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CFP for special security section of Communications of the ACM
From: "Wall, Kevin" <Kevin.Wall () QWEST COM>
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 17:53:01 -0400
My appologies for this late notice. This call for papers went out awhile ago on some mailing lists and news groups, but a colleague of mine suggested some of you readers might be interested in responding as well. I you are interested but don't think that you can meet the deadline for abstracts (see CFP, below), then please contact Imran Bashir <mailto:ibashir () acm org>, who is to be the guest editor. Thanks for your interest! -kevin wall =================================================================== Call for Papers --------------- We seek articles for a special section of the Communications of the ACM on the security of inter-, intra-, and extranet software applications. This special section will be published as part of the February 2001 issue of the CACM. The ubiquitous World Wide Web, the fastest growing element of the Internet provides a perfect shooting target for the computer crackers, script kiddies, and other such "bad guys". Since WWW is being utilized equally by small and large corporations, and by governments, for conducting their business electronically, people with malicious intent do not have to leave their home to bring a business to its knees. Contrary to the traditional model of distributing a software application to a known set of "customers", today's web software model exposes a software application to everyone alike. Any potential security holes in the software can be exploited to cause various kinds of damage. Similarly, the inherent nature of the internet environment is conducive to the privacy invasion of individuals. Others questions have been raised about the freedom of speech, and of anonymous speech, on the internet. The goal of this special section is to expose the software engineering industry to the threats facing them in the development and deployment of web-based software applications, and to expose the challenges of the liberty-protecting software while maintaining the civil liberty rights. We seek articles of varying length, where short articles/experience reports could be as short as 2000 words, and other articles could be longer but not exceeding 4000 words. We especially seek experience reports that address a wide range of issues and ongoing developments in the web security, privacy, freedom of speech, including, but not limited to: - Securing Web/Application servers and their applications - Security of the E-Commerce software applications - Testing of the security aspect of web-based software - Security pitfalls of programming languages - Evaluation of existing security models - Security architectures for the web-based software - Protection of civil liberty rights on the web - Privacy, freedom of speech, and the internet The authors must adhere to the standards set out by CACM; the standards can be viewed by visiting: http://www.acm.org/cacm/Authors.html The article will be reviewed and authors will be informed of the final selection. Submission deadlines are as follows: Abstract (1-2 pages) due: Aug 15, 2000 Full Papers Due: Aug 25, 2000 Acceptance Notification: September 4, 2000 Revision requests: September 11, 2000 Revised copies due: September 25, 2000 Send electronic submissions to Imran Bashir ibashir () acm org --- Kevin W. Wall Qwest Communications International, Inc. Kevin.Wall () qwest com Phone: 614.932.5542 "Microsoft set the security state-of-the-art back 25 years with DOS, and they have continued that legacy to this day." -- Bruce Schneier, CRYPTO-GRAM, 6/15/99
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