The conference seeks submissions from academia, industry, and government presenting novel research on all theoretical and practical aspects of computer security, as well as case studies and implementation experiences. Papers should have practical relevance to the construction, evaluation, application, or operation of secure systems. Theoretical papers must make convincing argument for the practical significance of the results. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

access control electronic frauds security management
accounting and audit identity management smartcards
anonymity information warfare commercial and industry security
applied cryptography intrusion detection data and application security
authentication key management inference/controlled disclosure
computer forensics law and ethics risk analysis and risk management
cryptographic protocols peer-to-peer security intellectual property protection
database security privacy-enhancing technology security in IT outsourcing
data protection secure location services security for mobile code
data/system integrity secure networking trust management
digital rights management security education trust models


Paper Submissions
Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers should be at most 15 pages including the bibliography and well-marked appendices (using 11-point font and reasonable margins on letter-size paper), and should be in single-column format. Committee members are not required to read the appendices, and so the paper should be intelligible without them. Submissions are to be made to the submission web site at http://sec2008.dti.unimi.it. Only pdf files will be accepted. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. Papers must be received by the deadline of January 10, 2008. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the conference.


General Chairs
Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati Giulio Occhini
Università degli Studi di Milano AICA, Italy

Program Chairs
Sushil Jajodia Pierangela Samarati
George Mason University, USA Università degli Studi di Milano

Publication Chair
Stelvio Cimato
Università degli Studi di Milano

Important Dates
Paper Submission due: January 10, 2008
Acceptance notification: March 23, 2008
Final papers due: April 18, 2008

Program Committee
Claudio Ardagna Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Vijay Atluri Rutgers University, USA
Tuomas Aura Microsoft Research, UK
Aditya Bagchi Indian Statistical Institute, India
Jan Camenisch IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland
Marco Casassa Mont HP Laboratories, UK
Yves Deswarte LAAS-CNRS, France
Bart DeDecker K.U.Leuven, Belgium
Kevin Du Syracuse University, USA
Jan Eloff University of Pretoria, South Africa
Simone Fischer-Huebner Karlstad University, Sweden
Steven Furnell University of Plymouth, UK
Sara Foresti Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Michael Gertz University of California at Davis, USA
Dimitris Gritzalis Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
Dieter Gollmann Technische Universität Hamburg, Germany
Le Gruenwald University of Oklahoma, USA
Yong Guan Iowa State University, USA
Jaap-Henk Hoepman Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands
Angelos Keromytis Columbia University, USA
Yongdae Kim University of Minnesota, USA
Peng Liu Pennsylvania State University, USA
Javier Lopez University of Malaga, Spain
Refik Molva Institut Eurécom, France
Yuko Murayama Iwate Prefectural University, Japan
Peng Ning North Carolina State University, USA
Stefano Paraboschi Università di Bergamo, Italy
Philippos Peleties Universal Bank Public Ltd, Cyprus
Günther Pernul University of Regensburg, Germany
Sihan Qing Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Kai Rannenberg Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Indrajit Ray Colorado State University, USA
Kent Seamons Brigham Young University, USA
Cristina Serban AT&T, USA
Stephanie Teufel University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Jozef Vyskoc VaF, Slovak Republic
LingYu Wang Concordia University, Canada
Sean Wang University of Vermont, USA
Tatjana Welzer University of Maribor, Slovenia
Louise Yngström SU/KTH, Sweden