Note: Proceedings will be published by IEEE. Author notifications will be in
mid-February, several weeks before the deadline for DFRWS.
Call For Papers
IEEE/SADFE-2010: Fifth International Workshop on Systematic Approaches to
Digital Forensic Engineering
In conjunction with the IEEE Security and Privacy Symposium,
Oakland, CA, USA, May 20, 2010
Paper submissions due: January 16, 2010
http://conf.ncku.edu.tw/sadfe/sadfe10/ or contact Dr. Endicott-Popovsky at
[email protected] for additional information.
The SADFE (Systematic Approaches to Digital Forensic Engineering) International
Workshop promotes systematic approaches to computer investigations, by
furthering the advancement of digital forensic engineering as a disciplined
science and practice.
Most previous SADFE papers have emphasized cyber crime investigations and
digital forensics tools. While these are still key topics of the meeting, we
also welcome digital forensics papers that do not necessarily involve either
crime or digital forensics tools. General attack analysis, the insider threat,
insurance and compliance investigations, similar forms of retrospective
analysis, and digital discovery are all viable topics. Digital forensic
engineering is the application of scientific principles to the collection and
analysis of digital artifacts, either for use within the legal system or to aid
in understanding past events with the goal of improving computer system
security.
Past speakers and attendees of SADFE have included computer and information
scientists, social scientists, digital forensic practitioners, IT
professionals, law enforcement, lawyers, and judges. The synthesis of science
with practice and the law with technology form the foundation of this
conference.
Workshop Topics
The field of digital forensics faces many challenges, including scale, scope
and presentation of highly technical information in legal venues to
nontechnical audiences.
Digital artifacts permeate our lives and are part of every crime and every case
of digital discovery. Digital artifacts may be extant for only nanoseconds or
for years; they may consist of a single modified bit, or huge volumes of data;
they may be found locally or spread globally throughout a complex digital
infrastructure on public or private systems.
Today's digital crime scene is an active network with network administrators
functioning as first responders, using tools and devices for collecting data
that were never designed to meet the admissibility standards of a courtroom.
"Although, many computer crimes [and civil cases] have thus far been plea-bargained,
eliminating exposure to challenge in a courtroom, with the increasing cost of computer
crimes and the increasing criminal penalties associated with them, more cases will find
their way into the courtroom and challenges are inevitable" [Peter Sommer, London
School of Economics].
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SADFE addresses the gap between today?s practice and the establishment of
digital forensics as a science. To advance the field, SADFE-2010 solicits
broad-based, innovative approaches to digital forensic engineering in the
following four areas:
Digital Data and Evidence Management: advanced digital evidence discovery,
collection, and storage
* Identification, authentication and collection of digital
evidence
* Post-collection handling of evidence and the preservation of
data integrity and admissibility
* Evidence preservation, archiving and storage
* Forensic ready and compliance ready architectures and
processes, including network processes
* Managing geographically, politically and/or jurisdictionally
dispersed data artifacts
* Data and web mining systems for identification and
authentication of relevant data
* Botnet forensics
Scientific Principle-based Digital Forensic Processes: systematic engineering
processes supporting digital evidence management which are sound on scientific,
technical and legal grounds
* Legal and technical aspects of admissibility and evidence tests
* Examination environments for digital data
* Courtroom expert witness and case presentation
* Case studies illustrating privacy, legal and legislative issues
* Forensic tool validation: legal implications and issues
* Legal and privacy implications for digital and computational
forensic analysis
* Handling increasing volumes of digital discovery
Digital Evidence Analytics: advanced digital evidence analysis, correlation,
and presentation
* Advanced search, analysis, and presentation of digital evidence
* Cyber crime scenario analysis and reconstruction technologies
* Legal case construction & digital evidence support
* Cyber-crime strategy analysis & modeling
* Combining digital and non-digital evidence
* Supporting qualitative or statistical evidence
* Computational systems and computational forensic analysis
Forensic-support technologies: forensic-enabled and proactive
monitoring/response
* Forensics of embedded or non-traditional devices (e.g.
