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CALL FOR PAPERS

------------------------------------------- Network Data Anonymization (NDA) Workshop An ACM CCS workshop

October 31, 2008 Alexandria, VA, USA

http://www.ics.forth.gr/~antonat/nda08.html --------------------------------------------

Over the last decade, the network security community (and the Internet measurement community in general) has suffered from two fundamental and related problems: (1) a lack of "real" network data for research studies and prototype testing, and (2) a lack of network data sharing among organizations, which impedes cooperation in network defense; as attacks typically cross organizational boundaries, effective prevention requires defenders to look beyond their own perimeter in cooperation with other organizations.

Anonymization techniques are crucial for the safe sharing of network data. They are necessary to obscure certain identifying information (e.g., IP addresses) in order to protect the privacy of end users and the security of internal networks. While current network data anonymization techniques are generally acknowledged to be useful, it is difficult to ensure they are free from information leakage. Also, anonymization involves fundamental tradeoffs between the protection of user privacy and the utility of the resulting data, and these tradeoffs need to be better understood.

This workshop seeks to focus on new and innovative solutions for anonymizing network data that will ensure appropriate protection of host identities, network configurations, and network security practices within enterprise networks.

Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:

- data sharing via anonymization - privacy-preserving data mining - data anonymization tools - data anonymization policy creation/implementation - data anonymization case studies/best practices - streaming data anonymization - anonymization issues specific to network data - business services enabled by anonymization - data protection laws relevant to data anonymization

Papers submitted documenting attacks on anonymized systems are strongly encouraged to propose a corresponding protection solution. While the focus of this workshop is on network data anonymization, applications of anonymization to other data domains ( e.g., medical data, homeland security, reputation systems, government records, transportation etc.) are welcome if the authors include a statement of relevance.

---------------- Important Dates: ----------------

Paper submissions due: Sunday, May 25, 2008 Author notification: Monday, July 7, 2008 Camera ready papers due: Sunday, August 10, 2008 Workshop at CCS '08: Friday, October 31, 2008

--------------------- Organizing Committee: ---------------------

Bill Yurcik, University of Texas at Dallas (USA) [Program Chair] Spiros Antonatos, ICS-FORTH (Greece) Michele Bezzi, SAP Research (France) Elisa Boschi, Hitachi Europe (Switzerland) Brian Trammell, CERT/NetSA (USA)

---------------------------- Technical Program Committee: ----------------------------

Nikita Borisov, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA) Matthias Bossardt, KPMG (Switzerland) Nevil Brownlee, CAIDA/University of Auckland (New Zealand) KC Claffy, CAIDA/University of California San Diego (USA) Michael Collins, CERT/NetSA (USA) Marco Cremonini, University of Milan (Italy) Michalis Foukarakis, ICS-FORTH (Greece) Carrie Gates, CA Labs (USA) David Maltz, Microsoft (USA) John McHugh, Dalhousie University (Canada) Ruoming Pang, Google (USA) Stefano Paraboschi, University of Bergamo (Italy) Dave Plonka, University of Wisconsin at Madison (USA) Carsten Schmoll, Fraunhofer FOKUS (Germany) Tim Shimeall, CERT/NetSA (USA) Panos Trimintzios, European Network and Information Security Agency (Greece)

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