Workshop on Mobility and Cloud Security & Privacy (WMCSP 2016)

Although mobile and cloud computing lie at two opposite edges of the internet, both are fundamental pieces of any wide scale distributed system, and used on a daily basis by millions of users to store personal and confidential information. This raises substantial challenges from the perspective of security and privacy. Mobile devices can be lost, stolen or compromised by malware; the connection from mobile devices to the cloud can be monitored and high-jacked by malicious hotspots; cloud providers have incentives to store and mine information about mobile users which may be leaked or sold. Furthermore, governments may force both cloud and mobile providers to provide access to sensible information or, even worse, to create backdoors on those infrastructures that may be exploited by malicious entities.

These threats require the development of coordinated mechanisms when connecting cloud and mobility in order to guarantee reliability and security of the services, and privacy of the data on all on all devices. The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners from security, mobile and cloud computing communities to present the state of the art, discuss emerging challenges and trends, and propose novel techniques, implementations and deployments of security, privacy, and reliability solutions for cloud and mobile services.

The workshop is looking for submissions in the form of papers with no more than 6 pages describing novel contributions and results, as well as experiments reports. The workshop welcomes contributions from both academia and industry, including papers that explore novel, in-progress ideas that are likely to foster discussion.