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Subject: CFP: ISOneWorld "Socio-cultural InfoSec" Track Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 10:52:27 -0600 From: "Fred E. Beaver" fbeaver@MEMPHIS.EDU To: ISWORLD@LISTSERV.HEANET.IE

ISWorld Colleagues,

PLEASE NOTE THE SUBMISSION DEADLINE IS FAST APPROACHING - Nov 16, 2001

Final Call for Participation

TRACK: Social and Cultural Aspects of Information Security CHAIR: Fred E. Beaver, University of Memphis, TN (USA)

Please note the ISOneWorld Conference and Convention will be held April 4 - 5, 2002 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. For more details refer to our web site at: http://www.isoneworld.org

TRACK DESCRIPTION AND THEME:

Current events have hightened everyone's awareness of the need for security on multiple fronts of socioeconomic, cultural, political, military, and individual dimensions. Even this listserv was shutdown temporarily, and now has postings approved before distribution, due to diverse cultural exchanges stirred up by the 9/11 events.

The Information Security (InfoSec) research field is dominated by technology practitioners and computer science academia. Though these have provided valuable solutions to protect information, overall there's little research focus on the social (behavioral) and cultural aspect of InfoSec. Though passwords, firewalls, encryption, biometrics, etc. provide techno solutions, the 2001 CSI/FBI Survey (www.gocsi.com) of US corporate and government entities shows some alarming statistics:

- 30% of computer/network attacks came from WITHIN the corporation; - the 70% from the Internet included a large percentage from either outside the US or routed through foreign countries; - 91% reported employee abuse of Internet access; - 94% had detected viruses.

Social and cultural issues directly related to the above stats include: - employee attitude on security, privacy, and following corp policy; - cultural diversity and its impact on securing global networks; - political and legal affect on Transborder Data Flow (TBDF), (why hackers prefer routing through certain countries); - hacker profile that creates viruses and attacks networks/websites; - the debate over encryption exporting vs. bureaucratic monitoring and protection of e-commerce - specific socio-cultural issues unique to InfoSec as opposed to Info Sys as a whole.

This call for papers seeks to get quality submissions related to one or more of the issues above. It is the track chair's hope that not only submissions will be sent in, but that the track session will be a spirited, educational exchange of thought and research!

Important dates: Electronic Submission- November 16, 2001 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection - December 14, 2001 Camera Ready Submission - February 15, 2002

PLEASE SEND ALL SUBMISSIONS TO: admin@isoneworld.org

Cheers, Fred

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