Track: Software Technology
Minitrack: Trust and Dependability


IT functions as the information and decision and control system for the operations of our public and private institutions in agriculture, food, water, power, public health, emergency services, government, defense industrial base, transportation, banking and finance, and postal and shipping. The resulting cyberspace-based infrastructure is a dynamic and adaptive system employing hundreds of thousands of interconnected computers, servers, routers, switches, and fiber optic cables that enable our critical infrastructures to support societal functions. Society has, therefore, come to depend upon and trust these systems. The purpose of this mini-track, then is to discuss the best practices and research in computer security technology for networked information systems; their impact on infrastructure security in finance, transportation, utilities, health care, and telecom sectors; interactions among such technology; and issues surrounding privacy, ethics, legislation, law enforcement, and national security.

In this mintrack, depending on the papers selected, the topics will be appropriately organized as four sessions. Panelists will discuss various issues related to the identification of threats, the design of systems that are threat resistant, recovery from attacks, human factors, and ethical, legal, and legislative issues. These topics have been broadly covered in many venues including major IEEE and ACM publications such as Communications of the ACM, IEEE Spectrum and Security and Privacy and conferences such as the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy.

Minitrack Co-chairs:

Phil Laplante (Primary)
Penn State University
School of Graduate Professional Studies
30 East Swedesford Road, Malvern, PA 19355
Phone: (610) 725-5314
Fax: (610) 889-1334
Email: plaplante@psu.edu


Bret Michael
Naval Postgraduate School
Email: bmichael@nps.edu