Call for Papers: 20th Annual FIP WG 11.3 Working Conference on Data and Applications

The paper submission date has been extended to March 8, 2006, for the 20th annual IFIP WG 11.3 Working Conference on Data and Applications. The conference will be held at SAP Labs in Sophia Antipolis, France from July 31-August 2, 2006.

Using Virtual Machines to Defend Against Security and Trust Failures

Using DNS for first-level spam filtering

Didn’t we learn anything from WarGames?

I3P Fellowships Now Available

Fellowships for up to $150,000 per fellow per award for cyber security R&D are available from the I3P (Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection - www.thei3p.org).

7th Annual CERIAS Information Security Symposium

How do we negotiate trust in a world of imperfect knowledge, conflicting information, and indirect communication? Trust acknowledges the existence of risk, but infers that the calculated risk is manageable and acceptable—that a decision

Surveillance Society

Postdoctorate Fellowship Opening at George Mason

Spafford Profiled By ACM (acm.org)

Professor Spafford has been interviewed about a variety of topics as part of a series of articles profiling ACM Fellows.

Professor Spafford Interview (pkiforum.com)

PKIForum.com has published a multi-part interview with Professor Spafford discussing security from the user’s standpoint, as well as PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) issues.