You are invited to contribute to the Handbook of Research on Information Assurance and Security that Professor Sushil Sharma and Professor Jeet Gupta are editing. This will be published by Idea Publishing Group. The purpose of this handbook is to help readers understand the need for enterprise security strategies, current security tools, procedures and processes, techniques and tools that are required to protect data and systems. An enterprise security handbook that includes methodologies, techniques and methods to protect data and systems would be a great contribution to practitioners as well as academicians. Academic, research oriented, expository, or practitioner oriented works are all welcome. Detailed Call for Contributions can be found as a pdf file on the website: http://cas.uah.edu/guptaj/cfchandbook.pdf The tentative schedule is as follows: Proposals due: 31 August 2006 Notification of proposal: 30 September 1 2006 Full paper due: 01 December 2006 Publication of Handbook: Spring 2008 Please submit your proposals via e-mail to Professor Sushil Sharma at SSHARMA@bsu.edu or to Jeet Gupta at guptaj@uah.edu latest by August 31, 2006. If there are any questions, please feel free to contact me.