authors are solicited to contribute to the special issue by submitting articles that illustrate research results, projects, surveying works and industrial experiences that describe significant advances in the following areas, but are not limited to

• Access Control, Anonymity, Audit and Audit Reduction & Authentication and Authorization

• Applied Cryptography, Cryptanalysis, Digital Signatures

• Biometric Security

• Boundary Control Devices

• Certification and Accreditation

• Cross-Layer Design for Security

• Security & Network Management

• Data and System Integrity, Database Security

• Defensive Information Warfare

• Game and Software Engineering

• Denial of Service Protection, Intrusion Detection, Anti-Malware

• Distributed Systems Security

• Electronic Commerce

• E-mail Security, Spam, Phishing, E-mail Fraud, Virus, Worms, Trojon Protection

• Grid Security

• Information Hiding and Watermarking & Information Survivability

• Insider Threat Protection, Integrity

• Intellectual Property Protection

• Internet/Intranet Security

• Key Management and Key Recovery

• Language-Based Security

• Mobile and Wireless Security

• Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Security

• Monitoring and Surveillance

• Multimedia Security ,Operating System Security, Peer-to-Peer Security

• Performance Evaluations of Protocols & Security Application

• Privacy and Data Protection

• Product Evaluation Criteria and Compliance

• Risk Evaluation and Security Certification

• Risk/Vulnerability Assessment

• Security & Network Management

• Security Models & protocols

• Security Threats & Countermeasures (DDoS, MiM, Session Hijacking,Replay attack etc,)

• Trusted Computing

• Ubiquitous Computing Security

• Product Evaluation Criteria and Compliance