PRESENTATION

Future pervasive communication systems aim at supporting social and collaborative communications: the evolving topologies are expected to resemble the actual social networks of the communicating users and information on their characteristics can be a powerful aid for any network operation. New emerging technologies that use information on the social characteristics of their participants raise entirely new privacy concerns and require new reflections on security problems such as trust establishment, cooperation enforcement or key management.

The aim of this workshop is to encompass research advances in all areas of security, trust and privacy in pervasive communication systems, integrating the social structure of the network as well.

The key note: “Threats to the Social Web”, will be given by Ryan McGeehan of facebook Inc. It deals with real world threats against the social web and highlights the perspective of the provider of one of the largest, may be the largest, online social networks of today. Ryan McGeehan is the Security Manager for Incident Response at Facebook. He has been at Facebook since early 2007 (~40 million users), and is responsible for research and response into threats to Facebook. He is also involved with the Honeynet Project with research around web application threats and honeypot development.

Sonja Buchegger (KTH, Sweden) will give an invited talk on the research agenda of privacy in online social networks, highlighting the chances as well as the current problems, issues and development of decentralized approaches.