(Full Chapters Due: 4/15/2008)
United States Air Force Academy, Colorado, USA
Introduction. The increasing societal dependence on information technology has forced cyber security to be one of the most urgent challenges facing the global community. Solutions are necessary to keep vital systems safe from harm -- the security of modern nations depends on it. Modern cyber security challenges cross a range of disciplines and fields to include computing technology, business, organizational studies, risk management, military strategy, policy and law. Solutions require involvement from every type of organization including government, industry, and academia as well as from individuals who live and work in cyberspace.
Overall Objective of the Book. To ensure that the global community can freely and safely operate in cyberspace, critical information, information systems, and networks must be reliably and robustly protected from numerous dangers. The book will be a valuable resource for academics and practitioners alike by addressing the most pressing issues facing cyber security from a national as well as global perceptive. Only by acting together can we best minimize the risks that threaten our systems and then develop effective response solutions to protect them. Thus, the ultimate goal of this book is to facilitate international cooperation to help build a more secure future in cyberspace.
Target Audience. Intended readers come from the range of communities who are concerned with information systems assurance and cyberspace security to include governments, non-government organizations (NGOs), commercial businesses, military, defense organizations, and academia. The book will bring together leading authors to address one of the most pressing challenges facing modern society--global information assurance. Recommended topics include, but are not limited to:
- Commercial and corporate aspects of cyber warfare
- Protecting critical national and global infrastructures
- Cyber policy, law and legislative issues
- Case studies (e.g. Estonia event)
- Governance and control issues
- Human factors in security
- Managerial and organizational issues
- Security innovation
- Cyberspace education, training and human development
- National attack, sensing, warning, and response systems
- Threat analysis of malicious actors (e.g. crime, terrorism, competitors, nation states)
- Critical reviews/reassessments of documents such as the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace
- International security cooperation & information sharing
- Roles & relationships among industry, government, NGOs, military, academia
- Standards & certification issues
- Business continuity planning
- Internet & telecommunications infrastructure
- Operations and physical security
- Developing secure applications and information systems
- Open-source products, outsourcing and national security
- Small- and medium-sized business concerns
- Risk management strategies
- Cyber insurance
- Perception management in cyberspace
- Measures of cyberspace security effectiveness
- Access control systems and identity management
- Digital forensics
- Privacy and ethics
- Data confidentiality, integrity, and availability
- Cyber security frameworks, architectures and models
- Literature reviews & research agendas
- Future considerations
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE. Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before December 15, 2007, a 2-4 page manuscript proposal clearly explaining the purpose and anticipated outline of the proposed chapter along with a short bio of each author. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by December 31, 2007 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter organizational guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by April 15, 2008. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. The book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global, http://www.igi-global.com/. (Formerly Idea Group Inc.)
Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document) or by mail to:
Kenneth J. Knapp, Ph.D.
