EuroSec 2024

CALL FOR PAPERS: EuroSec 2024

Important dates

  • Paper submission deadline: February 14, 2024
  • Acceptance notification deadline: March 8, 2024
  • Camera-ready: March 14, 2024
  • Day of Event: April 22, 2024

About EuroSec

The 17th European Workshop on Systems Security (EuroSec) aims to bring together researchers, practitioners, system administrators, system programmers, and others interested in the latest advances in the security of computer systems and networks. The objective of the workshop is to discuss novel, practical, systems-oriented work. The workshop will precede the EuroSys 2024 conference.

Topics of Interest

EuroSec seeks contributions on all aspects of systems security. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

  • New attacks, evasions techniques, and defenses
  • Operating systems security
  • Mobile systems security
  • Malicious code analysis and detection
  • Web security
  • Network security
  • Reverse engineering and binary analysis
  • Virtual machine and hypervisors
  • Measuring security
  • Trusted computing and its applications
  • Systems security aspects of privacy
  • Identity management and anonymity
  • Systems-based forensics
  • Vulnerability discovery, analysis, and exploitation
  • Embedded systems security
  • Cybercrime ecosystem and economics
  • Security of critical infrastructures

In accordance with the spirit of EuroSys, we also seek:

  • Experience with existing systems
  • Reproduction of refutation of previous results
  • Negative results
  • Early and promising ideas

Paper submissions

You are invited to submit papers of up to 6 pages in double-column ACM format, excluding the bibliography. Submitted papers must use the latest ACM sigconf proceedings template. You should not modify key aspects of the template, such as font face, spacing, etc. The template, as well as instructions on how to use it, can be found here. All submission should be anonymized; papers that have not been properly anonymized may be rejected without review.

All submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee. Only original, novel work will be considered for publication. Accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings of EuroSec in the ACM Digital Library. One author of each accepted paper is required to attend the workshop and present the paper for it to be included in the proceedings.

Submissions should be made online at https://eurosec24.hotcrp.com/

PROGRAMME

Scheduled time

Programme

08:30 - 09:00

Registration

09:00-09:15

Opening

09:15-10:00

Christian Wressnegger, Computer Science at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Prospects and Limits of Explainable AI in Systems Security 

10:00-10:30

Paper session A - VM introspection

  • Léo Cosseron, Louis Rilling, Matthieu Simonin, and Martin Quinson. Hiding Virtual Machine Introspection Pauses in Networked Sandboxes with Network Simulation.

10:30-11:00

Coffee

11:00-12:30

Paper session B - Programming Language Safety

  • Antonis Louka, Antreas Dionysio, and Elias Athanasopoulos. Validating Memory Safety in Rust Binaries.
  • Kui Wang, Dmitry Kasatkin, Vincent Ahlrichs, Lukas Auer, Konrad Hohentanner, Julian Horsch, and Jan-Erik Ekberg. Cherifying Linux: A Practical View on using CHERI
  • Benjamin Orthen, Oliver Braunsdorf, Philipp Zieris, and Julian Horsch. SoftBound+CETS Revisited: More Than a Decade Later

12:30-13:45

Lunch

13:48-14:30

Discussion panel Topic: Applications of New Machine Learning Techniques in Systems Security

14:30-15:30

Paper session C - Internet of Things

  • Luca Mottola, Arslan Hameed, and Thiemo Voigt. Energy Attacks in the Battery-less Internet of Things: Directions for the Future
  • Paul Krüger, Stefan Wildermann, and Jürgen Teich. CRESTS: Chronology-based Reconstruction for Side-Channel Trace Segmentation for XTS-AES on Complex Targets

15:30-16:00

Coffee

16:00-17:00

Paper session D - Crypto and Networks

  • Nikos Fotiou, Yannis Thomas, and George Xylomenos. Data integrity protection for data spaces
  • Xianghao Niu, Marco M. Cook, and Dimitrios Pezaros. Examining the Suitability of Stream Ciphers for Modbus-TCP Encryption on Resource Constrained Devices

17:00-17:15

Closing

Keynote Speaker

Christian Wressnegger, Computer Science at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Keynote: Prospects and Limits of Explainable AI in Systems Security 

Keynote Abstract:

Learning-based systems effectively assist in various computer security challenges, such as preventing network intrusions, reverse engineering, vulnerability discovery, or detecting malware. However, modern (deep) learning methods often lack understandable reasoning in their decision process, making crucial decisions less trustworthy. Recent advances in “Explainable AI” (XAI) have turned the tables, enabling precise relevance attribution of input features for otherwise opaque models.

This talk explores the prospects and limits of XAI in systems security, demonstrating where it can and cannot (yet) be used reliably.

Keynote speaker Bio:

Christian Wressnegger is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) heading the “Artificial Intelligence and Security” research group. His research revolves around combining machine learning (or AI in the broader scope) and computer security. He develops methods in the area of system security and application security, for instance, approaches for attack detection or vulnerability discovery in software. Moreover, he researches the robustness of machine learning against attacks striving for “secure AI.” In this context, he is particularly interested in the security of XAI.

COMMITTEE

PC chairs

  • Erik van der Kouwe, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
  • Nikos Vasilakis, Brown University

PC members

  • Adriana Sejfia, The University of Edinburgh
  • Alessandro Sorniotti, IBM Research Europe
  • Alexios Voulimeneas, TU Delft
  • Andrea Continella, University of Twente
  • Andrea Mambretti, IBM Research Europe – Zurich
  • Antonio Bianchi, Purdue University
  • Aravind Machiry, Purdue University
  • Bjorn De Sutter, Ghent University
  • Daniele Cono D’Elia, Sapienza University of Rome
  • Dario Stabili, Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna
  • Dongyoon Lee, Stony Brook University
  • Georgios Smaragdakis, TU Delft
  • Giorgos Vasiliadis, Hellenic Mediterranean University and FORTH-ICS
  • Ioannis Agadakos , Amazon
  • James C Davis, Purdue University
  • Jan-Erik Ekberg, Huawei Technologies LLC
  • Justin Cappos, New York University
  • Kevin Borgolte, Ruhr University Bochum
  • Lorenzo De Carli, University of Calgary
  • Magnus Almgren, Chalmers University of Technology
  • Marcela Melara, Intel Labs
  • Marco Squarcina, TU Wien
  • Mariano Graziano, JPMorgan Chase
  • Marius Muench, University of Birmingham
  • Martina Lindorfer, TU Wien
  • Matthias Neugschwandtner, Oracle Labs
  • Panagiotis Ilia, Cyprus University of Technology
  • Pierre Laperdrix, CNRS
  • Ridwan Shariffdeen, National University of Singapore
  • Roland Yap, National University of Singapore
  • Serena Elisa Ponta, SAP Security Research
  • Sofia Celi, Brave
  • Stefano Zanero, Politecnico di Milano
  • Stijn Volckaert, DistriNet, KU Leuven
  • Yue Chen, ByteDance
  • Zhen Huang, DePaul University

Web & publication co-chairs

  • Evangelos Lamprou, DTU, Denmark
  • Nikos Pagonas, Brown University, USA

Publicity chair

  • Grigoris Ntousakis, Brown University, USA & TU Crete, Greece

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