The International Workshop on Designing and Measuring CyberSecurity in Software Architecture(DeMeSSA 2019)

September 09 ~ 10, 2019, Paris, France

Call for Papers

This International Workshop on Designing and Measuring CyberSecurity in Software Architecture (DeMeSSA 2019) at ECSA 2019, will provide researchers and practitioners with a forum to exchange ideas and experiences, analyze research and development issues, discuss promising solutions, and propose inspiring visions for the future in complementary fields of Cybersecurity from the perspective of the Software Architecture: Designing CyberSecurity in Software Architecture and Measuring CyberSecurity in Software Architecture Design.

With the growing complexity of software and in particular of software-reliant systems and systems-of-systems, the focus of cybersecurity on network and code has been increasingly shifted to design and more recently to “cybersecurity by design” or “design for cybersecurity”, where the software architecture is the keystone for enforcing cybersecurity. Early evidence of cyber risks, attacks and vulnerabilities enables efficient and effective cybersecurity solutions. Security measurement of software architectures is needed to produce sufficient evidence of cybersecurity level in the design phase. Moreover, software architectures have to support runtime security measurement to obtain up-to-date cybersecurity information. This is essential for self-protecting systems and self-adaptive cybersecurity solutions.

DeMeSSA 2019 fosters (but is not limited to) submissions in the following topics:

Topics of Interest :

• Metrics and measurement approaches
  
• Security, trust and privacy metrics
  
• Measurement systems and associated data gathering
  
• Measurability-increasing mechanisms for software architectures
  
• Security trade-off analysis
  
• Assurance and re-assurance methods
  
• Runtime security measurements
  
• Evolutionary techniques
  
• Metrics applications
  
• Adaptive and cognitive security
  
• Artificial Intelligence security
  
• Cloud security solutions
  
• Internet of Things security
  
• Situational awareness and threat intelligence
  
• Architecture-based self-protecting systems
  
• 5G and Software Defined Networks
  
• Forensics and data analytics
  
• Visualization approaches for security measurements
  
• Empirical case studies and experimental results from security measurements
  
• Designing Cybersecurity in Software Architecture*
  
• Security architecture techniques
  
• Architecture Risk Management
  
• Security-Driven Architecture
  
• Design Patterns Driven Security
  
• Enforcing Security from Architectural Designs to Implementation Artefacts
  
• Model-based techniques for secure software architectures
  
• Secure Architecture Modeling
  
• Attack and Intrusion Modeling
  
• Defense Modeling
  
• Vulnerability Modeling
  
• Adaptive Security Modeling
  
• Model-based Security Frameworks
  
• Relation of Security with other Extra-Functional Properties
  
• Safety & Security by Architectural Design
  
• Dependability & Security by Architectural Design
  
• Reliability & Security by Architectural Design
  
• Interdependencies and Trade-offs at Architectural Design

Paper Submission

Submissions must be uploaded in PDF through the submission website hosted by EasyChair: submission system. All papers submitted to the workshop must be unpublished original work and must not be simultaneously under review or submitted elsewhere. All submissions will be reviewed by at least 3 members of the program committee for originality, quality, and relevance.

All accepted papers will be published in the ECSA 2019 Companion Proceedings by ACM’s International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS). At least one author is required to register for the workshop and to present the paper.

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