Secure Software Conference Announced

CERT is sponsoring the "Secure Software Architecture, Design, Implementation and Assurance Minitrack" at this year's Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences which will convene January 3-6, 2007. A call for papers has been announced. The deadline for submitting papers is June 15, 2006.

The "Secure Software Architecture, Design, Implementation and Assurance Minitrack," which is part of the "Software Technology Track", focuses on the research and automation required to develop secure software systems that do not compromise other system properties such as performance or reliability. Current security engineering methods are demonstrably inadequate, as software vulnerabilities are currently being discovered at the rate of over 4000 per year. These vulnerabilities are caused by software designs and implementations that do not adequately protect systems and by development practices that do not focus sufficiently on eliminating implementation defects that result in security flaws. An opportunity exists for systematic improvement that can lead to secure software architectures, designs, and implementations.

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