Call for papers Closed

Academic Research and Development call for papers submission deadline ends on the 27th February 2004.

Call for Papers and Tutorials

At the request of previous conference delegates, the AusCERT2004 programme committee has decided to include some positions on the programme for speakers accepted through a "Call for Papers and Tutorials". Accepted papers may be included in the Business, Technical or Tutorial streams.

This call for papers is open to experts who believe they would have a quality paper for the AusCERT2004 Conference fitting the theme of "Computer Security - are we there yet?".

Note that this is not an academic refereed call for papers. A separate refereed stream for research and development is available for this purpose and a call for papers is being held separately for this stream. Please refer to the refereed call for papers for further details.

About AusCERT

AusCERT is the national Computer Emergency Response Team for Australia (www.auscert.org.au), similar to the role CERT/CC plays in the US. We are a not-for-profit organisation based out of The University of Queensland (www.uq.edu.au). Two years ago we saw the need for an international security conference focused on both technical and business security issues which corporations, governments and CERTs face.

About the Conference

In Australia, the AusCERT conference has proven to be the premier IT security event for IT security professionals and anyone with an interest in IT security. This is the third year we have been running this conference and interest in the conference from delegates, speakers and sponsors has grown accordingly. In 2003, 520 delegates attended and we expect at least the same if not more for AusCERT2004. As before, we also expect to attract delegates from organisations worldwide.

For information about our two previous conferences please refer to:

Paper Submission:

The programme committee welcomes original contributions not previously published nor submitted in parallel for publication to any other conference or workshop on the following topics:

• Designing, developing and monitoring an enterprise computer/network security team
• Security Policies
• Security issues in e-commerce
• Risk Management/Assessment
• Legal Issues (such as privacy, monitoring, etc)
• Business Continuity
• Security Audits
• Security Standards - Implementing and using security standards on an enterprise scale
• Hacker profile
• Case Studies
• Biometrics and security
• Critical Infrastructure Protection

• Distributed Intrusion Detection on large scale networks
• Monitoring and Log Analysis
• Computer Network Attacks
• Vulnerability research in:
  • open source software
  • responses to vulnerabilities in the source code
• Securing and hardening Operating Systems and Networks
• Antivirus developments and techniques
• Anti-spam developments and techniques
• Case Studies
  • Computer/Network Forensics
  • Network monitoring
  • Honeynet
  • Spam

Papers promoting vendor specific products or services will not be considered nor accepted.

All presentations and tutorial submissions will be handled electronically. Authors should email their paper and the completed submission form to:

Papers summary should be of a maximum of 2 pages - typeset in a 12-point font. Submissions will only be considered if they provide a clear idea of the presentation content, key points to be covered during the presentation and are followed by the powerpoint presentation at a later date.

Papers summary should be submitted in text, PDF or html formats.

Submissions will be accepted from now on until the deadline listed below.

Presentation requirements:

Presentations run for 40 minutes, however, we would recommend a 30-35 minute presentation to allow time for questions.

Tutorials may be half or full day in length and can cover topics either at business or technical levels.

Speaking Requirements:

Note that if your presentation is selected you must comply with the following:

1. I will present the powerpoint slides by the dates listed on the 'call for papers and tutorials' document.
2. If I fail to present the power point slides by the dates listed on the 'call for papers and tutorials' I understand that the conference programme committee may decide to replace my presentation by an alternate presentation.
3. If for any reason I cannot present I'll inform the conference programme committee or the conference organisers listed at the conference web site before the conference starts.

Copyright:

AusCERT2004 requires a non-exclusive copyright license for all the papers presented at the conference and for the presentation material. This includes potential distribution on a conference CD and/or the conference website.

Important Dates:

Paper Selection:

The AusCERT2004 Programme Committee will select all topics and speakers on an independent basis based on the quality of papers and the conference theme.

Acceptance of the papers is at the discretion of the Programme Committee which has the right to refuse all papers. The Programme Committee's decisions are final.