2^ndIEEE Workshop on Collaborative Security Technologies (CoSec '10)
Bangalore - 15th Dec 2010 at IMSAA'10

(Technical Co-sponsors - IEEE and IEEE ComSoc)

Workshop Theme

The severity of attacks on networks and critical infrastructures are on the rise over recent years and seem to continue to do so. Surprisingly at times, many of the attacks can be individually simple yet highly damaging due to their large-scale co-ordination and polymorphic replication with continuous self-upgradation using a mix of peer-to-peer and command-and-control architectures. Conventional approaches of single-hosted security defensives are becoming increasingly less effective in the face of such sophisticated and co-ordinated multi-front attacks using bot-nets of compromised always-on, always-connected computers. In contrast, a distributed defense pattern (not very different from multi-front attacks) shows promise both in terms of manageability, reduced operating costs and architectural simplicity. This broad area of defense using Collaborative Security technologies works on the principles of sharing

- information and knowledge for accelerating detection of and response to new attacks and threats;

- resources for increasing the efficiency and reducing resource consumption.

The 2nd International workshop on Collaborative Security Technologies aims to bring to forefront the innovative approaches that involve the use of collaborative methods for security and privacy. The central theme of this workshop is to focus attention on the collaborative and intelligent approaches towards design of security systems so as to make them more robust, energy-efficient and reliable. The 2010 workshop follows on the success of the 2009 workshop which published 4 long and 5 short papers out of 30 submissions.

Keynote # 1

Mobile Threat Trends: What's the Impact on Consumer and Corporate Users? - Selim Aissi, Chief Strategist, Mobile Security. Ultra Mobile Group. Intel Corporation.

With the ubiquity of Smartphones, the once-theoretical threats are now emerging as clear and present danger. Today, there are known viruses, Spyware, and even Botnet Clients targeted for Smartphones. The dangers from the resulting threats are on the mobile users, network operators, corporate infrastructures, financial institutions, and other key players that are penetrating the mobile ecosystem on a daily basis. Dr. Aissi will cover those emerging threats, their progressions, and impacts. He will also share industry trends in providing the necessary protections against emerging mobile threats. In particular, he will cover key OS, Application, and Hardware security approaches.

BIO:

Dr. Selim Aissi has over 17 years of computer industry experience, and was named in 2007 by the IT Security Magazine as one of the "Top 59 Most Influential Security Experts". He published over 30 journal and conference papers and co-authored the book "Security for Mobile Networks and Platforms" in 2006. Dr. Aissi has 43 Patents filed, and 10 USPTO/International Patents issued. Currently, he leads Intel's Strategic Planning for Security, Manageability, and Virtualization for Atom-based Smartphones. Before this role, he was the Lead Security Architect for the Mobile Platform Group, where he was responsible for defining security technologies for next-generation the Intel(R) Centrino(R) and vPro(TM) platforms. Selim was one of the originators and the Chief Architect for the Intel(R) Anti-Theft Technology (AT-p). During his 10-year tenure at Intel, he held several management and senior product architecture positions. He also played several senior technical evangelist and chief architect roles on software, mobile, security, and IT-related technologies. His R&D work was published at various journals including the Intel Technical Journal and the IEEE Computer Magazine. Before joining Intel, Selim held senior engineering positions at General Dynamics - Land Systems Division (M1A2 Battle Tank Vehicle Electronics), General Motors Corporation (Embedded Software Center of Excellence), and Applied Dynamics International. Dr. Aissi earned his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. engineering degrees from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Senior Member of IEEE, and member of ACM and ISACA. Dr. Aissi had served on the editorial and technical boards of over 30 technical journals and conferences (including Globecom, WPMC, MobicSec, WORLDCOMP, SecureWorld Conference, International Conference on Security and Management, Workshop on Advances in Trusted Computing, ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, International Wireless Summit, and the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing). As a recognized senior leader in Mobile Communications & Security, Dr. Aissi is often consulted by investment, technology and government leaders about mobile business and technical trends.

Keynote # 2

Privacy with Identity in the Future Internet and Cloud - Amardeo Sarma, NEC Laboratories, Europe.

BIO:

Amardeo C. Sarma received his Bachelor of Technology degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, in 1977 and his Master’s degree (Diplom-Ingenieur) from the Technical University of Darmstadt in 1980, both in Electrical Engineering. He is currently responsible as Senior Manager for Security and Identity Management at NEC Laboratories Europe in Heidelberg. Amardeo is Chairman of the ETSI Industry Specification Group on Identity and access management for Networks and Services (ISG INS). He is ACM Member and IEEE Senior Member.