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[IMF 2009] 3rd Call - Deadline Extended



Dear all,

the deadline for the submission of papers 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
=====================
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
================
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
=================
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
------------
* 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
===========
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
===================
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
=================
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
================
Dirk Schadt
SPOT Consulting
mailto: chair-2009 @ imf-conference.org


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


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
====================
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

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Best wishes
Ollie
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Oliver Goebel                        mailto:Goebel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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/