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From: Program Committee <nissconference@dockmaster2.ncsc.mil>
Subject: Call for Papers -- National Information Systems Security Conference
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 06:32:00 -0500

The National Information Systems Security Conference (NISSC) welcomes
papers, panels, and tutorials on all topics related to information
systems security.  Our audience represents a broad range of information
security interests spanning government, industry, commercial, and
academic communities.  Papers and panel discussions typically cover:

-- research and development for secure products and systems, presenting
the latest thinking and directions; 
-- electronic commerce; 
-- legal issues such as privacy, ethics, investigations, and
enforcement; 
-- practical solutions for government, business and industry
information security concerns; 
-- network security issues and solutions; 
-- management activities to promote security in IT systems including
security planning, risk management, and awareness and training; 
-- implementation, accreditation, and operation of secure systems in a
government, business, or industry environment; 
-- international harmonization of security criteria and evaluation; 
-- evaluation of products, systems and solutions against trust
criteria; 
-- tutorials on security basics and advanced issues; 
-- security issues dealing with rapidly changing information
technologies; 
-- highlights from other security forums; and 
-- implementing policy direction.

For more details see http://csrc.nist.gov/nissc/call.htm.