[AusNOG] OT: AusCERT 2011 Call for papers and tutorials

[Zane Jarvis]

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Call for presentations and tutorials

The AusCERT2011 program committee welcomes original contributions for
presentations and tutorials not previously published nor submitted in parallel
for publication to any other conference or workshop. 

Important Dates: 

Presentation/Tutorial Summary Submission:   21 January 2011 1300h UTC
Notification of acceptance:                 18 February 2011 
Final presentation material due:             8 April 2011 
AusCERT2011 Conference:                     15-20 May 2011 

Presentation/Tutorial Submission:

    http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=auscert2011

Conference details:

    http://conference.auscert.org.au/conf2011/ 


Submissions could fall under one of the following broad categories: 

  * (Web) Application Security and Software Assurance
  * Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
  * Case studies of real life incidents/prosecutions with either positive or
negative outcomes
  * Compliance, Audit and Security Management
  * Computer/Network Forensics and Investigations
  * Critical (Information) Infrastructure Protection
  * Cybercrime & Identity Theft
  * Malicious Software, Honeynets and Honeypots and Intelligence
gathering/analysis
  * Infrastructure, Network, Virtualisation, Mobile and Wireless Security
  * Incident Response
  * Legal and Privacy and Information Security 

NOTE: Submissions made by people other than a presenter/author will not be
accepted, unless prior arrangements have been made. 

Submissions promoting specific products or services will not be considered nor
accepted. 

Presentation summaries should be between 2 and 8 pages. Submissions will only
be considered if they provide a clear idea of the presentation content, key
points to be covered during the presentation and are followed by the
PowerPoint presentation at a later date. 

Summaries should be submitted in text. Submissions will NOT be accepted after
closing time: 

Friday,   21 January 2011 at 11:00:00 PM Australian Eastern Standard Time 
Saturday, 22 January 2011 at 00:00:00 AM Australian Eastern Daylight Savings
Time 
Friday,   21 January 2011 at 8:00:00  AM US Eastern Time 
Friday,   21 January 2011 at 5:00:00  AM US Pacific Time 
Friday,   21 January 2011 at 1:00:00  PM Greenwich Mean Time 

All presentations and tutorial submissions will be handled electronically. 

Presentation requirements:

Presentations comprise a 40 minute timeframe. We recommend presenters allow 5
minutes for questions. If deemed worthy, we would consider a double timeslot.

 Note that if your presentation is selected you must comply with the
following: 

1.Provide PowerPoint or PDF slides by 8th April 2011 for inclusion on the
digital conference media as PDF. 

2.If PowerPoint or PDF slides are NOT received by 8th April 2011 then the
program committee may decide to replace the presentation with an alternative. 

3.If for any reason the nominated speaker cannot present then the conference
program committee or the conference organisers must be informed as soon as
possible and no later than seven days prior to the commencement of the
conference. The program committee reserves the right to allocate the
presentation slot to another presenter in this event. 

AusCERT2011 requires a non-exclusive copyright license for all presentations
at the conference and for the presentation material. This includes potential
distribution on a conference USB stick and the conference website. 

Tutorial requirements:

Tutorials may be half (3.5 hours) or full day (7 hours) or two days (14 hours)
and can cover topics with a business or technical focus. Note that if a
tutorial is selected, handout material for distribution to tutorial attendees
must be provided at least 14 days prior to the commencement of the conference.


AusCERT2011 requires a non-exclusive copyright license for all tutorial
handout material for distribution to tutorial attendees. 

Presentation and Tutorial Selection:

The AusCERT2011 Program Committee will independently select all topics and
speakers based on the quality of presentations. Acceptance of these
submissions is at the discretion of the Program Committee which has the right
to refuse any submission. The Program Committee's decisions are final. 

The above conditions may be varied under special circumstances.

We look forward to receiving your submission. Good luck!


Regards,

Zane Jarvis and Claire Groves
AusCERT2011 Program Committee Co-chairs
On behalf of the AusCERT2011 Program Committee