[Tccc] CfP: Network forensics and challenges f...

Krzysztof Szczypiorski kszattele.pw.edu.pl
Wed Aug 22 14:17:10 EDT 2012



 Network forensics and challenges for cyber-security
SI in: Journal Annals of Telecommunications, Springer  

http://www.annales-des-telecommunications.com/archive/107/CfP_cyber_security.pdf

Societies in todays world are becoming more and more dependent on open 
networks such as the Internet where commercial activities, business 
transactions and government services are realized. This has led to the 
fast development of new cyber threats and information security issues 
which are utilized by cyber criminals. Mistrust for telecommunications 
and computer network technologies have tremendous socio-economic impacts 
on global enterprises as well as individuals.

Moreover, the occurrence of international frauds often requires the 
investigation of facts that cross international borders. They are also 
often subject to different jurisdictions and legal systems. The 
increased complexity of the communication and networking infrastructure 
is making investigation of the crimes difficult. Clues of illegal 
digital activities are often buried in large volumes of data that are 
hard to inspect in order to detect crimes and collect evidence.
This poses new challenges for law enforcement and forces computer 
societies to utilize digital forensics to combat the growing number of 
cybercrimes. Forensic professionals need to be fully prepared in order 
to be able to provide effective evidence. To achieve these goals 
forensic techniques must keep pace with new technologies. That is why 
the field of digital forensics is becoming more and more important for 
law enforcement, information and network security. Network forensics is 
a newly emerged research area, and its importance has attracted a great 
attention among computer professionals, law enforcement, and 
practitioners. It is a multidisciplinary area that includes multiple 
fields i.e.: law, computer science, finance, networking, data mining, 
and criminal justice. However, network forensics still faces diverse 
challenges and issues in terms of the efficiency of digital evidence 
processing and the related forensic procedures.

This special issue presents some of the most relevant ongoing research 
in network forensics and cyber-security fields. Topics include, but are 
not limited to the following:
- Network forensics tools, applications, case studies and best practices;
- Formal standards, procedures or methods in network forensics;
- Networking incidents response, investigation and evidence handling;
- Integrity of digital evidence and live investigations;
- Identification, authentication and collection of digital evidence;
- Cyber crimes design, detection & investigation;
- Anti-forensics techniques and methods;
- Social networking forensics;
- Watermarking and intellectual property theft;
- Steganography/steganalysis and covert/subliminal channels in network 
forensics.

Guest Editors
- Wojciech Mazurczyk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
- Krzysztof Szczypiorski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
- Yali Liu, AT&T Labs, USA
- Hui Tian, National Huaqiao University, China

Papers must be written in English and describe original research not 
published or currently under review by other journals or conferences. 
The manuscripts are expected to be between 5,000 and 8,500 words (30,000 
to 50,000 characters including spaces). All relevant papers submitted 
will go through an external review process. Submissions should be sent 
according to the instructions available at:
http://www.annals-of-telecommunications.com/p_en_publish_6.html

Proposed schedule
  Manuscript submission: January 15th, 2013
  Expected publication: 1st semester 2014
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