CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

Extended Deadline: 15 July 2010

An ITU-T workshop on “Addressing security challenges on a global scale” will take place at ITU Headquarters, in Geneva, Switzerland, from 6 (afternoon) to 7 December 2010, prior to the meeting of Study Group 17 scheduled to take place in Geneva from 8 to 17 December 2010.

The workshop will address the main challenges of ICT security and how ITU and others deal with these challenges.

It will be an opportunity for sharing valuable information and promoting increased cooperation between organizations engaged in security standardization. Central to the focus of the event are the four keywords: Sharing, Collaboration, Coordination and Promotion.

This workshop will also provide a good opportunity to overview new areas of security studies including smart grid and cloud computing.

Authors are encouraged to submit abstracts with reference to the following security topics provided as guidelines:

• Keynote speeches
  • Emerging applications of PKI
  • Collaboration for ICT security standardization
  • Developing countries
  • Policy/regulatory aspects
• Telecom and cloud security
  • Threat or opportunity
  • The cloud in the telecom space
  • Identity in the cloud
  • Meeting regulatory obligations
• Telebiometrics and applications (e-health, …)
  • Telebiometrics: Technology, applications, benefits, and challenges
  • Telebiometrics standardization
  • Future work on telebiometrics
• Cybersecurity information exchange (CYBEX)
  • Assurance, making cybersecurity measurable
  • Identity management (IdM)
  • CIRTs, sharing of information
  • Applications of CYBEX
  • CYBEX for telecoms
  • Awareness
• Standardization landscape
  • Smart grid security (NIST)
  • IPv6 (IETF) / Security for Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP)
  • ISO/IEC 27000-series of standards (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27)
  • Identity in the cloud, smart grid or privacy (ETSI)
  • Identity in the cloud (OASIS)
  • Cloud Security Alliance (CSA)
  • ITU-T Focus Groups (FG Cloud, FG Smart, FG FN)
  • Critical Network Infrastructure (CNI)
  • Others

Authors wishing to submit a proposal for a presentation should submit a one-page abstract, including the title of the presentation, the author’s full name, affiliation, a short biography, address, telephone and e-mail, to tsbworkshops[at]itu.int by 15 July 2010.

Authors will be notified of the acceptance of their papers by 15 August 2010.

Sponsorship packages are available. We look for sponsors to organize various activities.

For other details please see the event web site here or contact tsbworkshops[at]itu.int.

For other details and updates on the event’s rogramme, including information to participants, please refer to the web site of the event.