COMPUTER Security Column
Standing Request for Submissions

Contributions are solicited for  the six annual installments of this bimonthly column (articles appear in the even months).

Please note the submission deadlines and articles accepted so far:

Article subject areas may deal with any information technology (IT) area, but must be related to information assurance (IA).

The target length for each column is 2-2.5 magazine pages, or about 1,500-1,900 words. Each figure or table is counted as 300 words, and obviously we prefer to include appropriate graphic elements when they are available. Columns do not include a bibliography or an acknowledgments section.

Please look at past issues of COMPUTER, and be aware that your article will be formatted similarly to other articles and columns you see in those issues. If you need an example article to view, one will be provided. When articles are published in the IEEE digital library, graphics that appear in print do not carry forward, except for drawings, figures, tables  provided by the the author.

Articles are published in even numbered months and my deadline to the Computer Society is roughly a month in advance. Your deadline to me is somewhat earlier.

Submit ideas for articles, abstracts, or rough drafts to me at jack.cole@ieee.org, and I will be able to tell you when, among the submissions I receive, your article might be published.

Areas that may be discussed in these articles include, but are in no way limited to:

Information Assurance (IA)

• Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP)
• Security (S)
• Cryptology, Cryptographic Methods
• Software Assurance (SWA)
• Certification and Accreditation (C&A)
• Privacy
• Biometrics

Relevant Articles (List Under Development and Not Exclusive or Well Ordered)

• Information Delivery Using IT
• Commerce, Defense Conducted Wired, Wirelessly
• Impact on Business Continuity, Mission Completion, Elements of Society’s Critical Infrastructure
• Explanation, criticism, identification of existing, developing, or missing standards
• Metrics and Testing
• Verification and Validation (V&V)
• Impact or Lack of Laws and Public Policies
• Intellectual Property Effects
• Intrusion Detection
• Patching
• Vulnerability Assessment
• Reports on Conferences, Symposia, Workshops
• IA & S for Operating, Storage Systems and Networks
• Information Sharing
• Security Models
• Survivability and Resilient Systems
• Formal Methods and Software Engineering for IA
• Proactive Approaches to IA
• CCITSE (Common Criteria) Experience and Methodology
• Dynamic Defense Strategies Driven By Intrusion Detection (Prediction and Countermeasures)
• Insider Attack Detection and Countermeasures
• Specification, Design, Development, and Deployment of IA Mechanisms
• Terminology
• Identification of IA needs by particular technologies or applications for
• Fundamental problems (or strengths) of standards or the development process
• Collaboration or lack thereof between relevant groups and invitations for further collaboration
• Collisions of related activities with each other, with laws, policies, and proposals to prevent collisions through accommodation
• Description of current or planned activities of a group or organization involved in a relevant area

Authors for these articles come from unlimited backgrounds, and as example include:

• Individuals without affiliation to any group
• Individuals of government agencies (any country)
• Members of industry or other consortia

Anyone can write an article, and get it published.