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South African Information Security
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Twelfth Annual IFIP Workshop on Information Security Management

Information security is a significant concern for many organizations Effective approaches to information security management, such as policies and certifications, are consequently essential, and must be supported by a range of technical and human-centric measures.

The 12th Annual Workshop on Information Security Management, organized by IFIP TC-11 Working Group 11.1 (Information Security Management), invites you to contribute to the next Workshop by submitting a paper for presentation or proposals for panel discussions and tutorials. Contributions can either be of practical, industry-focused nature or reports on academic activities.

Themes

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Formulating effective information security policies
  • Establishing and maintaining security culture
  • Security governance and compliance
  • Strategies for managing security in SME environments
  • Methodologies and techniques for certification and accreditation
  • Standards for information security management
  • Managing technology and people
  • Organizing and assigning responsibility for security
  • Outsourcing information security
  • Risk assessment
  • Measurement of security
  • Requirements for awareness, training and education.
  • Evaluation of information security in companies
  • Information security surveys and case studies

Paper submission, review and publication

Authors are invited to submit full papers, not exceeding ten pages (including all figures, tables and references) by 5th February 2010. A comprehensive set of instructions for preparing camera ready papers can be found here, an example paper (annotated with style names) is available here and the Word format template is also available. Please refer to this before submission. Authors are strongly encouraged to use the Word template for ease of paper formatting.

Papers can be submitted to the conference paper management system here.

All papers will be double-blind reviewed by at least two members of the Programme Committee. All accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings.

Important Dates

  • 20 February 2010
Deadline for submission of papers
 
  • 22 March 2010
Notification of paper acceptance
  • 5 April 2010
Deadline of camera-ready paper submission
  • 5 April 2010
Deadline for author registration

International Programme Committee

Helen Armstrong (Curtin University, Australia)
Mukhopadhyay Arunabha (Indian Institute of Management Lucknow, India)
Andrzej Bialas (Centrum EMAG, Katowice, Poland)
Wolfgang Boehmer (University of Technology Darmstadt, Germany)
Reinhardt Botha (Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa)
Jemy Cano (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia)
Nathan Clarke (University of Plymouth, United Kingdom)
Gurpreet Dhillon (Virginia Commonwealth University, United States of America)
Neil Doherty (Loughborough University, United Kingdom)
Paul Dowland (University of Plymouth, United Kingdom)
Jean-Noel Ezingeard (Kingston University, United Kingdom)
Stefan Fenz (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
Steven Furnell (University of Plymouth, United Kingdom)
Brahim Hamid (IRIT, University of Toulouse, France)
Karin Hedström (Swedish Business School, Örebro University, Sweden)
Stefan Jakoubi (Secure Business Austria, Austria)
Lech Janczewski (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Murray Jennex (San Diego State University, United States of America)
Jorma Kajava (University of Lapland, Finland)
Sharman Lichtenstein (Deakin University, Australia)
Sean Maynard (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Dimitrios Michalopoulos (University of Plymouth, United Kingdom)
Maria Papadaki (University of Plymouth, United Kingdom)
Malcolm Pattinson (University of South Australia, Australia)
Jorge A. Ruiz-Vanoye (Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, Mexico)
Henrique Santos (University of Minho, Portugal)
Reijo Savola (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland)
Vinoth Sivasubramanian (Indian Institue of Technology, Mumbai, India)
Rossouw von Solms (Port Elizabeth Technikon, South Africa)
Gurvirender Tejay (Nova Southeastern University, United States of America)
Stephanie Teufel (University of Fribourg/iimt, Switzerland)
Kerry-Lynn Thomson (Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa)
Simon Tjoa (Secure Business Austria, Austria)
Teemupekka Virtanen (Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, Finland)
Matthew Warren (Deakin University, Australia)
Timo Wiander (University of Oulu, Finland)
Omar Zakaria (University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
Dan Zhu (Iowa State Univesity, United States of America)
Albin Zuccato (TeliaSonera, Sweden)