Note: The abstracts deadline has been extended.   (updated 12/11/08)

Organized by BU Center for Reliable Information Systems and Cyber Security (RISCS)

Date: December 20th 2008 
Time: 10 AM to 4 PM 
Location: Boston University Charles River Campus, room: TBD 

Schedule   (updated 12/19/08)

10:00 am	Opening Remarks
10:05 am-12:30 pm	Session 1 10:05 am Cogency in Network Forensic Analysis (Brandon Cavanaugh) 10:25 am Industry Standards Compliance: Benefit driven not Compliant driven (Allan Lam) 10:45 am Empirical Evaluation of the Performance Characteristics of Factoring Algorithms (Patrick Rourke and Marcos Lara Reinhold) 11:05 am Portable Endpoint Security (Lakshmanan Velayutham) 11:25 am Project eYe: A Tool for SQL Injection (Richard O’Connel)
12:00-12:30 pm	Lunch
12:30-1:00 pm	Keynote: The Importance of Keeping Practice Close to Theory (John Day)
1:00-3:00 pm	Session 2 1:00 pm DB Security Architecture Corporate Entitlements System For Large Multinational Bank (DeZan) 1:20 pm Web to Database Application Risk Assessment (Oscar Guzman) 1:40 pm Preventive Measure for SQL Injection Attacks (George Ultrino) 2:00 pm Web Security Urban Legends (John Carmichael) 2:20 pm Analysis and Future of (COPPA) Children's Online Privacy Protection Act
3:00 pm	Concluding remarks

 

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS 
The BU Center for Reliable Information Systems and Cyber Security (RISCS) invites graduate and undergraduate students from BU and other universities for The Fourth Boston University Student Conference on Information Assurance and Cyber Security.

Interested students are encouraged to submit research papers, either completed or working papers related to reliable information systems and security. The papers could be part of their course work, here at BU, or independent work completed by the presenter. The abstract will be reviewed to make sure that the work is original, and has not been published earlier at any previous student conference. We also encourage original case studies, or industry-track papers that are related to the field of information security. Please see below for topics of interest. 
 
SUBMISSION 
Please email your abstract (max 1 page), containing the paper title, author name(s), and affiliation to Prof Dhananjay Kulkarni at kulkarni@bu.edu before Dec 5th 2008.

Some papers presented during the conference will be invited for publication. Note: You are not required to submit a paper, only an abstract is sufficient by Dec 5th. The decision to invite the paper for publication will be made on the conference day.

IMPORTANT DATES 
December 5: Abstracts Due 
December 13: Schedule Notification 
December 20: Conference 

REGISTRATION 
Free! This is a free conference organized by BU Center for Reliable Information Systems and Cyber Security. If you are not presenting, we encourage you attend this event and enjoy a day at Boston University campus. Students only need to RSVP to mattslow@bu.edu by Dec 5th 2008

Lunch and refreshments will be provided to all attendees at the conference.

AWARDS 
Best paper award will be given to the student with the best paper/presentation.

SPONSORING POSSIBILITIES 
If you are working at a company or organization that is willing to sponsor part of the event, please call or email BU MET Computer Science. Sponsoring may include giving a demo of your product, display of logo on the conference webpage, or handouts that will be given to all participants.

NETWORKING POSSIBILITIES 
If you are an online or distance education student, this conference will provide you a unique opportunity to network with the BU faculty and students. Students traveling to Boston will be able to enjoy the beautiful BU campus, and other tourist locations near by. We would be more than happy to provide you with recommendations and suggestions on what you can explore during that weekend.

TOPICS OF INTEREST* 
- Identity Theft 
- Privacy Leakage  
- Data and Information Privacy 
- Privacy Protection 
- Biometrics 
- Cryptography 
- Internet Fraud  
- Pay-per-click Fraud Detection 
- Security in IT Outsourcing 
- Digital Forensics 
- Secure E-commerce 
- Attacks and Counter measures in IT 
- Consumer Rights Protection 
- Security Solutions 
- Wireless Security 
- Security Awareness 
- Intrusion Detection 
- Software Security 
- Security in Electronic Voting Systems 
- Opensource Security Solutions 
- Security Issues in Social Networking (Facebook, MySpace, etc) 
- Future Directions in IT Security 
- Future Directions in Reliable Systems 
- Security Challenges due to Globalization 
- Challenges in Designing Security Policies 
- Industry-related Survey and Benchmarks 
- Risk Management

*this is only a tentative list of topics, the authors are welcome to present papers on other topics related to the area of information and cyber security. Interested BU students may submit a course term paper (on approval of Instructor). 

Conference website: http://csmet.bu.edu/Events/iacs2008.html 

For more information, please contact BU MET Computer Science Department

Phone: 617-353-2566

Email csinfo@bu.edu.