5TH IEEE/IFIP Workshop on Security for Emerging Distributed Network Technologies (DISSECT)
Security for the Next Wave of Cyber and Social Networks
Co-located with IEEE/IFIP IM 2019
Washington D.C., USA
Latest Updates
- The preliminary workshop program is online!
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We are pleased to announce that Dr. Abdelkader Lahmadi, Associate Professor at University of Lorraine (France), will deliver a keynote during DISSECT 2019! Dr. Lahmadi will provide an overview of the challenges behind making a network self-driving and explain why this is difficult and hard. He will also cover most recent and prominent work on construction of self-driving networks, in particular to meet network security goals. For further information, 
We are pleased to announce that Weverton Cordeiro, Assistant Professor @ UFRGS (Brazil), will deliver a keynote during DISSECT 2019! Dr. Cordeiro will cover techniques they have been developing in the context of the P4Sec project, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Bazilian Education and Research Network (RNP) to verify and enforce security properties in data plane networks, and about research on novel approaches to ensure that network security properties are satisfied by a network configuration that is based on data plane enforcement. For further information, Older News
- The submission deadline was extended to Jan. 5th, 2019
- The submission deadline for research papers is Dec. 15th, 2018
- DISSECT 2019 website is online!
The computer networking landscape is subject to a multitude of changes that occur very rapidly. First, paradigm shifts such as fog computing, mobile edge computing, Named Data Networking (NDN) and emerging open networking technologies such as Software-Defined Networking (SDN), Network Function Virtualization (NFV), and Programmable Networks are reshaping the way networks are designed, deployed, and managed. The benefits are manifold, including an unprecedented flexibility for network operation and management, and a favorable environment for delivering innovative network applications and services. However, those paradigm shifts bring a multitude of security challenges that have to be addressed in order to provide secure, trustworthy, and privacy-preserving data communication and network services. Second, large scale and distributed deployment of mobile communications, Internet-of-Things (IoT), Intelligent Transport Systems, smart grids or industrial systems has become real but also emphasizes particular privacy and security issues to be overcome, especially when interconnected with Internet.
Addressing all these challenges may require not only revisiting existing solutions (e.g., for intrusion detection, privacy preserving, and resilience against attacks), but also designing novel security and resilience schemes tailored to the specific design of open networking technologies and infrastructures. New types of attacks and threats also appear against usual services over Internet such as DNS or routing. DISSECT 2019 follows the track of its four previous editions, and will put focus on security issues and challenges arising with the emergence of novel networking technologies and paradigms but also on new threats emerging against former services and technologies, towards a secure cognitive management in a cyber-world. The workshop will shed light on new challenges and present state-of-the-art research on the various security aspects of next-generation networking technologies and service management frameworks.
DISSECT will offer a venue for bringing together students, researchers, and professionals from academia and industry sharing common interest on security challenges related to the design and management of the distributed networks and infrastructures. DISSECT is intended to (1) discussing these challenges as well as future trends on security management, (2) presenting and discussing work-in-progress security-related research on cutting-edge technologies, and (3) strengthening collaboration and research ties among peers.
Topics of Interest
The research community will be invited to contribute with manuscripts describing novel, work-in-progress research on the design of solutions to relevant security issues on a wide variety of next generation networking technologies. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following
- Secure and resilient design and deployment of open networking technologies
- Privacy-preserving solutions
- Security models and threats
- Security and privacy properties and policies
- Verification and enforcement of security properties
- Trust and identity management
- NFV-based security functions and services
- Security of software-defined infrastructures, protocols and interfaces
- Threat modeling
- Security measurement and monitoring
- Industrial Control System security
- Security and availability management
- Security for Internet of Things
- Intrusion detection, resilience, and prevention
- Honeypots
- Network forensics and auditing
- Detection and resilience against large-scale distributed attacks
- Security of programmable components
- Security-related business and legal aspects
- Security challenges and trends for open networking technologies
- Secure programmable data plane
- Collaborative intrusion detection
- Blockchain and distributed consensus