IS 2009 - PC Co-chairs' Message

On behalf of the Program Committee of the 1st International Workshop on Information Security (IS 2006), it was our great pleasure to welcome the participants to IS 2006, held in conjunction with OnTheMove Federated Conferences (OTM 2006), from October 30 to November 1, 2006, in Montpellier, France. In recent years, significant advances in information security have been made throughout the world. The objective of the workshop was to promote information security-related research and development activities and to encourage communication between researchers and engineers throughout the world in this area. In response to the call for papers, a total of 138 papers were submitted, from which 33 were carefully selected for presentation in 9 technical sessions. Each paper was peer reviewed by several members of the Program Committee or additional reviewers. The workshop program covered a variety of research topics, which are of current interest, such as multimedia security, network security, RFID security, cryptographic algorithms and protocols, biometrics for security, access control and smart card technology, risk analysis and business continuity, information security and service resilience. These technical presentations addressed the latest research results from international industry and academia and reported on findings on information security. We thank all the authors who submitted valuable papers to the workshop. We are grateful to the members of the Program Committee and to the additional reviewers. Without their support, the organization of such a high-quality workshop program would not have been possible. We are also indebted to many individuals and organizations that made this event happen, namely Springer. Last but not least, we are grateful to the General Co-chairs, Workshops General Chair, and the Web Site Manager for their help in all aspects of the organization of this workshop. We hope that you enjoyed this 1st International Workshop on Information Security at Montpellier, France, if you attended, and that you found it a useful forum for the exchange of ideas, results and recent findings.