IMF 2006 International Conference on IT-Incident Management & IT-Forensics October 18 - 19, 2006 Stuttgart, Germany
		http://www.imf-conference.org/imf2006/ mailto:imf2006@gi-fg-sidar.de Conference of SIG SIDAR of the German Informatics Society (GI).

Call for Papers

Information technology has become crucial to almost every part of society. IT infrastructures have become critical in the world-wide economy, the financial sector, the health sector, the government's administration, the military, and the educational sector.

Due to its importance the disruption or loss of IT capabilities results in a massive reduction of operability. Hence, IT security is continously gaining importance.

Although security usually gets integrated into the design process of IT systems nowadays, the process of maintaining security in the operation of IT infrastructures still lacks the appropriate attendance in most cases. Especially the capability to manage and respond to IT security incidents and their forensic analysis is established in the rarest cases. The quickly rising number of security incidents worldwide makes the implementation of incident management capabilities essential.

In order to advance the fields of IT-Incident Management and Forensics the special interest-group Security - Intrusion Detection and Response (SIDAR) of the German Informatics Society (GI) organises an annual conference, bringing together experts from throughout the world, to discuss state of the art in the areas of Incident Management and IT-Forensics (IMF). IMF promotes collaboration and exchange of ideas between industry, academia, law-enforcement and other government bodies.

IMF invites to submit:

• Full papers of up to 20 pages, presenting novel and mature research results. Full papers will be reviewed, and papers accepted for presentation at the conference will be included in the proceedings.
• Practice papers of up to 12 pages, describing best practices, case studies, lessons learned, or latest product developments. Practice papers will be reviewed.

The scope of IMF 2006 is broad and includes, but is not restricted to the following areas:

IT-Incident Management:

• Purposes of IT-Incident Management
• Trends, Processes and Methods within IT-Incident Management
• Formats and Standardisation in the IT-Incident Management
• Tools for the IT-Incident Management
• Education and Training in the field of IT-Incident Management Awareness
• Determination, Detection and Evaluation of Incidents and Sensors
• Procedures for Handling Incidents
• Problems and Challenges while establishing CERTs/ CSIRTs
• Sources of Information/ Information Exchange/ Communities
• Dealing with Vulnerabilities (vulnerability response)
• Current Threats
• Early Warning System
• Organisations (Nat. CERT-Associations, FIRST, TERENA/ TI, TF-CSIRT)

• Trends and Challenges within IT-Forensics
• Methods, Processes and Applications for IT-Forensics ( Networks, Operating Systems, Storage Media, ICT-Systems etc.)
• Evidence Protection in IT-Environments
• Standardisation of Evidence Protection Processes
• Data Protection- and other legal implications for IT-Forensic Investigations
• Juristic Relevance of IT-Forensic Investigations
• Tools for IT-Forensics
• Forensic readiness

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

PAPER SUBMISSIONS AND CONFERENCE REGISTRATION

Paper submissions are accepted via the START conference manager only. Please use the following link:
https://www.softconf.com/starts/IMF2006/submit.html

All submissions must be in English, and in either postscript or PDF format.

Submitted full papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings.

Accepted papers must follow the format of Springer LNCS ( http://www.springeronline.com/lncs ) series. Guidelines and templates for manuscript preparation can be found at the Springer's Information for LNCS Authors site http://www.springer.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html (please use instructions for "Proceedings and Other Multiauthor Volumes" for different text processing platforms).

Submissions must be made via the "IMF-2006 Paper Submission Site"

SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

We solicit interested organizations to serve as sponsors for IMF 2006; please contact the Sponsor Chair, Dirk Schadt, for information regarding corporate sponsorship (mailto: dirk.schadt@ca.com).

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