[fg-arc] (CFP) SmartGridSec '14

[Pieter Philippaerts]

SmartGridSec14

Second Open EIT ICT Labs Workshop on Smart Grid Security

Munich, Feb 26th, 2014

 

Call for Contributions (Papers, Talks, and Posters)

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The Second Open NESSoS / EIT ICT Labs Workshop on Smart Grid Security will
take place in the Technical University of Munich, in the centre of the city,
on the 26th of Feb, 2014 in the context of the International Symposium on
Engineering Secure Software and Systems (ESSoS'14).  The Workshop is
sponsored jointly by the Network of Excellence on Engineering Secure Future
Internet SW,  www.nessos-project.eu/ (NESSoS) and the action line smart
energy systems of the EIT ICT Labs.

 

 

Context and Motivation

 

The need for a reliable, efficient, and sustainable energy supply is
steadily increasing. The Smart Grid is proposed as an innovative, flexible,
adaptable system which revolutionizes the current interconnection
architecture and creates new services and offering new management and
business opportunities for many stakeholders. Real-time communication
between the consumer and the utility will allow the consumer to optimize
local energy production, storage and usage; power will flow in different
directions, depending on where generation takes place; buildings will
actively participate of in the grid as consumers, producers, and energy
storage facilities; electro-cars can be charged during low-demand periods
and used as short-term energy storage. 

Components will communicate with each other and will provide operational and
non-operational information to users and administrators. This will require
the use of global communication networks, like the Internet, and will open
the door to conventional hacking and to cyber attacks. Not only will it be
necessary to carefully assess the threads and risks, but also to have a
consensus on the definition and implementation of measures and mechanisms to
cope with them, or to recover from them. The infrastructure, workflows,
processes and systems must be protected against unauthorized modification,
required information should be accessible in the right place at the right
time, the sensitive personally identifiable information (PII) related to the
consumption of energy, the location of the electric car, but also
confidential business information etc must remain secure from unauthorized
access. 

There is a clear need in Europe to integrate the fragmented research and
development efforts in securing the Smart Grid. This workshop will be a
venue to share and consolidate results, plan joint work, and create networks
to accomplish these ambitioned goals.

 

The organizers welcome proposals for contributions on any topics related to:

*         Attackers, Threats, Risk Analysis

*         Security of Smart Grid protocols

*         IDS / IPS / SIEM for Smart Grids / SCADA systems

*         Security related Smart Grid test beds and simulators

*         Security for long term deployment

*         Securing the Smart Grids from the business and market perspective:
Products, Stakeholders, Models

*         Cross organizational security aspects

*         Real-time monitoring and recovery

*         Privacy issues

*         Standardization

*         Certification, Regulatory issues

 

Submissions

Full paper submissions, extended abstracts and short papers are welcome.
Full papers should be 10-12 pages, while extended abstracts and short papers
should be 2-5 pages. Invited paper may be up to 25 pages.  The authors of
extended abstracts should submit a full version to be published in the
post-proceedings. Short papers can be presented as poster presentations.
All papers will be reviewed by the program committee, and a balanced program
will be selected based on relevance and technical soundness.  Short paper
contributions may be selected as "Poster Presentations". Follow the
instructions at the submission web page:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=smartgridsec14

Publication

After the success of the previous SmartGrid Security Workshop (see LNCS 7823
and http://www.springeronline.com/978-3-642-38029-7), we are planning again
to publish the papers in LNCS (//www.springer.com/computer/lncs), as
post-proceedings.

Important Dates:

Submission 
Full paper (10-12 pages), abstract (2-5 pages) or short paper (2-5 pages)
15 Dec

Notification to authors:
10 Jan

Workshop:
26 Feb

Final version for post-proceedings    31 Mar


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