----------------------------Original message---------------------------- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "Sean W. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-ASG-Orig-Subj: [ias-opportunities] CFP: security and virtualization special issue Subject: [ias-opportunities] CFP: security and virtualization special issue Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:41:52 -0500 Reply-To: "Sean W. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
IEEE Security & Privacy Special issue on virtualization September/October 2008 Deadline for submissions: 6 February 2008 Visit www.computer.org/portal/pages/security/author.xml to submit a manuscript Guest editors: Samuel T. King (UIUC), Sean W. Smith (Dartmouth) Virtualization has several properties that make it useful for security applications. Traditional virtual machine monitors aspire to enforce strong isolation among multiple operating systems (OSes) running on the same physical hardware, enable software services to be implemented below the OS at a layer usually only accessible by hardware, and provide low-level software with convenient abstractions of the virtual machineís hardware resources. Other approaches aspire to provide multiple virtual but isolated images of the same OS installation. These properties helped foster a new class of virtual- machine- based security services and made virtualization a staple of many enterprise computing environments. A common topic in the early days of computing, virtualization has recently seen a resurgence of commercial and research interest. Consequently, the security implications of virtualization technology are the topic of the Sept./Oct. 2008 special issue of IEEE Security & Privacy magazine. We are looking for feature articles with an in- depth coverage of topics related to virtualization technology and how it applies to security. Among the potential topics are: --Virtualization for intrusion detection --Virtualization for forensic analysis of compromised computer systems --Virtualization for analyzing malicious software --Hardware support for secure virtualization --Security interfaces between VMMs and operating systems --Securing applications using virtualization --Securing attacks using virtualization --Security analysis of virtualization The above list is neither complete nor closed. Authors are encouraged to submit articles that explore other aspects of virtualization and its application to security. Submissions will be subject to the peer- review methodology for refereed papers. Articles should be understandable to a broad audience of people interested in security and privacy. The writing should be down to earth, practical, and original. Authors should not assume that the audience will have specialized experience in a particular subfield. All accepted articles will be edited according to the IEEE Computer Society style guide.
