The First International Workshop on Network & Communications Security (NCS 2009)
Co-located with Netcom 2009
December 27-29, Chennai , India

Due to increase in number of Internet applications & users, the security issues and pivotal challenges include integrity verification, authentication, and access control etc., are also increasing. The purpose of this workshop is to publish latest & high-quality research works on Computer Networks & Communications security for wired and wireless networks in theoretical and practical aspects. This workshop aims to promote state-of-the-art research in the area of computer Networks security.

Topics

Authors are solicited to contribute to the special issue by submitting articles that illustrate research results, projects, surveying works and industrial experiences that describe significant advances in the following areas, but are not limited to

Access control, Anonymity, Audit and audit reduction & Authentication and authorization
Applied cryptography, Cryptanalysis, Digital Signatures
Biometric security
Boundary control devices
Certification and accreditation
Cross-layer design for security
Security & Network Management
Data and system integrity, Database security
Defensive information warfare
Denial of service protection, Intrusion Detection, Anti-malware
Distributed systems security
Electronic commerce
E-mail security, Spam, Phishing, E-mail fraud, Virus, worms, Trojon Protection
Grid security
Information hiding and watermarking & Information survivability
Insider threat protection, Integrity
Intellectual property protection
Internet/Intranet Security
Key management and key recovery
Language-based security
Mobile and wireless security
Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Security
Monitoring and surveillance
Multimedia security ,Operating system security, Peer-to-peer security
Performance Evaluations of Protocols & Security Application
Privacy and data protection
Product evaluation criteria and compliance
Risk evaluation and security certification
Risk/vulnerability assessment
Security & Network Management
Security Models & protocols
Security threats & countermeasures (DDoS, MiM, Session Hijacking,Replay attack etc,)
Trusted computing
Ubiquitous Computing Security
Virtualization security, VoIP security, Web 2.0 security
Submission Procedures

Authors are invited to submit papers for the workshop through E-mail ncs@airccse.org or ncs.workshop@yahoo.com by June 10, 2008.
Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously or be under consideration for publication while being evaluated for this
workshop. The workshop proceeding will be published by IEEE CS series with main conference proceedings.

Selected papers from NCS 2009, after further revisions, will be published in an International Journal (pending).

Important Dates

Paper Submission Deadline
June 10, 2009

Authors Notification
August 20, 2009

Final Manuscript Due
September 20, 2009


For more details, please visit http://airccse.org/ncs/ncs2009.html