       IT Security Expert, Germany
  Helmut Ujen             Bundeskriminalamt, Germany
  Andreas Wagner          Frontrunner FZ LLC, Dubai
  Stephen Wolthusen       Gjovik University College, Norway

IMPORTANT DATES
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 - April 17, 2006: Deadline for submission of full and practice papers.
 - June 19, 2006: Notification of acceptance or rejection.
 - August 7, 2006: Final paper camera ready copy due.
 - October 18-19, 2006: IMF 2006 conference.


PAPER SUBMISSIONS AND CONFERENCE REGISTRATION
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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 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 at

          http://www.imf-conference.org/imf2006/submit.html

Please mind, that the all requirements of the LNCS must be met in
order to make the publication of the papers possible.

SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
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We solicit interested organizations to serve as sponsors for IMF 2006;
please contact the Sponsor Chair, Dirk Schadt, for information regarding
corporate sponsorship (mailto: dirk.schadt @ gmail.com).

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Regards
        Ollie
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Oliver Goebel                        mailto:Goebel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
RUS-CERT Stuttgart University        Tel:+49 711 121-3678 / -3688 (fax)
Breitscheidstr. 2, 70174 Stuttgart   http://CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE/