WISP2018: Workshop on Information Security And Privacy (WISP) 2018 San Francisco Marriott Marquis San Francisco, CA, United States, December 13, 2018

The AIS Special Interest Group on Information Security and Privacy (SIGSEC) is pleased to announce its thirteenth annual Workshop on Information Security and Privacy (WISP) to be held pre-ICIS on December 13, 2018 in San Francisco, California. This workshop is intended to be a forum for scholars, practitioners, and doctoral students interested in information security, privacy and bright ICT & trust to exchange ideas and encourage collaboration among the members of the SIGSEC community and others.

List of Topics

We invite individuals to submit research articles, case studies, position papers, research-in-progress, and panel discussion proposals that address all interesting aspects of information security, assurance and privacy, including but not limited to:

• Socio-technical analysis of information security 
• Socio-technical analysis of information privacy  
• Cultural issues in information security and privacy  
• IT risk analysis and management  
• Economics of information security and privacy
• Strategies for decreasing risky habits and behaviors  
• Analysis of system vulnerabilities and risk exposure  
• Analysis of security vulnerabilities and breaches
• Security and privacy policy compliance
• Behavioral issues in information security
• Security and privacy metrics    Digital Forensics and Security Analytics 
• Electronic espionage and hi-tech crime
• Information security/privacy in e-government 
• Information security/privacy in social networks 
• Legal, societal, and ethical issues in high tech. crime
• Cybersecurity education and skill development 
• Information security and privacy issues in e-learning 
• Detecting and mitigating insider threats
• Cybersecurity and diplomacy 
• Cybersecurity Incident Response
• NeuroIS
• Impact of cybersecurity on citizens and national security
• Deterring anonymous sources of threat
• Bright Information & Communication Technologies
• Trust and Freedom of Expression

Submission Guidelines

All submitted papers undergo a double-blind peer-review process. Please submit your papers using our conference submission system located at https://easychair.org/cfp/WISP2018. All submission should be in Microsoft Word using the workshop template only, with no author names or other identification in the manuscript file, including document properties, and tracked changes (blind the submission, please). Please use the WISP2018 template for your paper and references. Completed research and case study papers should be limited to 15 pages. Research-in-progress papers should be limited to eight pages. Panel proposals should be limited to three pages. Final camera ready manuscripts of accepted submissions should include authors name, email and affiliation.

DATES

• Submission Deadline (extended): October 15, 2018
• Notification of Acceptance: October 15, 2018 (for papers submitted by Sept 30)
• Revised, Camera ready Document: November 30, 2018
• Workshop Date: December 13, 2018

Committees

Workshop Co-Chairs
Michael Curry ─ Washington State Univ., USA
Sanjay Goel ─ Univ. at Albany, SUNY, USA
Anat Zeelim-Hovav – Korea University Business School

AIS SIGSEC
Herb Mattord (President) - Kennesaw State University 
Christie Fuller (Secretary) ─ Louisiana Tech University 
Robert E. Crossler, ─ Washington State Univ. (Treasurer)

Program Committee
Gurpreet S Dhillon – Univ of North Carolina Greensboro
Rohit Valecha, University of Texas, San Antonio
Alexandra Durcikova –Univ. of Oklahoma, USA
Jeffrey Wall - Michigan Technological University
Marko Niemima – University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Jake Lee    – Louisiana Tech University
Dan Kim – University of North Texas
Sebastian Lins - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Lynne Coventry – Northumbria Univ., UK
Miranda Kajtazi – Lund Univ., Sweden
John D’Arcy, University of Delaware, USA
Steven M. Furnell –Univ. of Plymouth, UK
Atiya Avery - University of Illinois at Chicago
Michelle Maasberg  – Louisiana Tech University
Scott Thiebes - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Venue

The conference will be held at the San Francisco Marriot Marquis Hotel. Please make reservations through the conference website. 

Contact

Questions about submissions should be emailed to michael.curry@wsu.edu or goel@albany.edu with WISP2018 in the subject line. Questions about papers on Bright ICT, Trust and Freedom of Expression should be sent to dan.kim@unt.edu.