<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">Colleagues:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">As
a fellow professor with a research interest in information security,
I’m sure you are as concerned as we are about identifying and defining
quality
venues for the publication of papers, articles and research pieces on
information security, computer security, digital forensics and software
assurance topics. While mainstream information systems and computer
science venues do publish in this area, there
are several quality journals and magazines dedicated specifically to
the field of information security.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">As
information security emerges as its own discipline, it becomes critical
to identify the best venues and recommend those to fellow faculty
members looking
for such outlets and recognition for merit, tenure and promotion. This
information could be combined with established ratings and rankings of
IS and CS journals to complete a faculty member’s portfolio and vitae.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">While a number of research papers have identified and evaluated IS and CS venues (such as AIS’s MIS Journal Rankings at
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which includes a study Dr. Whitman did previously on IS journals,
which was published in Information Systems Research), we have yet to
identify a similar study focused EXCLUSIVELY on information security
journals. As such, we have devised a survey of journals and magazines
that accept papers from academic authors, and need
your assistance in completing it.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">Our survey is located at
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">We've also created a Tiny URL version for ease of use:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">Please
share this email with any of your colleagues that are actively
researching and publishing in information security. If you wish to take
this survey,
but want to know what journals we are evaluating, you may download our
journal listing and URL document from
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">beforehand to facilitate survey completion. It should only take a few minutes of your time, and the results will help us all.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">Note: If you have previously completed this survey, there is no need to do so again.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">Thank you in advance for your assistance.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">Mike Whitman</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">Humayun Zafar</span></p>
<span style="color:black">Herb Mattord<br>
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