3rd International Conference on Cyber Conflict (ICCC 2011)
Venue: The Drama Theatre
Event Date/Time: Jun 07, 2011 | End Date/Time: Jun 10, 2011 |
Paper Submission Date: Jan 20, 2011 |
Description
The International Conference on Cyber Conflict is the Cooperative
Cyber Defence Centre Of Excellence 3rd annual event that brings
together strategic, technical and legal experts to discuss current
key aspects of cyber conflicts (see http://www.ccdcoe.org/ICCC).
In 2011 the conference will focus on combination of defensive and
offensive aspects of Cyber Forces and will combine different
views on cyber defence and operations in the current and envisaged
threat environments. This shall not be limited to military
perspective. Legal, strategic and technical submissions are welcome
on equal grounds.
The conference program will also feature a number of keynote
lectures to be delivered by distinguished world-class experts. The
conference will articulate itself in two parallel tracks:
Concepts, Strategy & Law
and
Technical
Challenges & Solutions
Topics
Relevant topics for both tracks include, but are not limited to:
1) Creation and Management of
Cyber Forces
Country case studies: theory and practice
Training and exercises for cyber operations
Human Resources management (selection, recruitment,
evaluation, training, retention)
Role of volunteers, mercenaries, private sector
Organisational aspects: command & control structures,
coalitions and alliances
Doctrine of using cyber power, deterrence
2) Cyber Battlefield
Intelligence
Tactical and Operational issues: target selection, validation
and prioritisation, collateral damage, risk management, traffic flow
analysis
Attribution and anonymity
Information gathering from the underground hacker community
Situational awareness and management in cyberspace
Heuristic and early warning notification, event
identification, data correlation and ranking
Data exfiltration: prevention, detection and mitigation
3) The Nature of Cyber Weapons
Definition, development and use of cyber weapons and defence
tools
Strategic use of botnets and malware
Zero-day attacks and how to cope with them
Discovering and mitigating vulnerabilities
Automated use of cyber weapons or defense means and the
liability for their effects
4) Advanced Technologies
Cooperative Cyber Defence on a technical level
Cyber attack and defence modelling and simulation
Automated cyber attack and defence systems
Artificial Intelligence in cyber attack and defence
Secure and robust system implementations (network redundancy
and resiliency)
Visualisation for situation awareness
Submission of papers and
publication
Authors are invited to submit original unpublished papers (up to
6000 words). Submitted papers will be subject to a double-blind
review process. All accepted papers will be published in the printed
conference proceedings with ISBN reference and made digitally
available through IEEE Xplore. The proceedings will be indexed by
international indexers like crossref.org and the CCD COE will apply
for indexation of the papers by Thomson Reuters Conference
Proceedings Citation Index.
Submission details, author’s guidance and others practical
information will be available on our website at
www.ccdcoe.org/ICCC/cfp.
Manuscripts must be uploaded electronically to
www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iccc3.
You will have to create an account for doing so.