The 2nd Call for Paper for the 12th Nordic Workshop on Secure IT Systems (NordSec 2007) has been published a while ago. I am very proud to be one of the members of the program committee and would love to see many submissions to the workshop.

Important dates:

• Paper submissions due: 23 July
• Notification to authors: 10 September
• Final papers due: 24 September

The workshop will be held from October 11 - 12 2007 in Reykjavik, Iceland

About NordSec

NordSec 2007 is organized by Reykjavik University, in Iceland, with a special focus on Language-based Techniques in Security. Since 1996, the NordSec workshops have brought together computer security researchers and practitioners from the Nordic countries, Northern Europe, and elsewhere. The workshop has an emphasis on applied computer security and is intended to encourage interaction between academic and industrial research.

Confirmed invited speakers are:

• Cedric Fournet, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK
• Greg Morrisett, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

The workshop is linked to a special issue of the Journal of Logic and Algebraic Programming. Authors of selected technical papers may be invited to submit revised versions for consideration in this special issue.

For a list of applicable topics please refer to the CfP webpage.

A special focus of the 2007 NordSec workshop are Language-based Techniques in computer security and their applications; papers and extended abstracts on this topic are especially welcome. Students, researchers, and industry professionals working in this area are encouraged to submit to the workshop.