secIoT 2010

1st Workshop on the Security of the Internet of Things, SecIoT 2010 being held on November 29th in conjunction with the Internet of Things 2010 conference in Tokyo, Japan

Most of the Internet of Things (IoT) definitions revolve around the same central concept: a world-wide network of interconnected objects. The services that could be provided by this new paradigm are so vast, ranging from integral e-health management to augmented reality, that its importance in the future of our society has been acknowledged by companies and governments all over the world. However, achieving a secure and usable Internet of Things (IoT) is a daunting task, as it is necessary to protect the interactions between humans, machines, and possibly millions of heterogeneous constrained devices over the Internet.

The main purpose of 1st Workshop on the Security of the Internet of Things, SecIoT’10, is precisely to address the most important security research issues that must be solved in order to protect the IoT. Our workshop is completely focused only on all the different security challenges that are related to the Internet of Things: From the protection and interoperability of the different actors and building blocks to the management of the information produced by the interactions between all entities. In particular, the topics of our workshop include the following:

• New security problems in the context of the IoT.
• Privacy risks and data management problems.
• Identifying, authenticating, and authorizing entities.
• Development of trust frameworks for secure collaboration.
• New cryptographic primitives for constrained "things".
• Connecting heterogeneous ecosystems and technologies.
• Legal Challenges and Governance Issues.
• Resilience to external and internal attacks.
• Context-Aware Security.
• Providing protection to an IP-connected IoT.
• Web services security and other application-layer issues.

Moreover, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version for possible publication in the “Protecting the Internet of Things” special issue of Wiley's Security and Communication Networks Journal. This international journal publishes original research papers on security and cryptographic mechanisms applied to all types of information and communication networks, and it is indexed in almost all important technical journal index systems, such as ISI, SCI, EI, SCOPUS, etc.

Important dates are the following:

• Paper Submission due: 10 September 2010
• Acceptance notification: 5 October 2010
• Final papers due: 12 October 2010