CALL FOR  PAPERS

AusCERT2008  Conference:
SETMAPE

“Science, Engineering, Technology,
Mathematics, Policy and Education”
Stream

Tuesday 20 May 2008.
Crowne Plaza Royal Pines Resort
Gold Coast,  Queensland.   Australia.

NEW  CLOSING  DATE  FOR  PAPER  SUBMISSION: 5.00PM  Monday  5 May 2008.

The SETMAPE Stream at AusCERT2008

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Professional and managerial practice in all aspects of information security and assurance is underpinned by some basic propositions of integrity, confidentiality, availability, trust, recovery and the like. These propositions are themselves governed by the scientific, engineering, technological, mathematical, policy and education fundamentals that build that required trust and confidence in global information systems. However, this must be set against a thorough understanding of the risks involved involving the combination of vulnerabilities, threats and perceived consequences of system failure for whatever reason.  This stream augments the broad themes of AusCERT by making a place for exposition of underlying research and development activities in the area and builds upon the success of previous research oriented streams at the AusCERT conferences.

The basic aspects of overall information system assurance are continuously improved and clarified through all aspects of research and development activity, ranging from analysis of the most fundamental aspects of mathematical cryptology to the construction and testing of secure computer systems and vulnerability identification to the creation and analysis of vital information security policy and human factor analysis. Coupled with all this is, of course, the need to better understand how such R&D can best be used for the betterment of assurance in critical information systems through advances in the development and practice of education and training in the area as well as in public policy development and legal practice.

The SETMAPE stream at AusCERT aims at bringing together researchers and developers with those involved in the practical day-to-day aspects of managing the security of real information systems in both the public and private sectors. It is an opportunity for practitioners to offer feedback to the R&D community, to expound on the needs in the real world and, in turn, to for academic and industry researchers and teachers to relate R&D to actual requirements and management realities. 

Papers in the SETMAPE stream are particularly aimed at explaining research and development efforts with an emphasis on associated results and their implications. 

SETMAPE Time and Location
The 2008 AusCERT conference will take place from:
Sunday 18th to Friday 23rd May 2008 at the
Crowne Plaza Royal Pines Resort, Gold Coast, Australia.
The SETMAPE stream of the conference will be held on Tuesday 20 May 2008 at the conference venue which is detailed on the main AusCERT 2008 conference website.

Thus papers and presentations based on research, development, policy and education/training aspects of the broader topics to be covered in the main conference are sought. These topics can be viewed at the AusCERT 2008 main website at URL http://conference.auscert.org.au/conf2008/  In addition to those topics the following areas may also be covered:

• Protecting the national information infrastructure: policy and process research
• Politics of information security
• Research into legal aspects of information systems security, including “e-discovery”, liability, etc.
• Employee attitudes and responses to information systems security
• Advances in automation of risk assessment and management methodologies
• Use and integration of encryption technologies, as well as security of these sub-systems, including use of the “trusted platform module (TPM)”     
• Network security protocols and their evaluation
• Security in a “Web 2.0” application development and deployment environment
• Malware detection and eradication at the hardware, OS kernel, device driver and other levels
• New paradigms in access control for the network, operating system, database and application
• Security of SCADA/DCS systems
• Security in specific systems environments, including Microsoft Windows and LINUX
• Database management system security
• Security in a Wireless Environment
• Information security education and training
• Security in the e-health environment
• Trusted systems research and development, including SELinux, etc.
• Reverse engineering for information security and cryptographic subsystem assessment

Publication of Papers:
For those wishing to submit papers it should be noted that all papers will be blind refereed by an expert program committee and selected papers will be published in the formal proceedings of the stream which will be in electronic format only.
(For Australian academic authors this should mean that papers will normally fit under the E1 category for research credit purposes.)

Deadlines:
Draft papers must be forwarded to the AusCERT secretariat by 17.00hrs (5.00pm) on monday 5 May 2008.  Authors of successful papers will be notified within 4 days as to the acceptance of a submitted paper.  Final papers, with any corrections, are then due 7 days from that date.

