Pre-ICIS SIGSEC Workshop on Information Security and Privacy (WISP)

The AIS Special Interest Group on Information Security and Privacy (SIGSEC) is pleased to announce its fourth annual Workshop on Information Security and Privacy (WISP) to be held pre-ICIS on Monday, December 14, 2009 in Phoenix, Arizona (USA). This workshop is intended to be a forum for scholars, practitioners, and doctoral students interested in information security and privacy to exchange ideas and encourage collaboration among the members of the SIGSEC community and others. We invite individuals to submit research articles, case studies, position papers, research-in-progress, and panel discussion proposals that address all interesting aspects of information security and assurance, including but not limited to:

-Socio-technical analysis of information security and privacy issues

-Cultural issues in management of information security and privacy

-IT risk analysis and management issues

-Economic analysis of information security strategies and privacy measures

-Behavioral and cognitive research into security technology acceptance and use

-Compliance with information security and privacy policies, procedures, and regulations

-Strategies for decreasing risky habits and behaviors

-Analysis of system vulnerabilities and risk exposure

-Protection of organizational knowledge and proprietary data

-Ensuring efficacy of operations for high integrity

-Management of electronic espionage and technological crime

-Cases in infrastructure protection

-Forensic analysis issues

-Legal, societal, and ethical issues in high technology crime

-Issues of information security and privacy in e-government technologies

-Issues of information security and privacy issues in online communities

-Simulation of information security and risk management

All submitted papers undergo a double blind peer review process. Selected papers will be fast tracked to Journal of Information System Security. Please submit your papers using our conference submission system located at http://www.security-conference.org/sigsec/ .

All submission should use Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF format only, with no author names or other identification in the manuscript file, including document properties and tracked changes (blind the submission, please). Please use MISQ style for your paper and references. Please limit your completed research and case study papers to 12 pages and research-in-progress papers to 6 pages, single-spaced with 12-point Times New Roman font.

Important Dates:

Submission deadline: October 2, 2010

Notification of acceptance:October 30, 2010

Revised, formatted document due:November 14, 2010

Workshop date:December 10, 2010

Workshop Sponsors

AIS Special Interest Group on Information Security and Privacy (SIGSEC)

Journal of Information System Security