CFP for special security section of Communications of the ACM

["Wall, Kevin" <Kevin.Wall () QWEST COM>]

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

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                           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

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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