Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Security of Information and Networks

Abstract

Dear colleagues and friends, we invite you to the 8th International Conference on Security of Information and Networks (SIN 2015), which is held in Sochi, one of the most beautiful cities in Russia. In 2014, Sochi held remarkable Winter Olympic Games. You will be inspired by warm Black Sea, high Caucasus, and interesting discussions of information security problems. The conference of SIN series is held in Russia for the second time. It is hosted by Southern Federal University (SFedU), in particularly by its following subdivisions: the Institute of Computing Technologies and Information Security, the Department of IT-Security, and South-Russian Regional Educational and Research Center for IT-Security Problems. The honorary chair of the conference is Dr. Marina Borovskaya, the rector of SFedU. The 8th International Conference on Security of Information and Networks is an international forum for presentation of theoretical and applied results in the area of information and network security. SIN 2015 continues the tradition of fruitful meetings of SIN series in Famagusta, Taganrog, Sydney, Jaipur, Aksaray, and Glasgow. Future conferences are scheduled to take place in the USA (2016) and Australia (2017). The program of SIN 2015 includes invited and selected peer-reviewed talks, as well as special sessions on theory and practice of information security. The papers will be published in the digital library of Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) and indexed by Scopus. Just like previous events of SIN series, SIN 2015 is carried out in technical cooperation with Special Interest Group on Security Audit and Control of ACM. The Program Committee received 92 paper proposal, of which 34 were accepted as full papers and 29 were accepted as short papers, position statements and fast abstracts. Geographical distribution of the participants is quite diverse. There are 37 representatives of 16 Russian universities, including Southern Federal University, National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Bauman Moscow State Technological University, Kazan National Research Technological University, Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, Novosibirsk State University, Omsk State University of Technology, Siberian State Aerospace University, Samara State University of Technology, etc. Nearly thirty participants of the conference represent universities and research institutions of Belgium, China, Colombia, Germany, India, Iran, Italy, Luxembourg, Pakistan, Tunisia, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the USA.