[ecrea] IJEG SI on Security and Privacy of E-Government Applications and Services

please let us bring to your attention the extended submissions deadline
(December 10, 2012) for the special issue of the Intl Journal of
Electronic Governance (IJEG, http://www.inderscience.com/ijeg) on
“Security and Privacy of E-Government Applications and Services”

the extended call for papers for this special issue follows below and,
together with Konstantinos Papapanagiotou and Vasileios Vlachos, special
issue guest-editors, we gladly look forward to your submissions

kind regards,
Dimitris Gouscos, IJEG Editor
(gouscos /at/ media.uoa.gr)
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International Journal of Electronic Governance (IJEG)
http://www.inderscience.com/ijeg

Call for Papers for Special Issue on

“Security and Privacy of E-Government Applications and Services”

extended deadline for paper submissions: December 10, 2012

Guest Editors
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Dr. Konstantinos Papapanagiotou
Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP), Athens, Greece
e-mail: (konstantinos /at/ owasp.org)

Dr. Vasileios Vlachos
Department of Computer Science and Telecommunications, School of
Technological Applications, Technological Educational Institution (TEI)
of Larissa, Greece
e-mail: (vsvlachos /at/ owasp.gr)

Focus of the special issue
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Securing critical infrastructure has emerged in recent years not only as
a result of the threat of cyber war but also due to real attacks that
targeted for example Estonia, Russia, Georgia and other countries, or
even malware outbreaks such as Stuxnet and Duku. Nonetheless, the focus
of the security community in terms of protecting nation-critical assets
is traditionally placed mainly on the network perimeter, ignoring to a
large extent the increased risk of insecure software. In addition during
the past years a number of Fortune 100 companies including Defense
Contractors faced severe industrial espionage attacks and consecutive
data leakage of classified information.

Recent surveys indicate that government applications demonstrate
increased vulnerabilities and at the same time elevated risk, as they
store and process critical information such as PII, health information,
national security data and furthermore operate critical systems.
Moreover most SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) systems
are Internet connected and thus vulnerable to a wide range of network
attacks. Latest theoretical evidence and vast amount of empirical data
indicates a rise on similar attacks as well on their sophistication.
Therefore most modern societies characterize e-goverment sites and SCADA
systems as critical to their national security.

This special issue aims to focus on the resilience and assurance of
e-government applications, services and procedures and to report
relevant research and experiences from operational case studies.

More specifically, original unpublished research articles and case
studies are sought covering various disciplines pertinent to security
and privacy of e-government applications and relevant cross-domain
research, including risks, threats and countermeasures. The focus of the
special issue shall be on research papers, case studies, experience
reports and impact/efficiency assessments based on operational findings
from secure e-government implementations with considerable impact and
learning potential.

Subject coverage
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1. Research papers on security and privacy of e-government applications
and services.

Contributions are sought on a set of themes that include, but are not
exclusively limited to, the following topics:
-    cyberwar, cyberterrorism and cyber-defense
-    security and privacy concerns regarding e-government applications,
services and data storage
-    threat modelling, vulnerability analysis and security and privacy
testing of e-government applications and services
-    countermeasures for e-government security and privacy vulnerabilities
-    e-government application and service development for security and
privacy
-    security and privacy aspects of new/emerging online, mobile and
offline technologies and paradigms for e-government applications and
services
-    intrusion detection/prevention systems for e-government
applications and services
-    business risks of e-government application and service security and
privacy
-    social and economic aspects of e-government security and privacy
-    security and privacy metrics for e-government applications and services
-    e-government security and privacy awareness and education.

2. Operational case studies of security and privacy for e-government
applications and services with considerable impact. For each case, the
following information should be provided:
-    description of case
-    problem addressed and solution achieved
-    policy context and strategy
-    security and privacy aspects of the solution
-    evaluation of effectiveness and impact assessment
-    results and lessons learnt.

Notes for intending authors
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Submitted papers should not have been previously published or be
currently under consideration for publication elsewhere.

Different submissions by the same authors are discouraged and may not be
considered for review. Collaborating researchers interested in
submitting to the special issue are encouraged to consider combining
their work in a single and stronger submission.

All papers are refereed through a double blind process. A guide for
authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting
papers are available on the IJEG Submission of Papers web-page
(http://www.inderscience.com/papers).

All papers must be submitted online through the IJEG On-line Submissions
System (http://www.inderscience.com/papers). If you experience any
problems submitting your paper online, please contact
(submissions /at/ inderscience.com), describing the exact problem you
experience. Please include in your email the title of the Journal.

Important dates
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Deadline for paper submission :            December 10, 2012

Notification of review results :            January 30, 2013

Submission of revised manuscripts :        March 30, 2013

The special issue will be published in 2013.

IJEG Editor-in-Chief
Assistant Prof. Dimitris Gouscos
University of Athens, Faculty of Communication and Media Studies

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