IBWAS'10 Call for Papers

2nd. OWASP Ibero-American Web-Applications Security conference 2010 (IBWAS’10) ISCTE – Lisbon University Institute 25th – 26th November 2010 Lisboa, Portugal http://www.ibwas.com

Call for Papers

Introduction

There is a change in the information systems development paradigm. The emergence of Web 2.0 technologies led to the extensive deployment and use of web-based applications and web services as a way to developed new and flexible information systems. Such systems are easy to develop, deploy and maintain and demonstrate impressive features for users, resulting in their current wide use.

As a result of this paradigm shift, the security requirements have also changed. These web-based information systems have different security requirements, when compared to traditional systems. Important security issues have been found and privacy concerns have also been raised recently. In addition, the emerging Cloud Computing paradigm promises even greater flexibility; however corresponding security and privacy issues still need to be examined. The security environment should involve not only the surrounding environment but also the application core.

This conference aims to bring together application security experts, researchers, educators and practitioners from the industry, academia and international communities such as OWASP, in order to discuss open problems and new solutions in application security. In the context of this track academic researchers will be able to combine interesting results with the experience of practitioners and software engineers.

Conference Topics

Suggested topics for papers submission include (but are not limited to):

• Secure application development
• Security of service oriented architectures
• Security of development frameworks
• Threat modelling of web applications
• Cloud computing security
• Web applications vulnerabilities and analysis (code review, pen-test, static analysis etc.)
• Metrics for application security
• Countermeasures for web application vulnerabilities
• Secure coding techniques
• Platform or language security features that help secure web applications
• Secure database usage in web applications • Access control in web applications
• Web services security
• Browser security
• Privacy in web applications
• Standards, certifications and security evaluation criteria for web applications • Application security awareness and education
• Security for the mobile web
• Attacks and Vulnerability Exploitation