Submission Details:
Send to address:
Papers should be electronically submitted in any reasonable format by email to:
Emeritus Prof William J Caelli, AO
Chair – Programme Committee

at the following address: 

setmape08@auscert.org.au

or via the main AusCERT 2008 conference website at the following URL:
http://conference.auscert.org.au/conf2008/SETMAPE-CFP

Paper Formats:

• File formats may include Adobe Acrobat “.pdf”, Microsoft Word “.doc”, Standardised “.rtf”, Postscript “.ps”, Open Document Format “.odf”, ASCII text “.txt”, Hypertext “.html” or any reasonable other format, with details to be supplied.
• Paper size should be set to standard A4 size with 2.5cm (1 inch) margins all around and the type font should be set to 12 point.
• No size limit is set given that papers in various basic discipline areas vary widely in size, e.g. scientific and mathematical papers versus those from research activity in the legal and public policy areas. However, a strict time limit for presentation of the paper at the SETMAPE stream will apply.
• In order to allow for blind referring of papers please ensure that:
• The title of the paper,
• The names, affiliations and contact points for the authors
              are placed on a separate front page that may be removed.
• The paper title, abstract, keywords and the start of the main text should start on the second page.
• The usual formal requirements for paper layout as set out by the Australian Computer Society, IEEE or ACM for publication in their professional scientific/technological research archive publications should be followed. The appropriate details for the Australian Computer Society’s (ACS) “Journal of Research and Practice in Information Technology” are available at the following URL: http://www.acs.org.au/jrpit/JRPITAuthors.html

Attendance at the AusCERT 2008 Conference and Presentation of Papers:
It is expected that the author, or one of the authors, of the paper will attend at least the SETMAPE day of the AusCERT 2008 conference on the Gold Coast.  In this case a single day SETMAPE conference fee for the AusCERT 2008 conference will be waived for the presenting author.

Further Information:
If required, further information may be obtained from the AusCERT 2008 conference secretariat whose details are given on the main AusCERT website at URL:
http://conference.auscert.org.au/conf2008/

The SETMAPE Program Committee:

Chair:
Emeritus Professor William J (Bill) Caelli, AO
Director
International Information Security Consultants Pty Ltd,   and
Senior Research Scientist
Information Security Institute – Queensland University of Technology
Email:  w.caelli@iisec.com.au
Phone:  National 07 – 5502 2978       International: +61-7-5502 2978

Deputy Chair:
Professor Paul Bailes
Head, School of ITEE
The University of Queensland, Queensland.  Australia
Email: p.bailes@uq.edu.au

Members:

Dr Cristina Cifuentes
Sun Labs Down Under
The University of Queensland
Email: cristina.cifuentes@sun.com

Dr Guido Governatori
School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering
The University of Queensland
Email: guido@itee.uq.edu.au

Emeritus Professor Dennis Longley              
Director
International Information Security Consultants Pty Ltd., Queensland, Australia
Email:  d.longley@iisec.com.au

Dr Vallipuram Muthukkumarasamy
School of Information and Communication Technology
Griffith University Gold Coast Campus
Email: v.muthu@griffith.edu.au

Dr Juanma Gonzalez Nieto
Research Fellow – Information Security Institute and
Faculty of Information Technology,
Queensland University of Technology
Email: juanma@isrc.qut.edu.au

Dr Marius Portmann              
School of Information Technology & Electrical Engineering
The University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia         
Email: m.portmann@uq.edu.au

Professor Corey D. Schou
University Professor of Informatics
Idaho State University, Idaho.  USA.
Director, National Information Assurance Training and Education Center
Idaho. USA.

Mr Luke Wildman
System Safety and Quality Engineering Pty Ltd
Email: luke@ssqe.com.au

Further members to be announced soon.

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