[AISWorld] AMCIS Minitrack on Software Assurance

[Conklin, Wm. Arthur]

Call for Papers
Americas Conference Information Systems
Detroit Michigan August 4-7, 2011

Description:
Information security has risen to become a major issue in today’s enterprise environment. Most of the issues being addressed in information security can trace at least one root cause to a vulnerability resulting from software that is not performing as intended. Secure software is software that is able to perform in a predictable manner even in a hostile environment. Secure software is designed to resist most attacks, and to tolerate attacks it cannot resist, and to recover quickly from attacks. Unfortunately most software is not secure and vulnerabilities plague most systems. A lot of industry led efforts have raised the bar in the area of software assurance. These efforts include Secure Development Lifecycles, tools such as Threat Modeling and Fuzzing, industry efforts such as SAFECode.
Significant research opportunities exist to address the myriad of issues associated with the production of secure code. This mini-track presents a venue for researchers to present new and novel methods of attacking this critical problem. From technical solutions associated with code, to behavioral research associated with the software engineering process, to a myriad of associated underlying contributing factors, this mini-track is intended to bring researchers together to share information and learn from each other. Teaching cases and business cases demonstrating methods of success are also invited and welcomed.

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:
• Tools to improve software assurance
• Methods to improve software assurance
• Development techniques to build security in, rather than add it on after the fact
• Models to enable better software assurance measurement
• Theory, design and research issues associated with software assurance mechanisms
• Frameworks associated with software assurance
• Workforce, education and training issues that can improve software assurance
• The role of government regulation in resolving software assurance issues

Important Dates
2/17/2011  Submission deadline
3/24/2011  Authors notified of paper acceptance decision
4/21/2011  Camera-Ready Papers due
8/4 – 7/2011  AMCIS in Detroit

Submissions via manuscript central system: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2011
AMCIS website http://amcis2011.aisnet.org/
Track: Information Systems Security and Privacy
Mini-track: Software Assurance

Chairs’ Contact Information
Wm. Arthur Conklin
University of Houston
waconklin at uh.edu<mailto:waconklin at uh.edu>

Dan Shoemaker
University of Detroit – Mercy
shoemadp at udmercy.edu<mailto:shoemadp at udmercy.edu>

Carol Woody
SEI/CMU
cwoody at cert.org<mailto:cwoody at cert.org>


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