August 2-4, 2012 - Trivandrum, India

Buenos días from the God’s Own Country!

We are extremely delighted to announce the Call for Papers and Call for Workshops for c0c0n 2012, a 3-day Security and Hacking Conference (1 day pre-conference workshop and 2 day conference), full of interesting presentations, talks and of course filled with fun!

The conference topics are divided into four domains as follows:

• Info Sec - Technical
• Info Sec - Management
• Digital Forensics and Investigations
• Cyber Laws and Governance.

• New Vulnerabilities and Exploits/0-days
• Open Source Security&Hacking Tools
• Antivirus/Firewall/UTM Evasion Techniques
• Software Testing/Fuzzing
• Network and Router Hacking
• Malware analysis & Reverse Engineering
• Mobile Application Security-Threats and Exploits
• Advanced Penetration testing techniques
• Web Application Security & Hacking
• Browser Security
• Hacking virtualized environment
• WLAN and Bluetooth Security
• Lockpicking & physical security
• Honeypots/Honeynets
• Exploiting Layer 8/Social Engineering
• Cloud Security
• Critical Infrastructure & SCADA networks Security
• National Security & Cyber Warfare
• Cyber Forensics, Cyber Crime & Law Enforcement
• IT Auditing/Risk management and ISO 27001

CFP Review Committee

	Armando Romeo. Founder, eLearnSecurity Armando Romeo is the founder of eLearnSecurity, responsible for day-to-day management as well as content creation and delivery of all company courses. Prior to founding eLearnSecurity, Armando served as administrator and head of security for the Hackers Center Research Group and IT Security Services Manager for the Italian Security Brigade. Armando's has extensive experience and expertise in the areas of network security, secure coding and design, Web application security, penetration testing and security awareness.
	Dinesh O Bareja. Founder, Honey Net India Chapter Dinesh Bareja, VP and Practice Head (Information Security) with Grid Infocom , has over 23 years work and business experience across varied domains and has been in the technology domain since the past 15 years. He has worked overseas and in India in the Information Security domain in senior consulting positions providing a broad range of functional, tactical and strategic security services. His experience covers business and technology processes in commercial, operational, project management roles on multiple large and small projects in global and domestic markets. It includes planning and implementations of standards and frameworks like ISO27001, CobiT and services for Risk Management, Forensics, VA/PT, and Application Security etc
	Peter Giannoulis. Founder, Source 44 Consulting Peter is the Founder of Source 44 Consulting, an information security consulting firm based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Over the past 13 years Peter has been involved in the design and implementation of client defenses using many different security technologies. He is also skilled in vulnerability and penetration testing having taken part in hundreds of assessments. Peter spent many years involved with SANS and GIAC as an Authorized Grader for the GSEC certification, courseware author, exam developer, Advisory Board member, Stay Sharp instructor and Technical Director for the GIAC family of certifications. Peter's current certifications include: GSEC, GCIH, GCIA, GCFA, GCFW, GREM, GSNA, CISSP, CCSI, INFOSEC, CCSP, & MCSE.
	Simon Bennetts, OWASP Zed Attack Proxy project Simon Bennetts started the OWASP Zed Attack Proxy project, and leads the international group of volunteers who develop it. He is also one of the founders of the OWASP Manchester chapter and the OWASP Data Exchange Format project. In his day job he works for Sage UK Ltd as a Team Leader for both a development and a security team. His day to day work includes designing and building web applications, performing security assessments and delivering security training.
	Vahan Markarov Yerevan, Armenia Vahan Markarov is researcher and lecturer in the fields of information security and software development. His research interests and areas of expertise include cryptography, steganography, software design and testing, biometrics and computer networks. Since 2001 he presented over dozen scientific articles on different international and local conferences (SAM 09 at WORLDCOMP 09, CSIT 2009, WAITCS2010) and published instructional materials on the subjects of his interests. He received PhD in computer science from State Engineering University of Armenia (SEUA), Yerevan, Armenia in 2003. He is associate professor at the SEUA and giving lectures in the department of Information Security and Software Development on the faculty of Computer Systems and Informatics.

Submission Guidelines

Email Body

Personal Information

• Speaker Name:
• Job Role/Handle:
• Company/Organization:
• Country:
• Email ID:
• Contact Number:
• Speaker Profile: (max 1000 words)

• If there is additional speaker please mention it here following the above format.

Presentation Details

• Name/Title of the presentation:
• Paper Abstract: (max 3000 words)
• Presentation Time Required (20, 30, 50 Minutes)
• Is there any demonstration? Yes or No
• Are you releasing any new tool? Yes or No
• Are you releasing any new exploit? Yes or No

Other Needs & Requirements:

• Do you need any special equipment?
• We will be providing 1 LCD projector feed, 2 screens, microphones, wired and/or wireless Internet.
• If you have any other requirement, Please mention it here and the reason.

Remember these Dates!

• CFP Opens: 16th Mar 2012
• CFP Closing Date: 30th Apr 2012 - Extended to 15th May 2012
• Speakers list online: 21th May 2012 - Extended to 31st May 2012
• Workshop Dates: 02nd Aug 2012
• Conference Dates: 03rd and 4th Aug 2012

Speaker Benefits:

• Complimentary Conference registration.
• Complementary Accommodation for 2 nights.
• Complementary conference passes.
• Invitation to c0c0n-Blast (The Networking Lungi party).
• Travel Reimbursement - The selected speaker will receive travel reimbursement, to the extent available with existing ISRA /conference funds.
• Only one speaker will be eligible for the benefits in case there are two or more speakers for a talk.