Journal of Database Management
Special issue on Data and Information Security

Guest Editor
Gurpreet Dhillon
University of Nevada Las Vegas, USA

Contributions are invited for a special issue of the Journal of Database Management on Data and Information Security. Clearly data and information are critical for the success of any organization. And with recent advances in wireless commerce and increased dependence of businesses on information and communication technologies, it has become important to consider various aspects of protecting data and information. Authors wishing to contribute to this special issue should focus on aspects of data and information security as these relate to modern enterprises.

Representative topics include but are not limited to the following:

-Data and information security in emergent organizations
-Wed database security
-Mobile Commerce security
-Data privacy considerations in the virtual world
-Privacy in mobile communications
-Data back-up and recovery issues
-Security considerations for enterprise and server based storage
-Security of multi-level transactions


SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
All submissions will be double blind reviewed and must be received by March 1, 2002. Submissions can be made electronically to the guest editor at  dhillon@ccmail.nevada.edu. Alternatively 4 copies of the paper should be mailed to:

Dr. Gurpreet Dhillon
Department of MIS, College of Business
University of Nevada Las Vegas
4505 Maryland Parkway
Las Vegas, NV 89154

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Dr Gurpreet Dhillon. Associate Professor of MIS @ UNLV, USA
http://www.unlv.edu/faculty/dhillon/
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Author: Managing Information System Security (Macmillan, 1997); NA Regional Editor - IJIM; AE - EJIS
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