26th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference ACSAC 26 6-10 December 2010 Four Seasons Hotel, Austin, Texas, USA http://www.acsac.org CALL FOR PARTICIPATION The 26th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) will be held the week of December 6-10, 2010, in Austin, Texas, USA. ACSAC is an internationally recognized forum where practitioners, researchers, and developers in information system security meet to learn and to exchange practical ideas and experiences. If you are developing, researching, or implementing practical solutions for protecting corporate or government information infrastructures, consider sharing your experience and expertise at this conference. We are looking for papers, panels, tutorials, posters, works-in-progress, case studies, and workshops that address such technologies, concerns, and issues as: o Access control and biometrics o Applied cryptography o Audit and audit reduction o Biometrics o Certification and accreditation o Cloud security o Database security o Denial of service protection o Digital policy o Distributed systems security o Electronic commerce security o Enterprise security management o Forensics o Identification and authentication o Identity and trust management o Incident response planning o Information survivability o Insider threat protection o Intellectual property rights o Intrusion detection o Mobile and wireless security o Multimedia security o Operating systems security o Peer-to-peer security o Privacy and data protection o Product evaluation/compliance o Risk/vulnerability assessment o Securing cloud infrastructures o Security engineering and management o Security in IT outsourcing o Service oriented architectures o Software assurance o Virtualization security o Web 2.0/3.0 security Important Dates: Due Date Notification Tutorials 14 June 2010 20 July 2010 Workshops 14 June 2010 20 July 2010 Papers 22 June 2010 16 August 2010 Case Studies 22 June 2010 16 August 2010 Panels 22 June 2010 16 August 2010 Posters 17 Sept 2010 15 October 2010 WiPs 17 Sept 2010 15 October 2010 Come join us in Austin for the 26th ACSAC! Organizers General Chair: Carrie Gates, CA Labs Program Chair: Michael Franz, UC Irvine Program Co-Chair: John McDermott, Naval Research Lab ACSAC offers conferenceships for students who otherwise would not be able to attend the conference. The conferenceship covers hotel, registration and a cash award to help defray the costs with transportation and food. Students should contact the ACSAC student award chair if interested in a conferenceship. ACSAC is sponsored by Applied Computer Security Associates (ACSA), a group of professionals who are working to facilitate information sharing among colleagues. We're an all-volunteer not-for-profit organization. Our postal address is 2906 Covington Road, Silver Spring, MD 20910-1206. You can help ACSAC reach people who might benefit from this information. Feel free to forward this message with a personal note to your friends and colleagues.