VISM 2011

In today's global economy, where conditions change often and rapidly, the efficient, effective as well as continuous management of information security has become a central issue. Exercising for instance strong computer security is a company’s crucial task in order to strengthen the resilience of IT systems against arising threats. However, the most sophisticated technical security techniques will fail, if there is no adequate management attention enabling proper planning, design and implementation of these techniques. At this point, visualization plays a fundamental role in mining, aggregating and presenting relevant information. The purpose of this conference is to act as an interdisciplinary platform for decision-makers, academics, and professionals interested in the development and application of concepts as well as technology in ensuring the sustainable use and management of information. Several orientations of research can be imagined, and we welcome submissions coming from various disciplinary or methodological horizons. We are keen to encourage practitioners to contribute as well as academics and we would like to encourage proposals dealing in particular with one of the following aspects.

Topics of interest Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Auditing Business Continuity Cost/Benefit Analysis Data Hiding Techniques Data Recovery Digital Evidence Digital Evidence Extraction Techniques Digital Evidence Search Techniques Digital Forensic Information Visualization Digital Forensics Disaster Recovery Identity Management Information Assurance Information Security Management Information Security Metrics and Measurement Insider Threats IT Governance and Compliance IT Service Continuity Management and Virtualization Tools Risk Management Security Awareness and Education Security Culture Security Requirements Engineering Standards, Best Practices and Certification

Deadlines Submission Deadline: March 20th, 2011 Author Notification: April 20th, 2011 Author Registration: May 20th, 2011 Proceedings Version: May 20th, 2011 Conference/Workshop: August 29th – September 02nd, 2011

Workshop Organizers Stefan Jakoubi, Secure Business Austria, Austria Simon Tjoa, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Austria

Paper Submission Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research and application papers that are not being considered in another forum. Manuscripts will be limited to 5 two-column pages (IEEE Proceeding style) including figures and references. Please follow the IEEE Computer Society's Conference Publishing Services Author Guidelines to prepare your papers. Authors of accepted papers are requested to sign the IEEE copyright form. The author guidelines can be found at http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting.

Papers have to be electronically (PDF, DOC) submitted via the DEXA submission system (http://confdriver.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/dexa2011/).

At least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the conference and present the paper. Papers accepted for presentation will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press as proceedings of the DEXA 2011 workshops.