StorageSS 2005

International Workshop on
Storage Security and Survivability
(StorageSS)
"The Paradigm Shift to Info-Centric Protection"

There has been an evolution of protection solutions for networked computer systems mirrored in both the security and survivability research communities: (1) from physical protection solutions targeting people, (2) to system protection solutions targeting networked-systems, (3) and now the new emerging paradigm of information-centric solutions targeting the data itself. This workshop focuses on stimulating thought on info-centric solutions in order to reshape computer storage protection strategies. Clearly storage security and survivability is a complex, multi-dimensional problem with dynamics over time so a large variety of approaches may be appropriate including prevention, monitoring, measurements, mitigation, and recovery.

We bring the Storage-SS Workshop to the ACM CCS 2005 Conference to foster a greater exchange between computer protection researchers/professionals and computer storage researchers/professionals. In this vein, we seek submissions from both research and industry presenting novel ideas on all theoretical and practical aspects of protecting storage systems. In order to promote the highest intellectual exchange possible, we seek submissions in three different paper categories, specifically: Long Paper (10 pages with up to 4 extra pages extra purchasable at $150/page}, Short Paper (4 pages with up to 4 extra pages extra purchasable at $150/page), and Position Paper (2-5 pages). We encourage those with novel ideas that may not be fully developed to consider the short paper category. Industry experience/case-study papers may fall into either regular or short paper category depending on page length. All accepted papers (both regular and short papers) will be presented at the workshop and published in ACM proceedings. A list of potential topics includes but is not limited to the following:

• storage protection tradeoffs
• storage protection deployment (including case studies)
• smart storage for security/survivability
• analysis of covert storage channels
• storage leak analysis
• mobile storage protection
• novel backup protection techniques
• storage versioning protection techniques
• storage encryption techniques (both key mgmt and crypto algorithms)
• tamper-evident storage protection techniques
• immutable storage protection techniques
• storage system threat models
• storage intrusion detection systems
• storage area network (SAN) security/survivability
• security/survivability for storage over a distance
• Internet storage service providers
• storage security/survivability in an HPC environment
• file system protection
• managing storage systems (including case studies)
• usability and storage security administration
• storage protection standards (including case studies)
• privacy-preserving storage
• database protection
• object-based storage techniques

• Is protecting storage a unique problem?
• Is backup a solved problem?
• Is cryptography enough to protect storage?
• What is the one major challenge for storage protection?
• Can storage protection be evaluated?

Important Dates:

Author Instructions:

• All papers must be original work authorized to be released.
• No submission of material that has been previously published.
• No multiple submission -- authors are not allowed to submit the same (or substantially similar) material to this StorageSS-2005 Workshop and anything else including the main track of ACM CCS itself or any of the other ACM CCS workshops.
• First page must include title, all authors, contact information for exactly one corresponding author, abstract, and key words
• Three Paper Categories: (please explicitly specify category in the title, for example "Short Paper: Fixing Storage Security")
  1. Long Paper: 10 pages (with up to 4 extra pages extra purchasable at $150/page},
  2. Short Paper: 4 pages (with up to 4 extra pages extra purchasable at $150/page},
  3. Position Paper: 2-5 pages
• Submission Format (ACM Press guidelines including detailed instructions, examples, and templates)
• Submission Instructions
• all papers accepted to this workshop will be published in a separate ACM Press Paper Proceedings (available the day of the workshop) as well as published in the ACM Digital Library.

Program Chair:

• Bill Yurcik (NCSA, USA) <byurcik AT ncsa DOT uiuc DOT edu>

Program Co-Chairs:

• Larry Brumbaugh (NCSA, USA) <ljbrumb AT ncsa DOT uiuc DOT edu>
• Yuanyuan Zhou (University of Illinois, USA) <yyzhou AT cs DOT uiuc DOT edu>

Program Committee: (in alphabetical order)

• Cristina Abad (Escuela Superior Politenica del Litoral, Ecuador)
• Ahmed Amer (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
• Lincoln Dale (Cisco Systems, Australia)
• Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau (University of Wisconsin, USA)
• Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau (University of Wisconsin, USA)
• Giuseppe Ateniese (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
• Kevin Fu (MIT & UMass-Amherst, USA)
• Greg Ganger (CMU, USA)
• Howard Gobioff (Google, USA & Japan)
• Ragib Hasan (NCSA, USA)
• Yongdae Kim (University of Minnesota, USA)
• Sandeep Kulkarni (Michigan State University, USA)
• Adam Lee (NCSA, USA)
• Darrell Long (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA)
• Ethan Miller (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA)
• Klara Nahrstedt (University of Illinois, USA)
• David Nagle (Panasas, USA)
• Peter Reiher (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
• Erik Riedel (Seagate Technology Inc., USA)
• Pierangela Samarati (Universita` di Milano, Italy)
• Adam Slagell (NCSA, USA)
• Paul Stanton (US Military Academy at West Point, USA)
• Joe Tucek (NCSA, USA)
• Jun Wang (NCSA, USA)
• John Wilkes (HP, USA)
• Marianne Winslett (University of Illinois, USA)
• Lihao Xu (Wayne State University, USA)
• Honesty Young (IBM Almaden, USA)
• Erez Zadok (Stony Brook University, USA)