CFTIC 2020: 1st International Workshop on Cyber Forensics and Threat Investigations Challenges in Emerging Infrastructures Dubai, UAE, December 14-17, 2020 |
Conference website | https://cfati2.conceptechint.net/index.html |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cftic2020 |
Abstract registration deadline | September 30, 2020 |
Submission deadline | October 15, 2020 |
Final Manuscript Due | November 15, 2020 |
1st International Workshop on Cyber Forensics and Threat Investigations Challenges in Emerging Infrastructures (CFTIC 2020), December 14-17 2020, Dubai, UAE.
The increasing proliferation of global cyber-attacks at a frightening rate has been facilitated by the connectivity growth using wired and wireless communication technologies between various heterogeneous systems. These attacks dangerously aim a broad array of computing systems varying from data centers and personal machines to mobile devices and industrial control systems. The deficiency of existing cyber-defenses and strategies may hinder the ability of security practitioners in applying suitable and timely reactions against these threats. Additionally, the inadequacies in existing digital investigation techniques and tools pose many challenges related to determining the identity of the threat actors, discovering the root vulnerability to impede any subsequent exploitation of a related event, and identifying the threat actors’ motivations for the development of an efficient cybersecurity defense strategies.
Cyber forensics and threat investigations has rapidly emerged as a new field to provide the key elements for maintaining the next generation of emerging infrastructures such as service-oriented architecture and cloud environments, secure, reliable, and trustworthy, where all future internet services and applications will be hosted and running. In this regard, a rethinking in the current digital investigations’ practices, methods, and tools are required in order to adapt to this new context. The usage of traditional methods may lead to the loss of valuable data hosted on various types of remote or uncommon cyber-infrastructures and causes a struggle to find relevant evidential data, this impact will continue to expand in the forthcoming years.
The main motivation for this Workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners working on cyber forensics and threat investigations for emerging infrastructures to disseminate current research issues and advances. Original technical papers describing new, state-of-the-art research, will be considered. The Workshop welcomes submissions that evaluate existing research results by reproducing experiments. The aim of this workshop is to provide insight for the discussion of the major research challenges and achievements on various topics of interest.
CFTIC 2020 will be held in conjunction with the 18th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2020) which is co-organized on December 14-17 2020, Dubai, UAE.
Important Dates
Papers Submission Due: Extended October 14th, 2020
Final Manuscript Due: November 15, 2020
WebSite : https://cfati2.conceptechint.net/index.html
Scope of The Workshop:
Papers on practical as well as on theoretical topics and problems in various topics related to cyber forensics and threat investigations are invited, with special emphasis on novel techniques and tools to collect data from networked devices and services in emerging infrastructures (such as the ones can be found in wireless and mobile computing, cloud/edge/fog computing, service-oriented architecture, cyber-physical systems, and Internet of things). Topics include (but are not limited to):
- Digital evidence search and seizure in emerging infrastructures
- Forensics soundness in emerging infrastructures
- Cybercrime investigation in emerging infrastructures
- Incident handling in emerging infrastructures
- eDiscovery in emerging infrastructures
- Forensics readiness in emerging infrastructures
- Challenges for digital investigations in emerging infrastructures
- Legal aspect of digital investigations in emerging infrastructures
- Tools and practices for digital investigations in emerging infrastructures
- Case studies related to digital investigations in emerging infrastructures
- digital investigations -as-a-Service
- Criminal profiling and reconstruction in the cloud
- Big data implications for digital investigations in emerging infrastructures
- Current and future trends for digital investigations in emerging infrastructures
We also encourage contributions describing innovative work in the realm of cybersecurity, cyber defense, and digital crimes.
The workshop solicits outstanding original research and industry papers on all aspects of cyber forensics and threat investigations. Papers should clearly demonstrate the research/practical contribution(s) or a solid vision, the relevance to the field, and the relationship to prior work. Submitted papers to the research and industry tracks will be evaluated according to their rigor, significance, originality, maturity, technical quality, exposition, in addition to the practical/industrial value of the contribution. All papers will be reviewed by at least three members of the Workshop Committee.
Paper Format
Papers should be formatted according to Springer’s LNCS Formatting Guidelines. Submissions must be in English and must not exceed 15 pages. All papers must be submitted electronically to the Conference Submission System. Each paper must be submitted on or before the provided deadlines. Authors are kindly invited to respect the submission deadline. The limit length of accepted papers should be 15 pages (including abstract, figures and references) with a maximum of 2 extra paid pages (90EUR per extra page). The final submission should be formatted according to Springer’s LNCS Camera ready instructions.For each accepted paper for any track, at least one author must attend the conference and present the paper. The deadline for identifying and registering this individual author will be at the time when the camera-ready version is submitted.
Publication
All accepted papers will be included in the Workshop Proceedings published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. All papers in LNCS will also be indexed by Scopus and Engineering Village (Ei). This includes EI Compendex. All accepted papers will also be indexed in DBLP.
Selective Outstanding Papers
Selected papers presented at the workshop, after further revision, will have the opportunity to be published in special issues in indexed and/or high impact (details will be put online shortly)
Organizing Committee
Workshop Program Chair
John William Walker, Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom.
Ahmed Elmesiry, University of South Wales, United Kingdom
Workshop Coordinator
Mamoun Qasem, University of South Wales, United Kingdom
Technical Program Committee
Rossana M. de Castro Andrade, Federal University of Ceará, Brazil
Ali Jwaid, De Montfort University, United Kingdom
Karima Boudaoud, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France
Dmitri Botvich, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland
Tawfik Al-Hadhrami, Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom
Mohamed Aborizka, Arab Academy for Science, Technology, Egypt
Main Contact:
If you have any further questions please contact the workshop organizers via https://cfati2.conceptechint.net/contact.html