First Open EIT ICT Labs Workshop on Smart Grid Security<br><div class="gmail_quote">
SmartGridSec12<br>
Berlin, December 3rd, 2012<br>
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Call for Contributions (Talks and Poster Presentations)<br>
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>> Forward to colleagues who may be interested. <<<br>
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General Information<br>
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The First Open EIT ICT Labs Workshop on Smart Grid<br>
Security, an activity of the action line smart energy<br>
systems of the EIT ICT Labs, will be held at the EIT ICT<br>
Co-Location Centre Node Berlin, alongside the 2012 Berlin<br>
IEEE Innovative Smart Grid Conference, on December 3rd,<br>
2012. The Co-location Centre (CLC) is inside the campus of<br>
TU Berlin, in the heart of the city's west - a hotspot<br>
where education, research and industry, see<br>
<a href="http://eit.ictlabs.eu/ictlabs/" target="_blank">http://eit.ictlabs.eu/ictlabs/</a><br>
nodes-co-location-centres/berlin/. SmartGridSec12 is also<br>
co-sponsored by the Network of Excellence on Engineering<br>
Secure Future Internet SW, NESSoS, <a href="http://www.nessos-project.eu/" target="_blank">www.nessos-project.eu/</a><br>
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Context and Motivation<br>
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The need for a reliable, efficient, and sustainable energy<br>
supply is steadily increasing. The Smart Grid is proposed<br>
as an innovative, flexible, adaptable system which<br>
revolutionizes the current interconnection architecture and<br>
creates new services and offering new management and<br>
business opportunities for many stakeholders. Real-time<br>
communication between the consumer and the utility will<br>
allow the consumer to optimize local energy production,<br>
storage and usage; power will flow in different directions,<br>
depending on where generation takes place; buildings will<br>
actively participate of in the grid as consumers,<br>
producers, and energy storage facilities; electro-cars can<br>
be charged during low-demand periods and used as short-term<br>
energy storage.<br>
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Components will communicate with each other and will<br>
provide operational and nonoperational information to users<br>
and administrators. This will require the use of global<br>
communication networks, like the Internet, and will open<br>
the door to conventional hacking and to cyber attacks. Not<br>
only will it be necessary to carefully assess the threads<br>
and risks, but also to have a consensus on the definition<br>
and implementation of measures and mechanisms to cope with<br>
them, or to recover from them. The infrastructure,<br>
workflows, processes and systems must be protected against<br>
unauthorized modification, required information should be<br>
accessible in the right place at the right time, the<br>
sensitive personally identifiable information (PII) related<br>
to the consumption of energy, the location of the electric<br>
car, but also confidential business information etc must<br>
remain secure from unauthorized access.<br>
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There is a clear need in Europe to integrate the fragmented<br>
research and development efforts in securing the Smart<br>
Grid. This workshop will be a venue to share and<br>
consolidate results, plan joint work, and create networks<br>
to accomplish these ambitioned goals.<br>
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Program Committee welcomes proposals for contributions on<br>
any topics related to:<br>
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- Attackers, Threats, Risk Analysis<br>
- Security of Smart Grid protocols<br>
- IDS / IPS / SIEM for Smart Grids / SCADA systems<br>
- Security related Smart Grid test beds and simulators<br>
- Security for long term deployment<br>
- Securing the Smart Grids from the business and market<br>
perspective: Products, Stakeholders, Models<br>
- Cross organizational security aspects<br>
- Real-time monitoring and recovery<br>
- Privacy issues<br>
- Standardization<br>
- Certification, Regulatory issues<br>
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Program Chairs:<br>
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Joël Chinnow (DAI)<br>
Jorge Cuellar (Siemens)<br>
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Program Committee:<br>
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James Weimer (KTH)<br>
Matthias Hollick (TU Darmstadt)<br>
Steffen Fries (Siemens)<br>
Karsten Bsufka (DAI)<br>
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Submissions<br>
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Full paper submissions, extended abstracts and short papers<br>
are welcome. Full papers are limited to 5-10 pages, while<br>
extended abstracts and short papers should be 2-5 pages<br>
long. The authors of extended abstracts should submit a<br>
full version to be published in the postproceedings. Short<br>
papers can be presented as poster presentations. All papers<br>
will be reviewed by the program committee, and a balanced<br>
program will be selected based on relevance and technical<br>
soundness. Short paper contributions may be selected as<br>
"Poster Presentations". Follow the instructions at the<br>
submission web page:<br>
<a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=smartgridsec12" target="_blank">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=smartgridsec12</a><br>
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Publication<br>
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The workshop proceedings will be published as a EIT ICT<br>
Labs online publication, as CEUR online publication, ISSN<br>
1613-0073, <a href="http://ceur-ws.org/" target="_blank">http://ceur-ws.org/</a>. A publication as LNCS<br>
Volume in Springer <a href="http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs" target="_blank">http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs</a> is<br>
also envisaged. Please use LNCS template for submissions:<br>
<a href="http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs" target="_blank">www.springer.com/computer/lncs</a> The submission web site is:<br>
<a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=smartgridsec12" target="_blank">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=smartgridsec12</a><br>
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Important Dates (NEW):<br>
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Submission of full paper (5-10 pages),<br>
extended abstract (2-5 pages) or short paper (2-5 pages) ..31 October<br>
Notification to authors:...................................10 November<br>
Final version for post-proceedings: ....................... 3 December<br>
Workshop: ................................................. 3 December<br>
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