ISCTURKEY 2012 - 5th International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology

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"5th International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology" (ISCTURKEY2012) will be held at the METU Culture and Congress Center from May 17 to 19, 2012 and organized by Information Security Association of Turkey in corporation with Information Technologies and Communications Authority (BTK), Gazi University and the Middle East Technical University (METU).

"Information Security and Cryptology Conference" is the most important event in this area, in which related scientific and sectoral studies done in Turkey and around the world are shared, university-government-industry cooperation is developed, the public is informed and educated, and all scientists, researchers and industry practitioners exchange their knowledge and experiences among themselves. The main goals of this conference are to help adaptation of society members to the information security and cryptology concepts that are important for each country, to contribute to increase the accumulation of scientific knowledge in this field, and to enhance cooperations among scientists, institutions and industries.

The main theme of this year's "International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology" is "Cyber Security and Defence". As living in the age of information and technology, public and private sector institutions and organizations begin to place their own data in electronic medium with an increasing amount; hence, protecting the electronic data is more important than ever in today's cyber environment in which the new spyware is developed every half second, and an average of 15-25 new attacks is occurring every day. Therefore, especially, the solutions to prevent, defence and/or resist against cyber attacks which are occurred increasingly recently towards the military, economic, technological, and critical infrastructure of the countries, and other topics will be discussed by experts in the conference.

During the conference, in addition to panels, tutorials, and special topics specified by the views of invited speakers, papers submitted by outstanding researchers will provide a great contribution to the conference, especially to reach the targeted outcomes are expected.

The submitted papers will be evaluated by at least three referees, experts in the corresponding field. According to referee reports, the appropriate submissions will be selected for oral or poster presentation, and those will also be published in the conference proceedings.

We also would like to announce that some of the accepted papers will be published in the International Journal of Information Security Science (www.ijiss.org), International Journal of Cyber Ethics in Education (www.igi-global.com/ijcee) and the others national and international journals be announced soon.

We hope that the conference will contribute to the personal, corporate, enterprise, national and international information security concepts. Academics, sector representatives and other researchers are respectfully invited to contribute to this conference.

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