SACMAT

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the ï18th ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT 2013). This year's symposium continues its tradition of being the premier forum for presentation of research results on leading edge issues of access control, including models, systems, applications, and theory.

62 papers have been submitted from a variety of countries around the world. Submissions were anonymous; each paper has been reviewed by at least three reviewers who are experts in the field. Extensive online discussions took place to make the selections for the symposium. The program committee finally accepted 19 papers that cover a variety of topics, including Privacy & Compliance, Policy Management & Enforcement, Systems & Information Flow, Policy Analysis, and Applications. The program again contains two demo sessions with 8 demos covering topics such as secure benchmarking in the cloud, sticky policies for mobile devices or secure Big Data Analytics. In addition, the program includes a panel on the granularity of access control models and their effect on policies, management and lifecycle as well as two keynote talks by Dr. Florian Kerschbaum and Prof. Dr. Ahmad Reza-Sadeghi. We hope that these proceedings will serve as a valuable reference for security researchers and developers.