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Tutorials
There will be
four tutorials of three hour each organized in two tracks on 18
December 2005.
Tutorials will be
organized at the Kolkata Extension Center of Birla Institute of
Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, India (Address: Southend Conclave, 1582,
Rajdanga Main Road, Kolkata - 700 107). It is located opposite Siemens
Building, on the Gariahat - EM Bypass Connector.
Participants who
have registered for the conference will have complimentary registration
for the tutorials. Since seats are limited, participants are requested to
indicate their choice of tutorials latest by 7th December,
2005.
Special
registration for "tutorials only" (for resident Indians) is offered,
on a first come first served basis, with the following fees:
For students
(recommended by the Head of the Dept./Institution): INR 200.00 per
student
For others:
INR 800.00 per person
For tutorials,
please contact the tutorial chairs:
Mrs. Sarmistha
Neogy (Email: sarmisthaneogy@computer.org)
Mr. R.T. Goswami
(Email: rtgoswami@bitmesra.ac.in).
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Dr.
Nasir Memon |
Professor,Computer
and Information Science at Polytechnic University, New York |
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DIGITAL IMAGE FORENSICS
Abstract
In the analog world,
an image (a photograph) has generally been accepted as a “proof of
occurrence” of the depicted event. In today’s digital age, the
creation and manipulation of digital images are made simple by digital
processing tools that are easily and widely available. As a
consequence, the authenticity of images, analog or digital, cannot be
taken for granted. Digital image forensics, in this context, is
concerned with uncovering some underlying fact about an image or video
and focuses mainly on two types of problems. The first is the source
identification problem where the aim is to determine through what
means a given image was generated and then associating it with a class
of sources that have common characteristics or matching it to a
specific source. The second problem is determining whether a given
image has undergone any form of modification or processing after it
was initially acquired.
This tutorial covers
many techniques developed to address the above two types of problems.
The first part focuses on two aspects of source camera identification.
The first aspect involves source camera-model identification. The
image features that capture the characteristics of each camera are
described, and experimental results obtained for digital cameras and
cell-phone cameras are provided. The second aspect concerns
establishing an association between a given image and a potential
source digital camera based on sensor imperfections. The second part
describes techniques developed for identifying images generated by a
computer graphics renderer. The descriptive features of computer
graphics are laid out and differences with digital camera images are
discussed. In the third part, image tampering and techniques to detect
doctored images are discussed along with experimental results.
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Dr.
Partha Pal |
Division
Scientist, BBN Technologies |
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Making Information
Systems Survive Cyber-Attacks
Abstract
Experience teaches us that attack prevention cannot be
absolute—some attacks will succeed, new attacks will always be
found. It turns out that intrusion detection is not accurate
either—some attacks will go undetected or will not be detected
early enough. But more and more aspects of our daily lives and
national security are becoming critically dependent on information
systems. What can be done to defend our information systems
against cyber-attacks, which is effectively an arms race that is
inherently asymmetric and favors the adversary? The only approach
that seems to hold promise is to build survivable systems—systems
that keep continue to work despite ongoing attacks.
But survivable systems do not “happen” automagically—and
everything labeled as “survivable” may not in fact be so
survivable after all. In this tutorial, we will navigate our ways
through the past epochs of cyber-defense to explain what
survivability really means, and how does one develop—i.e., design,
implement and validate—survivable systems. We will start with the
problems and explain the challenges in making a distributed
information system survive adversarial attacks. Then we will
describe general principles for a survivable system design, give
examples of survivability architecture, and present a case study
of how a pathfinder survivable system was developed, internally
tested and was finally taken to a proving ground for multiple
rounds of red-team exercises. The resulting system, which combined
a number of COTS and research-grade technologies, withstood
multiple hours of attacks by sophisticated red teams who were
given full knowledge, and often inside access to the defended
system. To contrast this, consider the fact that it takes on the
order of minutes for the adversary to completely disrupt the
undefended version of the same system.
Expected audience includes system architects and analysts,
distributed systems developers and service providers,
stakeholders in critical information systems (defense, critical
infrastructure etc), and researchers interested in advancing
cyber-defense.
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Indian Statistical institute, Kolkata,
India

Center For
Distributed Computing Jadavpur University Kolkata,
India

Center for Secure
Information Systems, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA

Birla Institute of Technology
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