Thanks for joining IFIP SEC 2011                                                        

The 26th IFIP TC-11 International Information Security Conference (IFIP SEC2011) was a full success. The Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts organized this conference for the technical chapter (TC) 11 “Security and Privacy in Information Processing Systems” as is a part of the International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP) which it recognized by the United Nations.

Some facts of the conference:

Over 150 experts of 28 countries (DE, US, UK, FR, SE, AU, ZA, …) attended the conference

Tree keynote speekers                                             
Dr. Ann Cavoukian, Information and Privacy Commissioner (IPC) of Ontario, Canada
Prof. Dr. Michael Waidner, Director of Fraunhofer SIT Darmstadt Germany
Prof. Dr. René Hüsler, Director of Engineering and Architecture, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland

24 paper presentation about Authentication / Intrusion Detection / Malware, Information Flow & DoS attacks / Network Security & Security Protocols / Policy Compliance and Obligations / Privacy attacks and Privacy-enhancing Technologies / Risk Analysis and Security Metrics / Software Security
All presented papers are available in the proceedings.
www.springer.com/computer/communication+networks/book/978-3-642-21423-3

The PrimeLife Summit Event, the presentation of the results of three years EU funded research in the “Privacy and Identity Management in Europe for Life”.
www.primelife.eu/summit

The Picos Summit Event, the presentation of the results of three years EU funded research in “Privacy and Identity Management for Community Services”.
www.picos-project.eu

IFIP Workgroup 11.4 iNetSEC meeting about "Open Problems in Network Security" with 12 presented papers about: Assisting Users, Malware Detection, Saving Energy & Problems in the Cloud, Policies, Problems in the Cloud
www.zurich.ibm.com/inetsec2011

IFIP Workgroup 11.8. WISE7 "The Seventh World Conference on Information Security Education" with 20 presented papers in Security Education Research.
www.118.ifip.info/

The Industrial Track “Research meets Industry” Bruce Nikkel, UBS; Rangar Schierholz, ABB; Stefan Burschka, RUAG; Lorenz Müller, AXSionics; Claire Vishik, INTEL

Two Social Events have been used for networking around the world.

Three proceedings: IFIP SEC 2011, PrimeLife, Prime
www.springer.com/computer

All the attendees enjoyed the great hospitality of location (rooms, refreshments, lunch, and last but not least the Toblerone chocolate) at the University as conference site and the kindness of the city Lucerne. Thanks to the good organisation of the Institute of Business Information Technology the five days event run smoothly and was honored by the attendees.

We also like to thank the sponsors of the IFIP SEC 2011, first the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Art for providing the perfect facility, the gold sponsor UBS and the bronze sponsors: Crypto, Computers&Security and isec.

As organizing chair of IFIP SEC 2011 I like to thank all the attendees for joining our conference. A special thank goes to the Chair of IFIP TC 11 Prof. Dr. Kai Rannenberg and Program Chairs of IFIP SEC 2011 Prof. Dr. habil. Simone Fischer-Hübner, Prof. Yuko Murayam and Dr. Jan Camenisch.

July 2011, Prof. Carlos Rieder, Organizing Chair IFIP SEC 2011

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