Message from the SDCS Chairs

elcome to SDCS 2005, the 2nd International Workshop on Security in Distributed Computing Systems. Cyber security is a research area of both theoretical and practical significance. In recent years, securing a large-scale networked system has become a great challenge. Interest has increased in the field of security of parallel and distributed systems, which include specification, analysis, and design of protocols, access control mechanisms, denial-of-service attacks, digital forensics, wireless and sensor network security, mobile code security, trust management, digital rights management, privacy and anonymity, modeling of information flow and its application to confidentiality policies, system composition, and covert channel analysis. The aim of this workshop is to provide a forum for continued activity in this area, to allow interaction of security researchers and developers with the Distribute Systems communities, and to give attendees of ICDCS 2005 an opportunity to network with experts in cyber security.