CFP: Enterprise Information Systems Assurance

Call for Book Chapters

Enterprise Information Systems Assurance and System Security: Managerial and Technical Issues

Editors Professors Merrill Warkentin and Rayford B. Vaughn, Mississippi State University

This book will bring together leading authoritative authors to address arguably our most pressing challenge in the IT field – how to create secure environments for the application of technology to serve our future needs. It will bridge the gap between theory and practice, between academia and industry, and between computer science and MIS. Its chapters will provide an integrated, holistic perspective on this complex set of challenges, combined with practical experiences of leading figures in industry and the military. Some of the chapters will provide rigorous research results, while others will be in-depth reports from the field. The articles will be weaved into a practical collection that will be valuable to scholars and students of IA and Computer Security, as well as to leaders of all organizations interested in creating and promoting secure environments for their employees, customers, and constituents. All chapters will be rigorously (blind) reviewed and carefully edited. Chapters in this compendium may include, but are not limited, to the following topics.

Potential Chapter Topics

1. Proactive Computer System Security Management

2. Intrusion Detection Systems

3. Firewall Overview

4. Firewall Deployment

5. The DMZ/IPN

6. Security Engineering

7. Trusted Products and Assurance

8. The Application of Computing Forensics

9. The Law (Enforcement and Employment), including Sarbanes-Oxley and new legislation

10. Emerging User Authentication Methods, including Biometrics

11. Database Security

12. eCommerce Security

13. Software Security

14. Office Automation Security (procedures and practices)

15. The Wireless problem

16. Corporate Security Policy and Implementation

17. Centralized and Decentralized Computer Security Management Infrastructure

18. Cryptography, Encryption, and/or Steganography

19. Hostile and Malicious Code

20. Vulnerability/Risk Assessments

21. Future Considerations

Tentative Project Timetable

Nov 1, 2004: Original Chapter Proposals (two pages), plus author bios sent to editor(s)

Nov 15: Feedback to potential contributors on proposals, with guidelines for development

Jan. 15, 2005: Full Chapters (in proper format) due to editors for blind review process

Feb 15: Reviews due back from all reviewers

Mar 15: Notifications sent to contributors, with suggestions for revisions (or rejection)

Apr 30: Revised Manuscripts due back to editors, with cover letter detailing changes

May 24: Final decisions sent to contributors, along with final change recommendations

Jun 15: Final manuscripts due, conforming to publisher’s standards, due back to editors

The Editors

Merrill Warkentin is Professor of MIS in the College of Business & Industry at Mississippi State University. His research, primarily in eCommerce, system security, and virtual teams, has appeared in such journals as MIS Quarterly, Decision Sciences, Decision Support Systems, Communications of the AIS, Journal of Organizational and End User Computing, Information Systems Journal, Journal of Global Information Systems, and others, plus over a dozen books. He is an Associate Editor of four journals, including the Journal of Information Systems Security. He can be reached at mwarkentin@acm.org and www.MISProfessor.com.

Rayford B. Vaughn is an Eminent Scholar and Professor of Computer Science and Engineering in the Bagley College of Engineering at Mississippi State University, where he is also the founding director of the Center for Computer Security Research. His academic career follows a long career in the military and industry, including commanding the Army's largest software development organization and a three-year assignment with the National Security Agency's National Computer Security Center, where he authored national level computer security guidance. He has published over 70 papers, and his research is sponsored by NSF and DoD, among others. He can be reached at vaughn@cse.msstate.edu and http://www.cse.msstate.edu/~security/.

This CFP can be found at http://www.MISProfessor.com/bookcfp.htm

or in PDF format at http://www.MISProfessor.com/bookcfp.pdf

Submission Guidelines

Authors are asked to submit their proposals and manuscripts by e-mail as a file attachment in Microsoft Word, RTF (Rich Text Format), or PDF format to mwarkentin@acm.org. All submissions will be promptly acknowledged. The main body of the e-mail message (and/or separate document) should contain the title of the paper nd the names and contact information (addresses, email, phone numbers) of all authors, along with one-paragraph bios (about 100 words). The author’s name should not be included anywhere in the manuscript. If you have a cover page (not necessary if all info is in your email), please send it as a SEPARATE DOCUMENT.

Manuscripts must include a set of keywords and an Abstract of 100-150 words, precisely summarizing the mission and object of the manuscript. All submissions should be in the English language, and should be carefully edited for format, grammar, and style. Length should be approximately 20 double-spaced 8.5x11 inch pages. Documents should be paginated so that reviewers may refer to page numbers in their reviews. The APA (American Psychological Association) style will be followed. When you use the source in the text, author's name and year of publication should appear (e.g., Vaughn, 1995).

Please use only endnotes, if needed. They will be placed before the references at the end of each chapter. Footnotes at the bottom of a page will not be allowed. All text should be left justified.

Please put all primary section titles in UPPER CASE letters and subheading in both Upper and Lower Case letters. Do not number your titles (for example, 1.0 Introduction; 2.0 Background). Do not use the tab key to indent text such as paragraphs of quotes or lists because the page layout program overrides your left margin with its own, and the tabs end up in mid-sentence.

Submit figures and tables as separate JPG or GIF file, even if embedded in the manuscript. (They may also be requested in camera ready format for production later. Sometimes in converting to the page layout program, figures & tables become distorted.) Please make the figures and tables in conservative sizes. The printable-page size (the image area) of this IGP publication is 4 1/2" x 7 1/4" so DO NOT submit figures or tables that are larger than this because during reduction, details are often lost or type becomes so small that it is hard to read in the printed book. In addition, DO NOT use gray shading or color in your figures or graphs because if it is necessary for IGP typesetters to reduce the size of your figures, the gray shaded or color areas become washed out and in some cases disappear altogether.

For any tables, models, graphs, or other materials directly extracted from previously published materials, you must have written permission from the publisher of that material for reprint use. A copy of that permission release must be submitted with your chapter. It is the individual author’s responsibility to obtain this permission.

A signed copy of Idea Group Publishing's Author's Warranty and Transfer of Copyright Agreement must be submitted with the final copy of your chapter before the publisher can legally proceed with typesetting of your chapter.