Dear all, please find enclosed the call for participation for IMF 2008. See the program at: http://www.imf-conference.org//imf2008/program.html The conference will be held from Tuesday (Sept. 23) through Wednesday (Sept. 24). On Thursday (Sept. 25) selected topics will be addressed in greater detail in several workshops. Please excuse possible cross postings. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PARTICIPATION IMF 2008 4th International Conference on IT Incident Management & IT Forensics Mannheim, Germany September 23 - 25, 2008 http://www.imf-conference.org/ mailto:2008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. Although security usually gets involved in the design process of IT systems nowadays, the process of maintaining security in the operation of IT infrastructures, in most cases, still lacks the appropriate attention. The capability to manage and respond to IT security incidents and their forensic analysis are not well established. The quickly rising number of security incidents worldwide makes the implementation of incident management capabilities essential. In order to advance the fields of IT Security Incident Management and IT Forensics the special interest-group "Security Intrusion Detection and Response" (SIDAR) of the German Informatics Society (GI) organizes an annual conference, providing a platform for experts from throughout the world, to discuss the state of the art in the areas of IT Security Incident Management and IT Forensics (IMF). IMF promotes collaboration and exchange of ideas between industry, academia, law-enforcement and other government bodies. The IMF conference will be held for the fourth time in 2008. The concept matured from a pure academic event to an academic track section complemented by practical workshops. In addition, IMF has become an important community event. This year IMF starts to travel. The Mannheim University of Cooperative Education (Berufsakademie Mannheim) will host the fourth IMF. It is planned to continue to find hosts for IMF at different locations in order to widen the community and to learn from different perspectives. Conference Program ------------------ http://www.imf-conference.org/imf2008/program.html Registration ------------ Information on how to register for the conference can be found at: http://www.imf-conference.org/imf2008/registration.html Conference Chair ---------------- Dirk Schadt SPOT Consulting mailto:dirk.schadt@xxxxxxxx Program Chair ------------- Oliver Goebel RUS-CERT Universitaet Stuttgart mailto:goebel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Program Committee ----------------- Susan Brenner University of Dayton, USA Klaus Brunnstein University of Hamburg, Germany Jack Cole US Army Research Laboratory, USA Andrew Cormack JANET, UK Ralf Doerrie Germany Sandra Frings Fraunhofer IAO, Germany Oliver Goebel RUS-CERT, Germany Detlef Guenther ISSO, Volkswagen AG, Germany Vijay K. Gurbanyi Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent, USA Bernhard Haemmerli ACRIS GmbH, Switzerland Alexander Herrigel Secude Int. AG, Switzerland Thorsten Lieb Avocado Rechtsanwaelte, Germany Klaus Peter Kossakowski DFN-CERT, Germany Jim Lyle NIST, USA Robert A. Martin MITRE Corporation, USA Ralf Moll LKA Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany Jens Nedon ConSecur GmbH, Germany Henning Pagnia Berufsakademie Mannheim, Germany Hartmut Pohl FH Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, Germany Jason Rafail CERT/CC, USA Dirk Schadt SPOT Consulting, Germany Mark Schiller Stratton Security Ltd, UK Andreas Schuster Germany Marco Thorbruegge ENISA, EU Steven Wood Alste.Technologies GmbH, Germany Stephen Wolthusen Royal Holloway, University of London, UK/ Gjovik University College, Norway Local Organisation ------------------ H.J. Mueller Berufsakademie Mannheim mailto:mueller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Location -------- Berufsakademie Mannheim / Mannheim University of Cooperative Education Coblitzweg 1-7 68163 Mannheim Germany see also: http://www.imf-conference.org/imf2008/conference_location.html Sponsor Chair ------------- Dirk Schadt SPOT Consulting mailto:dirk.schadt@xxxxxxxx Sponsorship Opportunities ------------------------- We solicit interested organizations to serve as sponsors for IMF 2008. Please contact the Sponsor Chair for information regarding corporate sponsorship. Presented by / Under the Auspices of --------------------------------- Special Interest Group SIDAR of the German Informatics Society (GI e.V.) Wissenschaftszentrum Ahrstr. 45 53175 Bonn Germany In Co-operation with -------------------- - The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Task Force on Information Assurance (TFIA) - SPOT Consulting - Fraunhofer Institut fuer Arbeitswirtschaft und Organisation IAO - Universitaet Stuttgart, RUS CERT - Consecur GmbH - ISC^2 - The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) Sponsored by: ------------- Alste Technologies GmbH -- Oliver Goebel mailto:Goebel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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/ ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Oliver Goebel mailto:Goebel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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/ ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Oliver Goebel mailto:Goebel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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/
