Holleran@DOCKMASTER.ARPA (Jack Holleran) (12/23/89)
CALL FOR PAPERS:
13th NATIONAL COMPUTER SECURITY CONFERENCE
Sponsored by
the National Computer Security Center
and
the National Institute of Standards and Technology
Theme: Information Systems Security: Standards - The Key to the Future
Date: OCTOBER 1-4, 1990
Location: WASHINGTON, D.C.
This conference provides a forum for the Government and the private sector to
share current information that is useful and of general interest to the
conference participants on technologies, present and future, that are designed
to meet the ever-growing challenge of telecommunications and automated
information systems security. The conference will offer multiple tracks for
the needs of users, vendors, and the research and development communities.
The focus of the conference will be on: Systems Application Guidance,
Awareness, Training, and Education, Ethics and Issues, Evaluation and
Certification, Innovations and New Products, Management and Administration,
and Disaster Prevention and Recovery. We encourage submission of papers on
the following topics of high interest:
Systems Application Guidance
- Access Control Strategies
- Achieving Network Security
- Building on Trusted Computing Bases
- Integrating INFOSEC into Systems
- Preparing Security Plans
- Secure Architectures
- Securing Heterogeneous Networks
- Small Systems Security
Innovations and New Products
- Approved/Endorsed Products
- Audit Reduction Tools and Techniques
- Biometric Authentication
- Data Base Security
- Personal Identification and Authentication
- Smart Card Applications
- Tools and Technology
Awareness, Training and Education
- Building Security Awareness
- Compusec Training: Curricula, Effectiveness, Media
- Curriculum for Differing Levels of Users
- Keeping Security In Step With Technology
- Policies, Standards, and Guidelines
- Understanding the Threat
Evaluation and Certification
- Assurance and Analytic Techniques
- Conducting Security Evaluations
- Covert Channel Analysis
- Experiences in Applying Verification
- Formal Policy Models
- Techniques
Management and Administration
- Accrediting Information Systems and Networks
- Defining and Specifying Computer Security Requirements
- Life Cycle Management
- Managing Risk
- Role of Standards
- Security Requirements
Disaster Prevention and Recovery
- Assurance of Service
- Computer Viruses
- Contingency Planning
- Disaster Recovery
- Malicious Code
- Survivability
Ethics and Issues
- Computer Abuse/Misuse
- Ethics in the Workplace
- Individual Rights
- Laws
- Relationship of Ethics to Technology
- Standards of Ethics in Information Technology
BY FEBRUARY 16, 1990: Send eight copies of your draft paper* or panel
suggestions to one of the following addresses. Include the topical category
of your submission, author name(s), address, and telephone number on the cover
sheet only.
1. FOR PAPERS SENT VIA National Computer Security Conference
U.S. or Foreign ATTN: NCS Conference Secretary
Government MAIL National Computer Security Center
ONLY: Fort George G. Meade, MD 20755-6000
2. FOR PAPERS SENT VIA National Computer Security Conference
COMMERCIAL COURIER c/o NCS Conference Secretary
SERVICES (e.g.-FEDERAL National Computer Security Center
EXPRESS, EMERY, UPS, 911 Elkridge Landing Road
etc.): Linthicum, MD 21090
3. FOR Electronic Mail: NCS_Conference@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL (1 copy)
BY MAY 4, 1990: Speakers selected to participate in the conference will be
notified.
BY JUNE 22, 1990: Final, camera-ready papers are due.
* Government employees or those under Government sponsorship must so identify
their papers.
For additional information on submissions, please call (301) 850-0272.
To assist the Technical Review Committee, the following is required for
all submissions:
Page 1: Title of paper or submission
Topical Category & keywords
Author(s)
Organization(s)
Phone number(s)
Net address(es), if available
Point of Contact
Additionally, submissions sponsored by the U.S. Government must provide
the following information:
U.S. Government Program Sponsor or Procuring Element
Contract number (if applicable)
U.S. Government Publication Release Authority
(Note: Responsibility for U.S. Government
pre-publication review lies with the author(s).)
Page 2: Title of the paper or submission
-last abstract
The paper (Suggested length: 6 pages, double columns)
A Technical Review Committee, composed of U.S. Government and Industry
Computer Security experts, will referee submissions only for technical merit
for publication and presentation at the National Computer Security (NCS)
Conference. No classified submissions will be accepted for review.
Papers drafted as part of the author's official U.S. Government duties
may not be subject to copyright. Papers submitted that are subject to
copyright must be accompanied by a written assignment to the NCS Conference
Committee or written authorization to publish and release the paper at the
Committee's discretion. Papers selected for presentation at the NCS
Conference requiring U.S. Government pre-publication review must include,
with the submission of the final paper no later than June 22, 1990 to the
committee, a written release from the U.S. Government Department or Agency
responsible for pre-publication review. Failure to comply may result in
rescinding selection for publication and for presentation at the 13th NCS
Conference.
Technical questions can be addressed to the NCS Conference Committee
through the following means:
Phone: (301) 850-0CSC [0272]
Electronic Mail: NCS_Conference@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL
Government Mail: National Computer Security Conference
National Computer Security Center
Fort George G. Meade, MD 20755-6000
Commercial Carriers: National Computer Security Conference
c/o NCS Conference Secretary
National Computer Security Center
911 Elkridge Landing Road
Linthicum, MD 21090