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                            CALL FOR PAPERS

                               IMF 2011

                      6th International Conference
           on IT Security Incident Management & IT Forensics

                         May 10th - 12th, 2011
                          Stuttgart, Germany
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Conference Background
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IT-Security has become a steady concern for all entities operating
IT-Systems. These include enterprises, governmental and non-governmental
organizations, as well as individuals.  Yet, despite high-end
precautionary measures taken, not every attack or security mishap can be
prevented and hence incidents will go on happening.  In such cases
forensic capabilities in investigating incidents in both technical and
legal aspects are vital to understand their issue and feed back the
knowledge gained into the security process.  Documenting the measures
taken to prevent or minimize damage to own or external IT infrastructure
provides legal rear cover if an involved party decides to start
proceedings. In a possible lawsuit emerging from such an incident, its
treatment in a forensically proper way is crucial to be able to possibly
claim for damages or prevent from being threatened by claims of third
parties.  Thus, capable incident response and forensic procedures have
become an essential part of IT infrastructure operations.

In law enforcement IT forensics is an important branch and its
significance constantly increases since IT has become an essential part
in almost every aspect of daily life.  IT systems produce traces and
evidence in many ways that play a more and more relevant role in
resolving cases.


Conference Goals
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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 (both as users and solution providers), academia,
law-enforcement and other government bodies.


Conference Topics
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The scope of IMF 2011 is broad and includes, but is not limited to the
following areas:

IT Security Incident Response

- 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 and Enterprise Aspects (Jurisdiction, Applicable  Laws
  and Regulations)

IT Forensics

- Trends and Challenges in IT Forensics
- Application of forensic techniques in new areas
- 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 and Enterprise Aspects (Jurisdiction, Applicable Laws and
  Regulations)


Submission Details
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IMF invites to submit full papers, presenting novel and mature research
results as well as practice papers, describing best practices, case
studies or lessons learned of up to 20 pages.  Proposals for workshops,
discussions and presentations 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 elsewhere 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.

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 2011's scope is international hence all submissions must be written
in English.  Presentations of accepted papers also must be done in
English.


Publication
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Accepted papers will be published by the IEEE Computer Society's
Conference Publishing Services.  Each participant of the conference will
receive a printed copy.


Dates and Deadlines
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The deadline for paper submission is January 3rd, 2011.  Notification of
acceptance will be sent on January 31st, 2011 the latest.  You may get
your notification earlier than that.  Final camera ready copies of
accepted papers must me submitted until February 7th, 2011.

January 3rd, 2011:       Deadline for submissions
January 31st, 2011:      Notification of acceptance or rejection
February 7th, 2011:      Due date for final camera ready copies
May 10th to 12th, 2011:  IMF 2011 Conference


Conference Chair
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Detlef Guenther
Corporate Internal Audit, Volkswagen AG
chair-2011@imf-conference.org


Program Chair
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Holger Morgenstern
IT-Expert Witness, gutachten.info
pc-chair-2011@imf-conference.org


Sponsor Chair
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Jens Nedon
IT Security Consultant
sponsor-chair-2011@imf-conference.org


Organizing Committee
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Jack Cole
Ralf Ehlert
Sandra Frings
Oliver Goebel
Detlef Guenther
Stefan Kiltz
Holger Morgenstern
Jens Nedon
Dirk Schadt

Programm Committee
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Rafael Accorsi          Universitaet Freiburg, Germany
Susan Brenner           University of Dayton, USA
Jack Cole               US Army Research Laboratory, USA
Andrew Cormack          JANET, UK
Andreas Dondera         Landeskriminalamt Hamburg, Germany
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         Volkswagen AG, Germany
Vijay K. Gurbani        Bell Labs, USA
Alexander Herrigel      Abraxas Informatik AG, Switzerland
Stefan Kiltz            Universitaet Magdeburg, Germany
Bernhard M. Haemmerli   ACRIS GmbH, Switzerland
Jim Lyle                NIST, USA
Robert Martin           MITRE Corp., USA
Holger Morgenstern      gutachten.info, Germany
Jens Nedon              Germany
Dirk Schadt             SPOT, 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

Steering Committee
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Sandra Frings
Oliver Goebel
Detlef Guenther
Jens Nedon
Dirk Schadt


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
http://www.gi-ev.de/english/at-a-glance.html

Special Interest Group SIDAR
http://www.gi-fg-sidar.de/


In Co-Operation with
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IEEE Computer Society
SPOT Consulting
gutachten.info
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 2011;
please contact the Sponsor Chair, Jens Nedon, for information regarding
corporate sponsorship (sponsor-chair-2011@imf-conference.org).

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Ollie
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Oliver Goebel                        mailto:Goebel@CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE
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/