digicams, cell phones, SCADA)
* Innovative forensic engineering tools and applications
* Proactive forensic-enabled support for incident response
* Forensic tool validation: methodologies and principles
* Legal and technical collaboration
* Digital forensics surveillance technology and procedures
* "Honeypot" and other target systems for data collection and
monitoring
* quantitative attack impact assessment
Instructions for Paper and Panel Submissions
The SADFE-2010 Program Committee invites three types of submissions:
Full papers
Full papers present mature research results. Papers accepted for presentation
at the Workshop will be included in the SADFE-2010 proceedings, which we
anticipate will be published by IEEE Press. Full papers should be 8-12 pages
when formatted according to IEEE guidelines. Papers must include an abstract
and a list of keywords, and clearly indicate the corresponding author.
"Work-in-Progress" short papers
These shorter papers should describe interesting developing work or concepts in
the field of digital forensic engineering. These papers should emphasize the
nature of the problem they present, potential solution and implications/impacts
to the field, in such a way that it will engender community discussion. A
selection of these papers will be presented at SADFE-2010 in a Work-in-Progress
session. Work-in-Progress papers should be 3-5 pages long. Work-in-Progress
papers will be included as an appendix in the SADFE-2009 proceedings. Authors
may participate in only one Work-in-Progress paper (in the case of multiple
submissions, later submissions will be deleted).
Posters
Describing work in progress and/or specific tools available without charge to
the research community (ie, no vendor posters should be submitted). Submissions
must consist of a one-page abstract. Posters will not be included in the
proceedings. Authors of selected posters will have an opportunity to briefly
introduce their work during the meeting.
Paper Acceptance
Each paper submission will be reviewed by at least three SADFE-2010 Program
Committee members. The selection process will be based on review technical
merits. Panel and posters decisions will be made by the Program Chair with
recommendations from the Program Committee and Steering Committee.
Double Submissions, Uniqueness & Presentation
SADFE-2010 is intended to support discussion and publication of novel results.
To meet this goal, submissions must not substantially duplicate work that any
of the authors has published elsewhere. Work submitted in parallel to any other
conference or workshop with proceedings is explicitly excluded from
participation. If the work has been submitted elsewhere in a venue that does
not include proceedings, the extent of the replication and the nature of the
other venue should be clearly indicated in a cover letter submitted along with
the paper. Finally, plagiarism has no place in the scholarly community and the
program committee reserves the right to notify employers and/or others of any
confirmed cases of plagiarism.
For accepted Full Papers, Posters, and Work-in-Progress papers, it is required
that at least one of the authors attends the conference to present the paper.
The presenting author must be registered by the date of the camera-ready
submission deadline. The deadline for Work-in-Progress and Full papers is the
same.
All submissions (papers & panel proposals) must be submitted electronically,
following the instructions to be provided on the website. Papers must list all
authors and their affiliations; in the case of multiple authors, the contact author
must be indicated.
Workshop Format
The SADFE workshop will consist of invited talks, paper presentations and panel
discussions. All presentations, talks and panel discussions will be made in
English.
Steering Committee:
Deb Frincke, co-chair Pacific Northwest National Labs
Ming-Yuh Huang, co-chair The Boeing Company
Chi Sung Laih National Cheng Kung University
Michael Losavio University of Louisville
Alec Yasinsac University of South Alabama
Organizing Committee:
General Co-Chairs: Carol Taylor
(Eastern Washington University)
Robert Erbacher
(Utah State University)
Program Committee Co-Chairs: Barbara Endicott-Popovsky
(University of Washington)
Wenke Lee
(Georgia Institute of
Technology)
Submission Chair: Adel Elmaghraby
(University of Louisville)
Website Host: Chi Sung Laih
(National Cheng Kung University)
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