IT Security for the Next Generation - Asia Pacific & MEA Cup 2012

Conference Objective

This conference brings together students, experts, scientists and researchers in a collaborative environment to present and discuss issues relating to cybercrime. It provides a platform for the next generation to be able to share their respective knowledge and experiences and to develop new ideas to improve the level of security in information technology.

The best submissions will be given awards and valuable prizes (1st place 1500$, 2nd place 1000$ and 3rd place 750$) from Kaspersky Lab and the authors will be invited to attend the MEA and Asia Pacific Conference for Young Professionals to be held on 14 – 16 March, 2012 at City University of Hong Kong. The authors will be given a certificate of participation.

Participation is free. All copyrights observed. Research papers published at www.kaspersky.com

You can find more info on our dedicated facebook page & the video of the conference here.

Conference opportunities:

Connection with the experts from IT Security Industry
Professional growth and skills development
IT Security knowledge improvement & practice
Innovative ways of thinking development
Knowledge, ideas and experience exchange
Exciting career opportunities

Conference Topics

Technical Topics:

Trends in Anti-Spam Development – Techniques, Methods in the “Spam Arms Race” and new Innovations
Dangers of an increasingly Networked World
“In the Cloud”-Security
Future Technologies for Detecting and Combating Malware (e.g. artificial intelligence, fuzzy systems, p2p-networks)

Social, economic and legal Topics:

Emerging Threats (e.g. social network security, embedded systems security, mobile security, online banking security)
Challenges and Opportunities for IT-Security Companies within the next 10 Years
Impact of technologies on Data Protection, Copy and Intellectual Property Rights and Jurisdiction
Education in IT Security - Trends and Questions

Conference Participants

Bachelor, Master and Ph.D. Students from all Asia Pacific, African and Middle East Universities, Institutes of Higher Education and Graduate Schools are welcome to apply. The program committee will evaluate and select the best submissions.

Those who would like to participate should register here & send the research by January 18th, 2012 to studconf-asia@kaspersky.com

Countries

Students from the following countries can participate in this conference:

Asia-pacific, Middle East & Africa :
Australia, Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Jordanian, Korea, Lebanon, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, New Zealand, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Syria, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Vietnam, Yemen, all countries of Africa.

Click here for “Info Brochure Asia Pacific & MEA Cup 2012”

Kaspersky Lab Asia Pacific & MEA Cup 2012, March 14- 16, 2012 (Wednesday- Friday)

March 14, 2011 (WED)

Time	Event	Owner
09:00 - 16:00	Arrival/ Registration and Check-in at hotel	The Excelsior HKG, Café on the 1st
16:00 - 16:10	Welcome Meeting Veniamin Ginodman, Head of Educational Programs Management, Kaspersky Lab	The Excelsior HKG, Harbour View, Room III, 3/F
16:10 - 18:00	Presentation Skills Training for Participants Ram Herkanaidu, Education Manager, Kaspersky Lab	The Excelsior HKG, Harbour View, Room III, 3/F
19:00- 21:00	WELCOME COCKTAIL at hotel	The Excelsior HKG, Harbour View, Room IV, 3/F

March 15, 2011 (THUR)

Time	Event	Owner
07:00 - 08:30	BREAKFAST	The Excelsior HKG, Café on the 1st
08:30 - 09:15	Meet at Lobby for transfer to City University	The Excelsior HKG, Lobby
09:00 - 09:30	Registration by students	City U, Creative Media Centre, Level 3, M3017
09:30 - 09:35	Welcome Opening Video Eugene Kaspersky, Chief Executive Officer, Kaspersky Lab	City U, Creative Media Centre, Level 3, M3017
09:35 - 09:45	Welcome Opening Address Harry Cheung , Managing Director, Kaspersky Lab	City U, Creative Media Centre, Level 3, M3017
09:45 - 09:55	Introduction to Kaspersky Lab Academy and International Student Conference Veniamin Ginodman, Head of Educational Programs Management, Kaspersky Lab	City U, Creative Media Centre, Level 3, M3017
09:55 - 10:05	Welcome Opening Address City University of Hong Kong	City U, Creative Media Centre, Level 3, M3017
10:05- 11:20	Students' Presentation Part 1
	Classifier optimization and feature subset selection in a spam/non-spam detection system Amir Rajabi - Universiti Teknologi MARA (Malaysia)	City U, Creative Media Centre, Level 3, M3017
	Socio-Legal Impacts of ICT Adoption: A Case Study of the Malaysian High Courts Ani Munirah Mohamad - Universiti Teknologi MARA (Malaysia)	City U, Creative Media Centre, Level 3, M3017
	Simple Port Knocking Method Against TCP Replay Attack and Port Scanning Azuan Alias - Universiti Teknologi MARA (Malaysia)	City U, Creative Media Centre, Level 3, M3017
	QR code: Emerging Threat to Mobile Security and A Protective System Devinder Kumar - National Institute of Technology Warangal (India)	City U, Creative Media Centre, Level 3, M3017
	The R-Wall System(Concept of Multiple kernel scanning in detecting malwares) Divyajyoti Das - Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Bhubaneswar (India)	City U, Creative Media Centre, Level 3, M3017
11:20- 11:35	COFFEE BREAK (University Catering)	City U, Creative Media Centre, Level 3, Foyer
11:35- 12:50	Students' Presentation Part 2
	SOUL System: Secure Online USB Login System Joshua Arvin Lat - University of the Philippines (Philippines)	City U, Creative Media Centre, Level 3, M3017
	SASy Username and Password Management on the Cloud Majid Nasiri Nejad - Multimedia University (Malaysia)	City U, Creative Media Centre, Level 3, M3017
	Semantic Malware Detection by Deploying Graph Mining Mansour Ahmadi - Shiraz University (Iran)	City U, Creative Media Centre, Level 3, M3017
	Analysis of Cloud Security Problem and Proposed Igloo Solution Manu Pandit - Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) Pilani (India)	City U, Creative Media Centre, Level 3, M3017
	Mining Modules’ Dependencies for Malware Detection Masoud Narouei - Shiraz University (Iran)	City U, Creative Media Centre, Level 3, M3017
12:50 - 14:30	LUNCH (University Catering)	City U, Creative Media Centre, Level 8
14:30- 15:30	Students' Presentation Part 3
	Impact of an Action Cyber Crime Prevention Programme on Secondary School Students’ Learning Outcomes in Civics and Social Studies in Nigeria: Implications for Global Prevention Olugbenga Adedayo IGE - University of Ibadan (Nigeria)	City U, Creative Media Centre, Level 3, M3017
	Vox-Grid: A Mobile Voice Verification System Ranyel Bryan L. Maliwanagy - University of the Philippines (Philippines)	City U, Creative Media Centre, Level 3, M3017
	Content Addressable Memory (CAM) for Layer 2 Switches Sham Rizal Ramlee - Universiti Teknologi MARA (Malaysia)	City U, Creative Media Centre, Level 3, M3017
	Lifting the Veil behind the IP Address: Is John Doe Pirating? Wei Shuai - City University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)	City U, Creative Media Centre, Level 3, M3017
15:30- 15:45	COFFEE BREAK (University Catering)	City U, Creative Media Centre, Level 3, Foyer
15:45- 16:45	The Threat Landscape in 2012 and beyond! -Dr. Bogdan Ghita, Associate Professor, School of Computing and Mathematics, University of Plymouth, UK -Dr. Paul Benjamin Lowry, Associate Professor, Department of Information Systems, City University of Hong Kong -Dr. Raymond Choo, Senior Lecturer, School of Computer and Information Science, University of South Australia -Nathan Wang, Technical Director, Kaspersky Lab APAC -Michael Molsner, Head of Anti-Malware GReAT, Kaspersky Lab Japan (Moderator: Ram Herkanaidu, Education Manager, Kaspersky Lab)	City U, Creative Media Centre, Level 3, M3017
16:45- 17:15	Presentation title TBC Stefan Tanase, Senior Security Researcher GReAT, Kaspersky Lab	City U, Creative Media Centre, Level 3, M3017
17:15- 17:30	Group photo
17:30 -18:15	Transfer to Restaurant	City U, Creative Media Centre
18:15- 20:15	DINNER @ The PEAK LOOKOUT	The Peak HKG
21:00	Back to hotel	The Excelsior HKG

