IEEE Task Force on Information Assurance

IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing

Technical Area

Security and Reliability of Scalable Systems

Introduction

Large-scale commodity distributed systems are used in an increasing number of domains: academic, research, and industrial environments. At the same time, these systems are exposed to an increasing number of attacks coming from inside or outside networks. Therefore, mechanisms for increased security and reliability have now become an essential requirement for scalable systems.

This technical area includes a variety of security and reliability-related topics in emerging scalable systems such as cluster computing, grid computing as well as p2p networks. The main issues may include authentication, authorization, privacy, confidentiality, auditing, firewalls, trust establishment, policy establishment, fault-tolerant, and dynamics, scalability and management aspects of all of the above.

Groups & Projects

TFIA, Task Force on Information Assurance

Cluster Security (Cluster-Sec) & On-Demand Secure Cluster Computing (ODSCC)

NVisionCC, a software tool for visually monitoring the security of computing clusters

TinySec, Link Layer Encryption for Tiny Devices

Related conferences

IEEE Security in Storage Workshop, SISW'05, SISW'07, in conjunction with the USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST) and in cooperation with the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR), sponsored by the IEEE Task Force on Information Assurance and the TC on Mass Storage

IEEE International Workshop on Information Assurance, IWIA'06, sponsored by TFIA and TCSE

IEEE International Workshops on Critical Infrastructure Protection, (IWCIP.org)

International Workshop on Cluster Security, Cluster-Sec'05, Cluster-Sec'06, in conjunction with CCGrid

International Workshop on Storage Security and Survivability, StorageSS'05, StorageSS'06, in conjunction with ACM CCS.

Workshop on Information Assurance, WIA-2006,

Contact

Coordinator: Bin Xiao

Department of Computing
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Office: PQ824, Mong Man Wai Building
Phone: (852) 2766-7270
Fax: (852) 2774-0842
Email: csbxiao@comp.polyu.edu.hk

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