Security is an important issue in the research of networks and distributed systems, ranging from the traditional computer networks to newly proliferated areas like sensor networks, P2P systems, and ubiquitous computing. The security threats exploited the weakness of protocols as well as operating systems, and also extended to attack Internet applications such as database systems and web servers. The attacks, including Distributed Deny of Service, Virus, Buffer Overflows and Worms, are causing more economic damages and arouse more attentions. To achieve a secured distributed system, the cybersecurity aspects, namely, data confidentiality, authentication, nonrepudiation, data integrity, privacy, access control and availability, should be fully attained. 

This workshop provides a forum for academic and industry professionals to discuss recent progress in the area of network and distributed system security, and includes studies on security attacks that occur in today's networks, security mechanisms that are designed to detect, prevent, or recover from a security attack and security services that are available to enhance system security.

Distributed digital signatures 
Distributed denial of service attacks 
Distributed intrusion detection and protection systems 
Distributed access control and firewalls
Security in e-commerce and e-business and other applications
Security in P2P networks and Grid computing
Security in mobile and pervasive computing 
Security architectures in distributed and parallel systems 
Security theory and tools in distributed and parallel systems 
Ad hoc and sensor network security 
Buffer overflows
Cryptographic algorithms
Data privacy and trustiness
Information hiding and multimedia watermarking in distributed systems 
Key management and authentication
Mobile codes security 
Network security issues and protocols 
Software security 
World Wide Web Security