6TH IEEE/IFIP Workshop on Security for Emerging Distributed Network Technologies (DISSECT)
Co-located with IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2020
Budapest, Hungary
Latest Updates
- The workshop program is available below.
- The submission deadline for research papers is Jan. 5th, 2020
- DISSECT 2020 website is online!
DISSECT 2020 Program
Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, DISSECT will run this year as a virtual conference on the Friday morning, April 24.9:00am - 11:00am
Technical Session I: long papers
Chair: Thibault Cholez
Location: WebEx link TBD
- Hardening X.509 Certificate Issuance using Distributed Ledger Technology
Holger Kinkelin, Richard von Seck, Germany Georg Carle, Technical University of Munich, Germany. - Decision Support for Mission-Centric Network Security Management
Michal Javorník, Jana Komarkova, Luká Sadlek, Martin Husak, Masaryk University, Czech Republic. - Clustering IoT Malware based on Binary Similarity
Márton Bak, Dorottya Papp, Csongor Tamás, Levente Buttyán, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary. - Scan Correlation - Revealing distributed scan campaigns
Steffen Haas, Florian Wilkens, Mathias Fischer, University Hamburg, Germany.
11:00am - 12:00am
Technical Session II: short papers
Chair: Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis
Location: WebEx link TBD
- Citrus: Orchestrating Security Mechanisms via Adversarial Deception
Ryan Mills, Matthew Broadbent, Nicholas Race, Lancaster University, Great Britain. - A Privacy-Aware Collaborative DDoS Defense Network
Carol Fung, Yadunandan Pillai, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA. - A framework for automatic firewalls configuration via argumentation reasoning
Erisa Karafili, University of Southampton, Great Britain ; Fulvio Valenza, Politecnico di Torino, Italy ; Yichen Chen, Imperial College London, Great Britain ; Emil Lupu, Imperial College, Great Britain.
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, BlockChain, 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 2020 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
- SDN or 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
- Denial of service mitigaton
- Cloud network security