Edgar Weippl gives a talk on Database Forensic at the Security Forum in Hagenberg (http://www.securityforum.at/vortraege.php).

Abstract: Whenever data is being processed, there are many places where parts of the data are temporarily stored; thus forensic analysis can reveal past activities, create a (partial) timeline and restore deleted data. While this fact is well known for computer forensic and multiple tools to forensically analyze data exit, the systematic analysis of database systems has only recently begun.

Clearly, database system are bound to leave more extensive traces since they not only store a file but, in addition, need indexes, rollback segments and log files. In this tutorial we will cover the basics of forensic analysis particularly focusing on database systems.

Secure Business Austria is now member of AARIT (www.aarit.at) and ERCIM (www.ercim.org).

Günter Müller (http://www.telematik.uni-freiburg.de/content/mitarbeiter?q=user/4) gave an excellent talk on compliance and risk management.

Our paper “An Evaluation of Technologies for the Pseudonymization of Medical Data” was accepted for publication.

Our paper “An Empirical Study about the Status of Business Process Management” was accepted for publication.

We are attending the IEEE International Conference on Systems and present our latest research results regarding pseudonymization. We received the best paper award for the paper “Technologies for the Pseudonymization of Medical Data: A Legal Evaluation”.

We took the second place with the project Secure 2.0 (FIT-IT) in this year’s FIT-IT awards.

Ludwig Fuchs (http://www-ifs.uni-regensburg.de/index.php?id=34) gave an excellent talk on combining role mining and role engineering.

Stefan Sackmann (http://www.telematik.uni-freiburg.de/mitarbeiter/sackmann/) gave a talk on risk management. We will start a collaboration with his group. Stefan Fenz will manage the joint research efforts.

Today, the FIT-IT project Secure 2.0 – Securing the Information Sharing on Web 2.0 has been officially launched at Secure Business Austria.

Our paper “Ontological mapping of information security best-practice guidelines” has been accepted at the 12th International Conference on Business Information Systems (Project Details).

We are attending the 4th ETSI Security Workshop and present our latest information security risk management research results (Details).

15th of January 2009 10:00 at Secure Business Austria: “Understanding the perpetration of employee computer crime in the organizational context”

16th of January 2009 15:00 at Secure Business Austria: “Motivations for employee computer crime in the organizational context”

We are attending the HICSS-42 conference and present our latest information security risk management research results (Details).

Our paper “Formalizing Information Security Knowledge” has been accepted at the ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security 2009 (Project Details).

Our paper “Automated Risk and Utility Management” has been accepted at the IEEE International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations 2009 (Project Details).

The FIT-IT Pathfinder project review is scheduled for the 21st of January 2009.

The PIPE project has been extended to the next level. See the PIPE project description for further details.

At the LSZ CIO Congress 2008 (http://www.lsz-consulting.at/veranstaltungen/event/lsz_kongress2008/index.htm) , SBA Managing Director Markus Klemen will organize the area “Security / Risk” and will moderate the workshop “Change in IT-Security – A lookout”. Managing Partner Andreas Tomek will represent Security Research at the event.

SBA organizes the ARES Conference (http://www.ares-conference.eu/). This year’s conference will be held in Japan. In 2010 the conference will move back to Europe, where Vienna is the planned venue.

ARES aims at a full and detailed discussion of the research issues of dependability as an integrative concept that covers amongst others availability, safety, confidentiality, integrity, maintainability and security in the different fields of applications.

ARES will emphasize the interplay between foundations and practical issues of dependability in emerging areas such as e-government, m-government, location-based applications, ubiquitous computing, autonomous computing, chances of grid computing etc.

In October 2008, Edgar Weippl joined the STRAW project as an external expert.

STRAW stands for ‘Security Technology Active Watch‘. STRAW is a support action under the Security Research theme that aims at providing a European Service of Technology Watch on Security Technologies.

The consortium:

• Atos Origin SAE
• AeroSpace and Defence Industries Association
• Thales Services S.AS € Stiftelsen SINTEF
• Fraunhofer FHG
• Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacia
• Elsag Datamat S.p.A
• Asociación de Empresas de Electrónica, Tecnologías de la Información y Telecomunicaciones de España (AETIC)
• Fondazione Rosselli
• European Organisation for Security (EOS)

Scope:
The concept of STRAW is to bring together the defence and security research industry by a neutral coordination to ensure the awareness of underpinning technologies that make possible the implementation of civil security applica tions.

The target of STRAW is to stimulate the cooperation of providers and users f or civil security applications.

8.10.08: At the “Impulse08” events of the Austrian Computer Society (OCG) in Vienna, Graz and Salzburg, GM Markus Klemen talks about the challenges to IT-Security due to company employees.

01./02.10.08: General Manager Markus Klemen presents new developments in the area of data theft at two events for executives, which were organized by the Abwehramt, the defense intelligence unit of the Austrian Ministry of Defense.

At the Vienna media exhibition (http://www.medienmesse.at/) Edgar Weippl presents current projects of the research centre in cooperation with ZIT (Zentrum für Innovation und Technologie – Center for Innovation and Technology: http://www.zit.co.at/).

Computer Forensics work on securing and analyzing digital data in order to reconstruct cancelled information, track changes or manipulations and to prove chronological coherences. Every use of digital data leaves traces that are difficult to erase, which endangers the confidentiality of information or renders falsified information identifiable.

SBA supports microsoft’s student partners organizing this years academic community launch.
This event aims at informing students about the newest technologies regarding .NET.
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