Welcome to the Third International Conference on Information Security and Assurance
(ISA 2009). ISA 2009 was the most comprehensive conference focused on the
various aspects of advances in information security and assurance. The concept of
security and assurance is emerging rapidly as an exciting new paradigm to provide
reliable and safe life services. Our conference provides a chance for academic and
industry professionals to discuss recent progress in the area of communication and
networking including modeling, simulation and novel applications associated with the
utilization and acceptance of computing devices and systems. ISA 2009 was a successor
of the First International Workshop on Information Assurance in Networks (IAN
2007, Jeju-island, Korea, December, 2007), and the Second International Conference
on Information Security and Assurance (ISA 2008, Busan, Korea, April 2008). The
goal of this conference is to bring together researchers from academia and industry as
well as practitioners to share ideas, problems and solutions relating to the multifaceted
aspects of information technology.
ISA 2009 contained research papers submitted by researchers from all over the
world. In order to guarantee high-quality proceedings, we put extensive effort into
reviewing the papers. All submissions were peer reviewed by at least three Program
Committee members as well as external reviewers. As the quality of the submissions
was quite high, it was extremely difficult to select the papers for oral presentation and
publication in the proceedings of the conference. After extensive discussion and review,
we finally decided to accept a total of 41 full papers for publication in LNCS
volume 5576 from 137 submitted papers. We believe that the chosen papers and topics
provide novel ideas on future research activities.
It would have been impossible to organize our program without the help of many
enthusiastic individuals. We owe special thanks to Sajid Hussain and Alan Chin-Chen
Chang for serving as Workshop Co-chairs. We also thank all the members of the Program
Committee (PC) who reviewed all of the papers submitted to the conference and
provided their feedback to the authors. We appreciate the help of Hangbae Chang,
Soo Kyun Kim, and Deok Gyu Lee for serving as the Local Chairs of the conference.
They coordinated the use of the conference facilities and set up the registration
website. And we would like to take this opportunity to thank all the authors and participants
for their contributions to the conference.