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Call for Papers - CISSE 2003

Cyber Security Strategy:
Meeting the Multinational Challenge
Through Education Training and Awareness

This colloquium, the seventh in an ongoing annual series, will bring together leading figures from academia, government, and industry to address the national need for security and assurance of our information and communications infrastructure. This goal requires both an information-literate work force that is aware of its vulnerability as well as a cadre of information professionals that are knowledgeable of the recognized "best practices" available in information security and information assurance.

Mission Statement

It is the task of American higher education to provide an information literate work force and to prepare information technology professionals. To meet this urgent need, higher education must be informed of the knowledge, skills and attitudes to be taught in the general curricula and in the information curricula of its colleges and universities. Industry and government must understand their role in supporting higher education, not simply expecting higher education to be responsive and informed about information security and assurance. The Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education (The Colloquium) is established to serve as a living body to bring government, industry, and academia together to meet those challenges.

The colloquium solicits papers from practitioners, students, educators, and researchers. The papers should discuss course or lab development, INFOSEC curricula, standards, best practices, existing or emerging programs, trends, and future vision, as well as related issues. We are especially interested in novel approaches to teaching information security as well as what should be taught. This includes the following general topics:

  • Assessment of need (e.g. how many information security workers/ researchers/ faculty are needed?)
  • Integrating information assurance topics in existing graduate or undergraduate curricula
  • Experiences with course or laboratory development
  • Alignment of curriculum with existing information assurance education standards
  • Emerging programs or centers in information assurance
  • Late breaking topics
  • Best practices
  • Vision for the future

We particularly encourage papers that discuss tools, demonstrations, case studies, course modules, shareware, and worked examples that participants (and others) can use to help educate people in computer security. Papers reporting work in progress are also welcomed, especially if enough information to evaluate the work will be available at the time of the colloquium.

Paper Selection Committee

  • Paper Track Chair: Matt Bishop, University of California at Davis
  • Paper Track Committee: TBA

Submissions

Papers on any of the above topics, or any others related to training and education in information security and assurance, are particularly welcome, other contributions are also of interest and are welcome. Each submission must contain a separate title page with:

  • The title or topic;
  • The name(s) of the authors, organizational affiliation(s), telephone and FAX numbers;
  • The presenter; a speaker must be identified and will be expected to register and attend the colloquium in order to present the paper;
  • The author to contact for correspondence about the paper;
  • The postal address and Internet electronic mail address of the corresponding author; and
  • A short abstract (at most 200 words).

If the paper is to be considered a student submission, please indicate this on the title page.

Student paper submissions are to be the work of the student author(s), and should not include any non-student co-authors. Students must be full-time enrollees in a bachelor s, master s, or doctoral program. Students expecting to complete their degree before the colloquium are eligible to submit their work as a student paper as long as the work is completed before their graduation date. Students submitting papers to the student track may be required to obtain a signature from their department or advisor indicating their student status upon paper acceptance.

The full paper should be no more than ten pages and formatted using a 12-point font and 1-inch (2.54-cm) margins. All submissions must be made electronically in ASCII, postscript, or PDF (PDF is preferred). All accepted papers will be made available on the web, and may not have been previously published, or be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere.

Please submit papers by electronic mail. The subject line should have the following format: [CISSE] Contact_Author Title

Please send submissions to ncisse@cs.ucdavis.edu. Each submission will be acknowledged by e-mail. If you have questions about submissions, or you do not receive an acknowledgment within seven days, please contact bishop@cs.ucdavis.edu.

Best Paper Awards

The best paper will be selected by the reviewers and announced at CISSE 2003.

Proceedings

All papers will be published in a proceedings after the colloquium.
The publications chair will contact the authors of accepted papers with details.
In order to facilitate this, the authors must grant a free and non-exclusive license to the Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education (CISSE) to publish the paper in the proceedings of the conference in any format deemed appropriate by the CISSE, including but not limited to printed book form, CD-ROM format, web site publication or other. Submission of a paper constitutes acceptance of this requirement.

Registration

The program committee will provide detailed registration information (including fees, suggested hotels, and travel directions) at the conference web site, http://www.ncisse.org.

Important Dates

  • Deadline for paper submission March 1, 2003
  • Notification of acceptance or rejection April 15, 2003
  • On a space available basis short pedagogic papers may be accepted through May 2, 2003 but these will not appear in the proceedings.

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