Conference General Chairs
P. Peleties, Cyprus Computer Society
P. Masouras, Cyprus Computer Society

Programme Committee Chairs
D. Gritzalis, AUEB, Greece (dgrit@aueb.gr)
J. Lopez, Univ. of Malaga, Spain (jlm@lcc.uma.es)

Programme Committee
V. Atluri, Rutgers University, USA
L. Bauer, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
J. Biskup, T.U. Dortmund, Germany
J. Camenisch, IBM Research, Switzerland
B. de Decker, K.U. Leuven, Belgium
Y. Deswarte, LAAS-CNRS, France
E. Dawson, QUT, Australia
J. Eloff, University of Pretoria, South Africa
S. Fischer-Huebner, Karlstad University, Sweden
D. Frincke, Pacific Northwest Nat. Lab., USA
S. Furnell, University of Plymouth, UK
S. Jajodia, George Mason University, USA
L. Janczewski, University of Auckland, New Zealand
S. Katsikas, University of Piraeus, Greece
C. Lambrinoudakis, Univ. of the Aegean, Greece
F. Martinelli, National Research Council, Italy
N. Miloslavskaya, MEPHI, Russia
R. Molva, Institut Eurecom, France
K. Moulinos, ENISA, European Union
Y. Murayama, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan
E. Okamoto, University of Tsukuba, Japan
R. Oppliger, eSecurity, Switzerland
G. Pangalos, University of Thessaloniki, Greece
J.-H. Park, Kyungnam University, South Korea
G. Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany
B. Preneel, K.U. Leuven, Belgium
S. Qing, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
K. Rannenberg, Goethe Univ. Frankfurt, Germany
R. Roman, University of Malaga, Spain
P. Samarati, University of Milan, Italy
S. Shenoi, University of Tulsa, USA
M. Soriano, UPC, Spain
W. Susilo, University of Wollongong, Australia
S. Teufel, University of Freiburg, Switzerland
B. Tsoumas, Ernst & Young, Greece
G. Tsudik, Univ. of California (Irvine), USA
R. von Solms, NMMU, South Africa
T. Welzer, University of Maribor, Slovenia
S. Wolthusen, Gjovik University College, Norway
L. Yngstrom, University of Stockholm, Sweden
J. Zhou, I2R, Singapore

Local Organizing Committee
Yiannos Aletraris, Cyprus Computer Society
Michalis Georgiou, Cyprus Computer Society
George Beitis, Cyprus Computer Society
Elena Stylianou, Cyprus Computer Society

Conference topics
SEC-2009 is the 24th in a series of well-established international conferences on Information Security, which are organized annually by the Technical Committee 11 (TC-11) of IFIP.

Papers offering novel and mature research contributions, in any aspect of information security and privacy, are solicited for submission to the conference. Papers may present theory, applications, or practical experiences on topics including but not limited to:

Access Control Applications of Cryptography Attacks and Viral Software Authentication and Authorization Biometrics and Applications Critical ICT Resource Protection Data and System Integrity Data Protection, Ethics Digital Content Security Identity Management Information Hiding Information Warfare Internet and Web Security Intrusion Detection

Peer-to-Peer Security Privacy Enhancing Technologies Risk Analysis and Management Secure Electronic Voting Secure Sensor Networks Secure Systems Development Security Architectures Security Economics Security Education Security Management Security Metrics Smart Cards SPAM, SPIT, SPIM Trust Management and Models

Instructions for paper submission
Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference. Papers must be written in English; they should be at most 12 pages long in total, including bibliography and well-marked appendices. The paper should be intelligible without its appendices.

Accepted papers will be presented at the conference and published by  Springer. Accepted papers must follow Springer’s guidelines for the IFIP Series, available at  www.springer.com/series/6102 (see Manuscript Preparation in LaTeX for contributed books, under the link “Author Templates”). A LaTeX source file will be required. At least one author of each accepted paper must register with the conference and present the paper.

All papers must be submitted in electronic form through the web. The website for the electronic submission and author instructions can be accessed via www.sec2009.org by the deadline indicated below. Papers submitted after this deadline will be discarded without review.

Important dates
Submission of papers: October 20, 2008 October 30, 2008 (strict) CLOSED
Notification to authors:  December 20, 2008 December 23, 2008 CLOSED
Camera-ready copies:  January 15, 2009 CLOSED