GENERAL INFO

17th EICAR Annual Conference

"IT Security is facing a paradigm shift – New threats and more subtle methods of attack require different approaches and solutions"

3 May to 6 May 2008

ESIEA (Ecole Supérieure d'Informatique Electronique Automatique)
in Laval, France

The 17th Annual EICAR Conference to be held from 3 May to 6 May 2008 in Laval, France brings together experts from industry, government, military, law enforcement, academia, research and end-users to examine and discuss new research and development in anti-virus, malware, e-security, e-forensics and Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Management.

Laval, France
The main theme EICAR 2008 conference will be devoted to Malware and Virtualization. The new malware threats which have recently emerged with virtualization (e.g. SubVirt and BluePill malware) represent a huge and complex challenge to current detection capabilities. With virtualization, malware detection is bound to undergo a major revolution. The aim of EICAR 2008 conference is to gather computer virology experts (researchers, AV industry people...) to think about the best technical or non-technical solution in order to fight against virtualization-based malware.


This call for papers invites the submission of full papers and abstracts on one or more topics that may include but are not restricted to:
  • Virtualisation and its Risks
  • Malware and Virtualisation
  • Malicious code and its side effects
  • Viruses and worms
  • Vulnerabilities and Software Bugs
  • Spam and Phishing
  • Spyware
  • Crime and e-Forensics
  • Information Assurance
  • Ethical and Moral Aspects of Malware Writing
  • Identity Management
  • ICT Security and Policy Management
  • Intrusion Detection and Prevention
  • Human aspects of INFOSEC
  • Awareness and Education
  • Cryptography and Steganography
  • Legal, Privacy and Social Issues of ICT Security
  • IT Governance and Compliance
  • Cyber Terrorism





Conference Program Committee
The following list of distinguished researchers and/or practitioners (listed alphabetically) have confirmed their membership of the conference program committee to date:

Assist. Professor John Aycock Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Canada
David Bénichou Department of Justice, France
Vlasti Broucek (Program Co-chair) School of Information Systems, University of Tasmania, Australia
Dr Hervé Debar France Télécom Research and Development, France
Professor Eric Filiol (Program Chair) Laboratoire de Virology et de cryptologie, Ecole Supérieure et d’Application des Transmissions, Rennes, France
Professor Richard Ford Florida Institute of Technology, USA
Sandra Frings Institute Arbeitswirtschaft und Organisation, Stuttgart, Germany
Professor Steven Furnell University of Plymouth, UK
Dr Urs E Gattiker CyTRAP Labs, Switzerland
Dr Sarah Gordon Symantec, USA
Assoc. Professor William (Bill) Hafner Nova Southeastern University, USA
Assist. Professor Marko Helenius University of Tampere, Finland
Dr Andy Jones BT, UK
Cédric Lauradoux Princeton University, USA
Dr Sylvia Kierkegaard President of International Association of IT lawyers and Editor-in-Chief, JICLT, IJPL, Denmark
Professor Yves Poullet Centre de Recherches Informatique et Droit (CRID), Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, Namur, Belgium
Professor Gerald Quirchmayr University of Vienna, Austria University of South Australia, Australia
Sebastian Rohr Germany
Assoc. Professor Paul School of Information Systems, University of Tasmania, Australia
Christine Whalley, CISSP Pfizer Inc., USA
Professor James Wolfe (EICAR Technical Director) University of Central Florida, USA