SSR 2014: Security Standardisation Research

Where and when

SSR 2014, the 1st International Conference on Research in Security Standardisation, was hosted by the Information Security Group at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, on the 16th and 17th of December 2014.

History

SSR 2014 was the first in a series of conferences focusing on the theory, technology and applications of security standards. SSR 2015 will be held in Japan in December 2015.

Scope

Over the last two decades a very wide range of standards have been developed covering a wide range of aspects of cyber security. These documents have been published by national and international formal standardisation bodies, as well as by industry consortia. Many of these standards have become very widely used - to take just one example, the ISO/IEC 27000 series of standards has become the internationally adopted basis for managing corporate information security.

Despite their wide use, there will always be a need to revise existing security standards and to add new standards to cover new domains. The purpose of this conference is to discuss the many research problems deriving from studies of existing standards, the development of revisions to existing standards, and the exploration of completely new areas of standardisation. Indeed, many security standards bodies are only beginning to address the issue of transparency, so that the process of selecting security techniques for standardisation can be seen to be as scientific and unbiased as possible.

This conference is intended to cover the full spectrum of research on security standardisation, including, but not restricted to, work on cryptographic techniques (including ANSI, IEEE, IETF, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27, ITU-T and NIST), security management, security evaluation criteria, network security, privacy and identity management, smart cards and RFID tags, biometrics, security modules, and industry-specific security standards (e.g. those produced by the payments, telecommunications and computing industries for such things as payment protocols, mobile telephony and trusted computing).

Proceedings

The proceedings of SSR 2014 were published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series as volume 8893. Further information is available here, and the online version can be retrieved here.

Acknowledgements

Many thanks to Concise Courses for including information about SSR 14 in their List of 2014 Security Conferences.