Der Call for Papers für die vierte internationale Konferenz zu IT-Security Incident Management und IT-Forensik (IMF2008) ist veröffentlicht. Interessierte sind aufgerufen, bis zum 1. Juni 2008 wissenschaftliche Papiere (full papers) oder Praxispapiere (practice papers) einzureichen. Daneben können auch Vorschläge zu Workshops eingereicht werden.
Das RUS-CERT fungiert als Mitveranstalter der IMF-Konferenzreihe.

		IMF 2008 4th International Conference on IT-Incident Management & IT-Forensics September 23 - 25, 2008 Mannheim, Germany
		http://www.imf-conference.org/ mailto:2008@imf-conference.org A Conference of SIG SIDAR of the German Informatics Society (GI).

Call for Papers
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. Although security usually gets involved in the design process of IT systems nowadays, the process of maintaining security in the operation of IT infrastructures, in most cases, still lacks the appropriate attention. The capability to manage and respond to IT security incidents and their forensic analysis are not well established. The quickly rising number of security incidents worldwide makes the implementation of incident management capabilities essential. In order to advance the fields of IT Security Incident Management and IT Forensics the special interest-group "Security Intrusion Detection and Response" (SIDAR) of the German Informatics Society (GI) organizes an annual conference, providing a platform for experts from throughout the world, to discuss the state of the art in the areas of IT Security Incident Management and IT Forensics (IMF). IMF promotes collaboration and exchange of ideas between industry, academia, law-enforcement and other government bodies. The IMF conference will be held for the fourth time in 2008. The concept matured from a pure academic event to an academic track section complemented by practical workshops. In addition, IMF has become an important community event. This year IMF starts to travel. The Mannheim University of Cooperative Education (Berufsakademie Mannheim) will host the fourth IMF. It is planned to continue to find hosts for IMF at different locations in order to widen the community and to learn from different perspectives.

Scope
The scope of IMF 2008 is broad and includes, but is not limited to the following areas:
IT Security Incident Management

• Purposes of IT Security Incident Management
• Trends, Processes and Methods of IT Security Incident Management
• Formats and Standardization for IT Security Incident Management
• Tools for IT Security Incident Management
• Education and Training, IT Security Incident Management Awareness
• Determination, Detection and Evaluation of Security Incidents
• Procedures for Handling Incidents Problems and Challenges when establishing CERTs/ CSIRTs
• Sources of Information/Information Exchange/Communities
• Management of published and unpublished ("less-than-zero-day") vulnerabilities
  • Analysis, description, and evaluation of vulnerabilities
  • Vulnerability Response
  • legal and political aspects
• Early Warning Systems
• Organizations (National CERT-Associations, FIRST, TF-CSIRT, TERENA / TI, etc.)

• Trends and Challenges in IT Forensics
• Methods, Processes and Applications for IT Forensics (e.g. Networks, Operating Systems, Storage Media, ICT Systems)
• Evidence Protection in IT-Environments
• Standardization of Evidence Protection Processes Data Protection and other legal implications for IT Forensics Methods in Investigations
• Legal Relevance of IT Forensics Investigations
• Tools for IT Forensics
• IT Forensics Readiness

IMF invites to submit:

• Full papers of up to 20 pages, presenting novel and mature research results.
• Practice papers of up to 20 pages, describing best practices, case studies, lessons learned, or latest product developments.
• Proposals for Workshops: Discussion and presentation on practical methods and challenges.

Important Dates
June 1, 2008: Deadline for submission of papers
June 23, 2008: Notification of acceptance or rejection
July 14, 2008: Final paper camera ready copy due
September 23-25, 2008: IMF 2008 conference

Location / Local Organisation
Prof. Dr. H.J. Mueller
Berufsakademie Mannheim
Coblitzweg 1-7
68163 Mannheim

Conference Chair
Dirk Schadt
SPOT Consulting

Program Chair
Oliver Goebel
RUS-CERT
Universität Stuttgart

Program Committee

Sponsor Chair
Dirk Schadt
SPOT Consulting
mailto dirk.schadt @ spot.net

Sponsorship Opportunities
We solicit interested organizations to serve as sponsors for IMF 2008. Please contact the Sponsor Chair for information regarding corporate sponsorship.

Organizer / Under the Auspices of
Special Interest Group SIDAR of the German Informatics Society (GI e.V.)
Wissenschaftszentrum Ahrstr. 45
53175 Bonn
Germany

In Co-operation with
IEEE Computer Society
SPOT Consulting
Fraunhofer Institut für Arbeitswirtschaft und Organisation, IAO
RUS-CERT, Universität Stuttgart

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