ASPI 2013 Completion

The successful completion of the ASPI 2013 Workshop

The ASPI 2013 (International Workshop on Adaptive Security & Privacy Management for the Internet of Things 2013) in conjunction with the 15th ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp2013] concluded on Sunday September 8, 2013, Zurich, Switzerland. The workshop featured 2 keynote speeches and 7 regular papers. The program of the workshop was as follows:

• Welcome & Introduction to the Workshop, Dr. Stefan Poslad

Keynote speech: Let us Develop a Secure IoT Environment, Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich

Session 1: Resilient & Transparent Security Schemes for the IoT, Chair Dr. Mohamed Hamdi

• 6LoWPAN Security: Adding Compromise Resilience to the 802.15.4 Security Sublayer (K-F Krentz)
• Delay Sensitive Distributed Sensor Data Exchange for an IoT (R. Tao, S. Poslad)

Keynote speech: Towards Adaptive Risk Management for the IoT, Dr. Mohamed Hamdi, Sup'Com

Session 2: Trust, Metrics and Adaptive Security Approaches for the IoT,  Chair Dr. Habtamu Abie

• Trusted Tiny Things: Making Internet of Things More Transparent to Users (E. Pignotti, P. Edwards)
• Metrics-Driven Security Objective Decomposition for an E-Health Application with Adaptive Security Management (R. Savola, H. Abie)

Session 3: Security implementation issues in the IoT, Chair Dr. Stefan Poslad

• Lightweight Security Vehicle Tracking System Using CoAP (A. Ukil, S. Bandyopadhyay, A. Bhattacharyya, A. Pal)
• Secure Cooperative Physical-layer Coding for the Internet of Things (M. Hamdi)
• A Testbed for Adaptive Security for IoT in eHealth (Y. B. Woldegeorgis, H. Abie, M. Hamdi)
• Closing remarks and discussion (S. Poslad)

The first keynote speech, "Let’s Develop a Secure IoT Environment" by Peter Mueller has focussed on one of the absolutely critical aspects within the IoT environment – Security whose functions and attributes are required at every level, from a tiny sensor device ranging up to a high performance data center on a backbone. Today’s new requirements regarding technology, policies and standards were reviewed, and some conjectures were given on where advanced security might take us and the IoT in the future.

Peter Mueller joined IBM Research as a Research Staff Member in 1988. He is also the Chair of the IEEE Communications and Information Systems Security Technical Committee (CIS-TC).  His research expertise covers broad areas of human-machine interfaces, distributed computing systems architecture and security, communications and interconnects technology, device physics, nanoscience, and computer modeling.  Focusing on systems architecture, his main experience is in the fields of channel coding techniques, cryptography, and error control and correction methods; resource allocation and re-allocation, synchronization, and real-time behavior including cross layer reliability issues.  His current field of research is in the area of data center storage security and reliability.

The second keynote speech, "Towards Adaptive Risk Management for the IoT" by Dr. Mohamed Hamdi has addressed the application of risk management methodologies and risk analysis processes to the IoT. The intrinsic features of the IoT have first been underlined. Then, the shortcomings of the traditional frameworks to address these specific needs have been discussed. Particularly, the need for real-time reactivity and the support of a dynamic context have been emphasized. Several new methodologies, protocols, and algorithms that have been recently developed to apply adaptive security to the IoT have been reviewed. Finally, some open issues were highlighted.

Mohamed Hamdi is currently a visiting researcher at the Norwegian Computing Center where he contributes to the ASSET project. He is also an Associate Professor at University of Carthage, Tunisia. He co-authored more than 80 scientific publications in international journals and conferences. He was the chair of the 'Cloud security' industry forum in the IEEE ICC'12 conference (Ottawa, Canada).  He is conducting research activities in the areas of adaptive risk management, lightweight security for the IoT, algebraic modeling, cloud security, and advanced network forensics.

The seven regular papers,

• 6LoWPAN Security: Adding Compromise Resilience to the 802.15.4 Security Sublayer by K-F Krentz et al. 
• Delay Sensitive Distributed Sensor Data Exchange for an IoT by R. Tao,and S. Poslad
• Trusted Tiny Things: Making Internet of Things More Transparent to Users by E. Pignotti and P. Edwards
• Metrics-Driven Security Objective Decomposition for an E-Health Application with Adaptive Security Management by R. Savola and H. Abie
• Lightweight Security Vehicle Tracking System Using CoAP by A. Ukil, S. Bandyopadhyay, A. Bhattacharyya, and A. Pal
• Secure Cooperative Physical-layer Coding for the Internet of Things by M. Hamdi
• A Testbed for Adaptive Security for IoT in eHealth by Y. B. Woldegeorgis, H. Abie, and M. Hamdi

Workshop Chairs

Dr. Stefan Poslad, School of Electonic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London

Dr. Mohamed Hamdi, School of Communication Engineering, Tunisia

Dr. Habtamu Abie, Norwegian Computing Center, Norway