Welcome to ESP-DGC 2015

Cloud computing can be thought of as being in its infancy, since it is possible to find widely varying opinions for how it will shape up in the following decade. In theory, data acquired from distributed sensors, combined with the flexibility of cloud computing using distributed computational and storage sources should allow an exciting new set of applications.

Unfortunately, this naive view is quickly interrupted, since the very flexibility that opens the door to a set of new applications also extends to parties with malicious intent. Therefore, the fight for securing the data privacy should be a part of the applications. Securing the data, or the code can be achieved by software, as well as dedicated hardware.

Emerging technologies in Security and Privacy of Distributed, Grid and Cloud Computing systems (ESP-DGC) workshop welcomes novel papers that propose to improve the information privacy at the acquisition point, during storage, during communication, or during computation. Potential information privacy advances can be the result of novel algorithmic approaches, or straightforward novel implementation of existing techniques, as well as novel hardware technologies.

These categories which ESP-DGC welcomes are listed below, but not limited to:


CLOUD SECURITY	COMMUNICATIONS
Secure Cloud Streaming	Distributed secure communication algorithms
Program Obfuscation	Protocol-level improvements for security
Privacy Preserving Data Mining	Privacy-preserving networking methodologies
Cloud security architecture and protocols	Distributed secure mobile/sensory communication
Verifiable Outsourcing
Secure Multi-party communication
Scalable security in Clouds	HARDWARE
Side Channel Attacks	Novel secure FPGA, GPU, ASIC, APU-based designs
Intrusion Detection	Privacy-preserving distributed data acquisition
Privacy Preserving Cloud Computing	Datacenter hardware improvements for better security
Fully homomorphic Encryption & applications
Storage Privacy
Privacy-sensitive cloud applications	SURVEYS
Workload profiling for secure cloud applications	Any surveys are welcome on one of these topics
Private Information Retrieval
Mobile-Cloud Computing security
Distributed and secure "as a Service" alternatives