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                           CALL FOR PAPERS

                              IMF 2009

                     5th International Conference
          on IT Security Incident Management & IT Forensics

                     September 15th - 17th, 2009
                          Stuttgart, Germany

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CONFERENCE BACKGROUND
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Information and communication technology is more and more becoming an
integral and in most cases even a vital part of life.  The worldwide
economy, public administration, health care, education and even personal
life depend on working IT.  Constriction of the availability of its
service, loss of confidentiality or alteration of data processed, or
loss of integrity of the IT infrastructure usually lead to serious or
disastrous consequences.  Hence security plays an increasingly important
role for operators and users of IT systems and infrastructures.

The establishment of static security measures like policies, standards,
and guidelines slowly but steadily is getting more common amongst IT
operators.  Nevertheless in the vast majority of cases operators do not
have the capability to detect and respond to security incidents or do a
forensic analysis of its traces that can be used in a lawsuit.
Jurisdiction in most countries is starting to change and applies
regulations on legal duty to maintain safety on operators of IT.  Hence
incident response capabilities become indispensable to avoid successful
assertion of claims for damages caused by compromised or misused
systems.


CONFERENCE GOALS
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IMF's intent is to gather experts from throughout the world in order to
present and discuss recent technical and methodical advances in the
fields of IT security incident response and management and IT forensics.
The conference provides a platform for collaboration and exchange of
ideas between industry, academia, law-enforcement and other government
bodies.


CONFERENCE TOPICS
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The scope of IMF 2009 is broad and includes, but is not limited to the
following areas:

IT Incident Response
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* Procedures and Methods of Incident Response
* Formats and Standardization for Incident Response
* Tools Supporting Incident Response
* Incident Analysis
* CERTs/CSIRTs
* Sources of Information, Information Exchange, Communities
* Dealing with Vulnerabilities (Vulnerability Response)
* Monitoring and Early Warning
* Education and Training
* Organizations
* Legal Aspects (Jurisdiction, Applicable Laws and Regulations)

IT Forensics
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* Trends and Challenges in IT Forensics
* Techniques, Tools in Procedures IT Forensics
* Methods for the Gathering, Handling, Processing and Analysis of
 Digital Evidence
* Evidence Protection in IT Environments
* Standardization in IT Forensics
* Education and Training
* Organizations
* Legal Aspects (Jurisdiction, Applicable Laws and Regulations)


Submission Details
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IMF invites to submit full papers of up to 20 pages, presenting novel
and mature research results as well as practice papers of up to 20
pages, describing best practices, case studies or lessons learned.
Proposal for workshops, discussion and presentation on practical methods
and challenges are also welcome.

All submissions must be written in English (see below), and either in
postscript or PDF format.  Authors of accepted papers must ensure that
their papers will be presented at the conference.

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.

All submissions will be reviewed by the program committee and papers
accepted to be presented at the conference will be included in the
conference proceedings.

Details on the electronic submission procedure as well as detailed
registration information and formatting instructions are provided on
the conference web site (http://www.imf-conference.org).


Language
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IMF 2009's scope is international hence all submissions must be written
in English. Presentations of accepted papers also must be done in
English.


Publication
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Accepted papers will be published in IEEE Computer Society's  Conference
Publishing Series. Each participant of the conference will receive a
printed copy.


Dates and Deadlines
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The deadline for paper submission is May 18th, 2009. Notification of
acceptance will be sent on June 8th, 2009 the latest. You may get your
notification earlier than that. Final paper camera ready copy are due
to June 19th, 2009.

* May 18th, 2009:  Deadline for Submissions
* June 8th, 2009: Notification of acceptance or rejection
* June 19th, 2009: Final paper camera ready copy due
* September 15th - 17th, 2009: IMF 2009 Conference





CONFERENCE CHAIR
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Dirk Schadt
SPOT Consulting
mailto: chair-2009 @ imf-conference.org


PROGRAM CHAIR
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Oliver Goebel
RUS-CERT
Universitaet Stuttgart
mailto: pc-chair-2009 @ imf-conference.org


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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Ralf Ehlert
Sandra Frings
Oliver Goebel
Detlef Guenther
Holger Morgenstern
Dirk Schadt


STEERING COMMITTEE
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Sandra Frings
Oliver Goebel
Detlef Guenther
Jens Nedon
Dirk Schadt


PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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see: http://www.imf-conference.org


UNDER THE AUSPICES OF
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German Informatics Society (GI e.V.)
Wissenschaftszentrum Ahrstr. 45, 53175 Bonn, Germany
Tel.: +49 228 302 145, Fax: +49 228 302 167
Special Interest Group SIDAR
http://www.gi-ev.de/allgemeines/index-english.html


IN CO-OPERATION WITH
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IEEE Computer Society
SPOT Consulting
Fraunhofer Institut fuer Arbeitswirtschaft und Organisation IAO
Universitaet Stuttgart, RUS-CERT


SPONSORSHIP
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We invite interested organizations to serve as sponsors for
IMF 2009; please contact the Sponsor Chair, Detlef Guenther,
for information regarding corporate sponsorship 
mailto: sponsor-chair-2009 @ imf-conference.org

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Ollie
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Oliver Goebel                        mailto:Goebel@CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE
Stabsstelle DV-Sicherheit (RUS-CERT) Tel:+49 711 685 1 CERT
Universitaet Stuttgart               Tel:+49 711 685 8-3678 / Fax:-3688
Breitscheidstr. 2, 70174 Stuttgart   http://CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE/