CSA EMEA Congress 2016: Call for Papers

Date: 
Monday, 4 July, 2016 - 00:00 CET

The Cloud Security Alliance EMEA Congress is Europe’s premier cloud security event and is designed around the CSA’s core mission of promoting the use of best practices for providing security assurance within Cloud Computing and to provide education on the uses of Cloud Computing to help secure all other forms of computing.

This year’s event takes place on 15 November in Madrid with compelling presentations and interesting discussions about research, development, practice and trends related to cloud security.

The Call for Papers is open until 1 August 2016. Topics of interest include:

Current and emerging trends

  • Containerisation and micro service security
  • Software Defined Perimeter (SDP)
  • Blockchain technologies
  • Cloud enabled vs. Cloud-centric application
  • Multi factor authentication
  • Cloud based solutions for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
  • Threat landscape for cloud computing
  • IoT and Cloud, e.g Cloud and smart cities, smart transport.
  • Big Data security

Privacy in the Cloud

  • The impact of the European General Data Protection Regulations
  • How to manage legal and security compliance in a multi national environment
  • Cyber Security Laws and Regulation in Europe
  • The impact of the right to be forgotten in the cloud
  • Privacy and Security by design
  • Encryption solutions and trends

Risk Management, Certification and standards for the cloud

  • The role of standards within organisations
  • Case studies on the adoption of cloud certification
  • How manage Governance Risk and Compliance in the Cloud
  • Risk Profiling
  • Security and Privacy Service Level Agreements
  • Cloud Security Automation: how to develop and implement framework for automatic risk calculation and response.
  • SaaS Governance

Incident Management in the Cloud

  • Incident Information Sharing
  • Leveraging Big Data for Threat intelligence in the Cloud
  • Cloud Forensics
  • SIEM in the Cloud
  • Cloud Security Gateways vs. SIEM
  • Privacy Breaches Reporting
  • Reporting Security Breaches: the state of art in Europe
  • Cloud Disaster Recovery


Cloud Computing in critical sectors

  • Finance sector
  • ehealth
  • eGovernment
  • Energy
  • Transport


Submission guidelines

Proposals cutting across the above topics are also encouraged.
Proposals, presentations, panels, or sessions must be in English and should provide a learning opportunity for the conference attendees.
In case a proposal is accepted, the author (or one of the authors) must attend
Proposals that focus on marketing or promoting a product or service will not be considered.
Proposals from marketing or PR professionals (external or internal) will not be considered.

The proposal should include

A brief explanatory paper (PDF format, maximum length of 2 pages).
A draft of the presentation in PDF format (maximum 20 slides).
A short bio of the speaker(s) and her-his previous speaking experience (PDF format, max 1 page per speaker).