Workshop on FORmal methods for Security Engineering (ins) S

4th International Workshop on FORmal methods for Security Engineering - ForSE 2020 25 - 27 February, 2020 - Valletta, Malta
In conjunction with the 6th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy - ICISSP 2020

CO-CHAIRS
Antonella Santone University of Molise Italy

Brief Bio
Antonella Santone was born in Montreal (Canada) on June 13, 1969. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Molise since September 2017. She received the Laurea degree in Computer Science at the University of Pisa, Italy, in April 1993. In September 1997 she received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Systems Engineering at the Dipartimento di Ingegneria della Informazione, University of Pisa. She has been Assistant Professor at the University of Pisa from November 1998 to October 2001. She has been an Associate Professor at the Department of Engineering of the University of Sannio from November 2001 to August 2017. She has been President of the Didactical Committee of the master's degree in Computer Science Engineering, University of Sannio, from the academic year 2005/2006 to the academic year 2013/2014. She has been President of the Didactical Committee of the degree in Computer Science Engineering, University of Sannio, from the academic year 2011/2012 to the academic year 2013/2014. She has been President of the CampusOne Project. From 2006 to 2009 she has been a member of the Socrates/Erasmus Committee of the Faculty of Engineering, University of Sannio. From 2009 to 2012 she has been President of the Orientation Committee of the Faculty of Engineering, University of Sannio. She was involved in several research activities and projects. Antonella Santone's current research is focused on formal verification methods. Her research interests include formal description techniques, temporal logic, concurrent and distributed systems modelling, heuristic search, formal methods in systems biology and in security engineering. She has written more than one hundred papers for international journals and conferences.

Francesco Mercaldo
Institute of Informatics and Telematics of Pisa CNR Italy

Brief Bio
Francesco Mercaldo received his master degree in computer engineering from the University of Sannio (Benevento, Italy), with a thesis in software testing. He obtained his Ph.D. in 2015 with a dissertation on malware analysis using machine learning techniques. The research areas of Francesco are software testing, verification, and validation, with the emphasis on the application of empirical methods. Currently, he is working as a post-doctoral researcher at the Istituto di Informatica e Telematica, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) in Pisa (Italy). He is also involved as lecturer in Database, Operating Systems (Bachelor Degree) and Software Security (Master Degree) courses at the University of Molise (Italy).

SCOPE
The huge diffusion of computational capabilities in embedded systems, cars, smart houses, smartphones, biomedical infrastructures, e-health and the penetration of computers and software in enterprises of every dimension have led to an enormous number of victims of cyber attacks. Formal methods are techniques used to mathematically model systems in order to verify properties in a thorough fashion. Thus, formal methods offer the potential to develop secure systems. However, the communities of formal methods and security were not closely collaborating together in the past on solving such important research problems. The aim of the ForSE workshop is to encourage the integration between these two communities towards development of secure and malware resistant systems, thus bridging the existing gap.

TOPICS

• Topics of interest cover, but are not limited to, application of formal methods techniques relating to:
• New principles for qualitative and quantitative security analysis
• Software tools and methodologies to the development and the analysis of secure systems
• Securing private data on mobile devices
• Mobile security
• Security of critical infrastructures
• Biomedical infrastructures security
• Biomedical data privacy
• Fraud detection
• Security for Complex System
• Security and privacy in Internet of Things (IoT)
• Design and verification of malware detection systems
• Security in Smart Grid
• Security in Social Networks
• Intrusion detection
• Cloud security
• Forensics
• Big Data security
• Network security
• Identification and analysis of Malware
• Security Verification and Validation
• Machine Learning
• Security testing for industrial automation systems
• Cyber Insurance
• Safety and security-critical systems
• IMPORTANT DATES
• Paper Submission: December 19, 2019
• Authors Notification: January 9, 2020
• Camera Ready and Registration: January 17, 2020

SCOPE
The International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy aims at creating a meeting point for researchers and practitioners that address security and privacy challenges that concern information systems, especially in organizations, including not only technological issues but also social issues. The conference welcomes papers of either practical or theoretical nature, presenting research or applications addressing all aspects of security and privacy, that concerns to organizations and individuals, thus creating new research opportunities.

CONFERENCE TOPICS

• Access and Usage Control
• Risk and Reputation Management
• Security and Privacy in Cloud and Pervasive Computing
• Authentication, Privacy and Security Models
• Security Architecture and Design Analysis
• Security Awareness and Education
• Security Frameworks, Architectures and Protocols
• Security Testing
• Software Security Assurance
• Threat Awareness
• Vulnerability Analysis and Countermeasures
• Information Hiding and Anonymity
• Web Applications and Services
• Biometric Technologies and Applications
• Content Protection and Digital Rights Management
• Cryptographic Algorithms
• Data and Software Security
• Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
• Database Security
• Identity and Trust Management
• Trusted Computing
• Intrusion Detection and Response
• Legal and Regulatory Issues
• Malware Detection
• Mobile Systems Security
• Privacy Metrics and Control
• Privacy, Security and Trust in Social Media
• Privacy-Enhancing Models and Technologies
• Security in IoT and Edge Computing
• Distributed Ledgers and Blockchain Technologies and Applications
• AI and Machine Learning for Security

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