Enhancing Fault / Intrusion Tolerance through Design and Configuration Diversity
Alysson N. Bessani, Alessandro Daidone, Ilir Gashi, Rafael R. Obelheiro, Paulo Sousa, Vladimir Stankovic
In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Recent Advances on Intrusion-Tolerant Systems (WRAITS 2009), Estoril, Portugal, June 2009.

DSN 2009: 39th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, June 29 – July 2, 2009.

Summary:

DSN is the chosen forum for researchers around the world, for presenting the very best research results, solutions to problems, and insight into emergent new challenges. DSN has pioneered the fusion between security and dependability, understanding the need to simultaneously fight against cyber attacks, accidental faults, design errors, and unexpected operating conditions.

Designing Modular and Redundant Cyber Architectures for Process Control: Lessons learned
Paulo Veríssimo, Alysson Neves Bessani, Miguel Correia, Nuno Ferreira Neves, Paulo Sousa
Proceedings of the 42nd Hawaii International Conference for the Systems Sciences (HICSS-42), Waikoloa, Hawaii, January 2009. (best paper nomination)

FOREVER: Fault/intrusiOn REmoVal through Evolution & Recovery
Alysson Neves Bessani, Hans P. Reiser, Paulo Sousa, Ilir Gashi, Vladimir Stankovic, Tobias Distler, Rüdiger Kapitza, Alessandro Daidone, Rafael R. Obelheiro
In Middleware (Companion),  Leuven, Belgium, pages 99-101, December 2008.

IEEE Security & Privacy Nov/Dec 2008

The CRUTIAL Way of Critical Infrastructure Protection
Alysson Neves Bessani, Paulo Sousa, Miguel Correia, Nuno Ferreira Neves, Paulo Veríssimo
IEEE Security and Privacy, vol. 6, no. 6, pp. 44-51, Nov/Dec 2008.

On the Effects of Diversity on Intrusion Tolerance
Alysson Neves Bessani, Rafael Obelheiro, Paulo Sousa, Ilir Gashi
Submitted to publication.
Available as Technical Report DI/FCUL TR-08-30.

Towards Intrusion-Tolerant Process Control Software
Hugo Ortiz, Paulo Sousa, Paulo Veríssimo
In Proceedings of the 4th Portuguese National Conference of Informatics Security in Organizations (SINO 2008 ), Coimbra, Portugal, November 2008.

DSN’09 – International Conference on Distributed Systems and Networks
Estoril, Portugal, 29th June – 2nd July, 2009
http://www.dsn.org/

Important dates:

Workshop Proposals: October 13, 2008
Mandatory Paper Abstracts: December 8, 2008
Full Papers: December 15, 2008
Panel Proposals: December 15, 2008
Tutorial Proposals: January 12, 2009
Fast Abstracts & Student Forum: April 6, 2009

SINO 2008: 4th Portuguese National Conference of Informatics Security in Organizations, Nov 18-19, 2008.

Summary (in portuguese):

A Segurança Informática está na ordem do dia, no que diz respeito à segurança das organizações e indivíduos. Esta conferência constituirá uma excelente oportunidade de reflexão e discussão das diversas questões inerentes à segurança informática, quer na visão da investigação científica, quer como fórum de discussão envolvendo as empresas e instituições, para troca de experiências sobre aspectos teóricos e práticos bem como sobre projectos de I&D e experiências de adopção de diferentes tecnologias e práticas de segurança para sistemas computacionais.

O evento juntará, num fórum aberto de discussão e debate, diferentes especialistas, investigadores, consultores, administradores de sistemas, responsáveis pela segurança e outros representantes das empresas e das diversas instituições.

Winner of the IBM 2007 Scientific Award, with the work Security and Availability through Proactive Resilience (in portuguese). You can find some of the media coverage in here.