IFIP TC-11 WG 11.1 & WG 11.8 Joint Workshop as part of Sec2006

May 22, 2006 Karlstad, Sweden

As numerous surveys continue to suggest that people's attitudes and awareness of security issues are amongst the most significant contributors to security incidents, it is evermore apparent that security can only be effective if staff know, understand, and accept the necessary precautions. This highlights the need to foster a security culture, in which users are aware of the security issues that pertain to them, and have the required knowledge and skills to act appropriately. An effective security culture represents one of the necessary foundations for information security management, and cannot be achieved without appropriate attention to security awareness, training and education for staff. With these perspectives in mind, IFIP Working Groups 11.1 (Information Security Management) and 11.8 (Security Education) wish to solicit papers for a special workshop session, to be held during the IFIP SEC 2006 conference (www.sec2006.org). Papers should describe original ideas, research or practical experiences related to the subject of security culture. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

• approaches to raising staff awareness
• monitoring and managing staff compliance
• case studies and practical experience reports
• development and promotion of security policy
• establishing staff as stakeholders in security
• security culture in a wider cultural context

Instructions for authors

Authors are asked to submit full papers, not exceeding six pages, written in English and formatted in accordance with the instructions for the main SEC 2006 event. Submitted papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted to another conference or journal for consideration of publication. Papers must be submitted in electronic form through the web. The web site for the electronic submission and author instructions can be accessed via www.sec2006.org

Accepted papers will be presented during a special themed session within the SEC 2006 conference, and will be published in the proceedings of the event by the official IFIP publisher Springer Science and Business Media. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register with the workshop and present the paper.

Important dates

Submission of papers: November 1, 2005
Notification to authors: January 15, 2006
Camera-ready copies: February 5, 2006

For further information, contact the workshop chairs:

Dr Steven Furnell, chair WG11.1 (steven.furnell@plymouth.ac.uk), or
Colonel Daniel Ragsdale, chair WG11.8 (daniel.ragsdale@usma.edu)