Aims & Scope

All manuscripts must be prepared in English and are subject to a rigorous and fair peer-review process. Generally, accepted papers will appear online within 3 weeks followed by printed hard copy. The journal publishes original papers including but not limited to the following fields:

· Access Control

· Anti-Virus and Anti-Worms

· Authentication and Authorization

· Biometric Security

· Cryptography

· Data and System Integrity

· Database Security

· Distributed Systems Security

· Electronic Commerce Security

· Fraud Control

· Grid Security

· Information Hiding and Watermarking

· Information Privacy

· Information Security Engineering

· Intellectual Property Protection

· Intrusion Detection

· Key Management and Key Recovery

· Language-based Security

· Network Security

· Operating System Security

· Risk Evaluation and Security Certification

· Security and Privacy for Social Computing

· Security Evaluation

· Security for Mobile Computing

· Security Models

· Security Protocols

· Signature and Key Agreement Protocol

· Software Security

· System Security

· Trusted Computing and Trustworthy Computing Technology

We are also interested in: 1) Short Reports—2-5 page papers where an author can present either preliminary data or an idea with theoretical background but has not yet completed the research needed for a complete paper; 2) Book Reviews—Comments and critiques.