17th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference
December 10-14, 2001
New Orleans, Louisiana
http://www.acsac.org/2001/cfp/

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
 
About the Conference

If you are developing practical solutions to problems relating to
protecting your commercial enterprise or country's information
infrastructure, consider submitting a paper to the Annual Computer
Security Applications Conference, to be held this December in New
Orleans Louisiana at the New Orleans Sheraton Hotel.

This internationally recognized conference provides a forum for
experts in information system security to exchange practical ideas
about solving these critical problems. We are looking for papers,
panels and tutorials that address:

Access control models and policies
Certification and accreditation/product evaluation
Cryptographic protocols and applied cryptography
Database Security
Electronic commerce security
Firewalls and other boundary control devices
Forensics
Middleware and distributed systems security
Modeling and simulation
Network security
Operating systems security
PKIs and certificate management
Risk/vulnerability assessment
Intrusion detection and security management
Survivability and denial of service protection
Security engineering
Security against malicious mobile code

Papers will be judged for best paper awards. A prize will be given for
Outstanding Conference Paper and the Best Student Paper. For the Best
Student Paper, expenses to attend the conference will also be
provided. Student authors should be sure to check the "Student paper"
box when you submit your paper to ensure that your paper is considered
for the Best Student Paper Award.

The conference solicits papers, panels, case studies presentations,
and tutorials that address practical approaches to solving these
problems in commercial environments, universities, federal, state and
local governments, and departments of defense. Selected papers will be
those that present examples of in-place or attempted solutions to real
problems, lessons learned, original research analyses, and approaches
to securing our information infrastructure.

Submission Instructions 
Details of topics of interest, as well as
submission procedures can be found on the individual web pages: 
Panels
Case studies 
presentations 
Tutorials (full and half day) 
Refereed papers Note: The submission deadline has been extended to June 5,
2001.

ACSAC does not accept "speaking proposals" in the form of a biography
and a one paragraph description of a topic. Depending on their
technical content, they may be acceptable as case studies. If a group
of related speakers are contemplated, they may be acceptable as a
panel or forum. If a full paper is available, they may be acceptable
as a technical paper. If a half day or full day seminar is
appropriate, they may be acceptable as tutorials.