Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Security of information and networks - SIN '09

Abstract

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 2nd International Conference on Security of Information and Networks -- SIN 2009, this year organized in technical cooperation with ACM Special Interest Group on Security, Audit and Control (SIGSAC). The conference, similar to SIN 2007, covers practically all aspects of security of information and networks. The SIN 2007 Conference had such sections as "Ciphers", "Mobile Agents and Networks," "Attacks, Intrusion Detection, and Security Recommendations|," "Security Software, Performance, and Experience," "Access Control and Security Assurance." SIN 2009 Conference sections are Security Assessment, Policies, Educational Programs (7 papers);Security and Integrity Management and Models (9 papers);Cryptography, Security and Networks (10 papers);Access Control and Security Assurance (10 papers);Attacks, Intrusion Detection (9 papers). The sections resemble those of SIN 2007 but slightly differ reflecting actual contents of the accepted papers. We received 114 submissions of which only a small portion was accepted based on at least two independent reviews. At times three, even four, reviews were secured before a decision could be made. Overall acceptance ratio is 39%: 25 submissions were accepted as full papers (22%), 16 as short (14%), and 4 as fast abstract papers (3%). The authors are from Bangladesh, China, Finland, Germany, India, Iran, Ireland, Italy, North Cyprus, Norway, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Syria, Turkey, UK, and USA. The papers of "Security Assessment, Policies, Educational Programs" section consider such topics as risk and vulnerability estimation, a study on e-bank trusting, security assessment, and education issues. "Security and Integrity Management and Models" section papers consider various security management policies, models and architectures. "Cryptography, Security and Networks" section presents papers on several cryptosystems, mobile and sensor networks security and design issues. "Access Control and Security Assurance" section papers consider access control, authentication methods, digital signature, and database security problems. And finally, "Attacks, Intrusion Detection" section combines the papers discussing spam, phishing, denial of service and other attacks detecting and countering. SIN Conference gives researchers and practitioners a unique opportunity to share their perspectives with others interested in the various aspects of security of information and networks. We hope that these proceedings will serve as a valuable reference for security researchers and developers.