The 21st Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Working Conference on Data and
Applications Security will take place this year from July 8-11, 2007 in the
beautiful setting of Redondo Beach Marina, California, USA.

The conference provides a forum for presenting original
unpublished research results, practical experiences, and innovative
ideas in data and applications security.

The conference is limited to about forty participants so that ample
time is provided for discussion and interaction. Proceedings will be
published by Springer as the next volume in the Research Advances in
Database and Information Systems Security series.

Papers may present theory, technique, applications, or practical
experience on topics of interest to IFIP WG 11.3:

* Access Control
* Secure transaction processing
* Applied Cryptography
* Secure information integration
* Identity theft and countermeasures
* Secure sensor monitoring
* Integrity maintenance
* Security assessment methodologies
* Intrusion detection
* Secure Semantic Web
* Knowledge discovery and privacy
* Secure Web Services
* Organization security
* Threats and vulnerabilities
* Privacy
* Trust management


Additional topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
Critical Infrastructure Protection, Cyber Terrorism, Information
Warfare, Database Forensics, Electronic Commerce Security, and Digital
Health Care Security.

IMPORTANT DATES:
Paper Submission due:      March 2nd, 2007
Acceptance Notification:   April 6th, 2007
Final papers due:          May 4th, 2007

General Chair:
Sharad Mehrotra,
Computer Science Department,
University of California, Irvine, U.S.A.

Program Chairs:
Steve Barker,
King's College, London University, U.K.
Gail-Joon Ahn,
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, U.S.A.

For further information, and to submit a paper, please visit the
conference website:
http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/staff/steve/ifip07/index.html