March 16, 2011 (FRI)

Time	Event	Owner
07:00- 08:15	BREAKFAST	The Excelsior HKG, Café on the 1st
08:15- 09:00	Transfer to City U	The Excelsior HKG, Lobby
09:00- 09:45	Fake AntiVirus - A Trick Box Michael Molsner, Head of Anti-Malware GReAT, Kaspersky Lab Japan	City U, Creative Media Centre, Level 3, M3017
09:45- 10:15	Award ceremony	City U, Creative Media Centre, Level 3, M3017
10:15- 10:45	Token of Appreciation	City U, Creative Media Centre, Level 3, M3017
10:45- 11:00	Group photo	City U, Creative Media Centre, Level 3, M3017
11:00- 11:15	COFFEE BREAK (University Catering)	City U, Creative Media Centre, Level 3, M3017
11:15- 12:00	Back to hotel
13:00 onwards	Departure

Conference Format and Participation

Participation is free. All copyrights observed. Research papers published at www.kaspersky.com

Language: English, Chinese (only for students from China)

In order to take part in the conference, please fill in the web form that can be found here and submit your research in either .ZIP or .RAR format (the .ZIP or .RAR file must contain two documents, .PDF format – i.e. an abstract of your paper and your paper).

Submissions will be accepted until January 18th, 2012 (inclusive)

The authors of the best research papers, as assessed by the program committee, will be invited to present their work at the Conference. Expenses (travel and hotel) may be paid for participants from other cities and countries, at the discretion of Kaspersky Lab.

If successful, applicants will be notified on February 6^th, 2012. Conference applicants will receive notification by email. A list of the best reports will be published on the conference website.

One speaker representing each submitted work will be considered as an official conference participant. There is no limit on the number of authors involved with each submission.

Submission Requirements

Language: English, Chinese

(The final paper should be translated into English in order to attend the Asia Pacific & MEA Cup)

Please include the following on the title page:

The title of the paper
The name of the category for which the paper is being submitted
The author(s) full name(s) in alphabetical order, if there are several authors
Date of birth (of each author)
E-Mail address (mandatory) (of each author)
Postal address (incl. postcode) (of each author)
Phone number (incl. country code) (of each author)
City, Country (of each author)
Year of study, Course Title (of each author)
Name of the University/ Institute (of each author)
The professor managing the research: full name, position, academic degree and title and E-Mail address
Language: English, Chinese (only for students from China)

The abstract of your paper should be no more than a page long and yet give a complete summary of your research. This is a synopsis of the whole document, which should allow the reader to gain an understanding of the objectives and outcome of the actual paper. It is brief and to the point, normally between 130-200 words maximum.

Your papers should contain the following:

A clear Introduction to the topic and aims of the paper
A section presenting background/ literature review
One of more sections presenting the student's main contribution (i.e. approach and any associated results)
A clear conclusion
References in Harvard standard format

IMPORTANT! We are not interested in 'copy and paste' research papers. It has to be your own work based on your own research activity.

Evaluation criteria:

The program committee consists of the experts of Kaspersky Lab and the professors all around the world.
Your paper will be evaluated by the following criteria:

Innovative value
Practical value
Social importance and relevance of the research
Comprehensive content
Objective information and analysis
Scientific and methodological development
Presentation of research work

For more information please write to: studconf-asia@kaspersky.com