8th European Conference on i-Warfare ECIW 2010


Mini Tracks – Call for Papers & Workshops			Read the Author Guidelines Tell a Friend
The role of the Enemy in war propaganda Changing security environment: From Nation States to Corporation Security – The Question of Terrorism in Cyber Organization Context Cyber Conflicts Technical Intelligence gathering and Counterfeiting Manage and implement security strategies and issues at enterprise levels

Mini Track on The role of the Enemy in war propaganda Track Chair: Marja Vuorinen, University of Helsinki
The importance of propaganda is evident to any observer of aggressive military regimes. To engage a nation into a war effort it is vital to establish a figure of “the Enemy” in the popular imagination. It is easy enough to recognise such images in the past, e.g. the German as “the Hun” as seen by the Americans of the First World War, or “the Bolshevist Jew” as the imagined conglomerate enemy of the Nazi regime in the second. But similar images are created by the media, government officials and representatives of fighting (terrorist) groups even today. The papers of this track discuss the role of enemy images and enemy-centred propaganda in many different settings, both past and present. Submission details are given below. Topics for submissions to this mini track may include, but are not limited to:
peace-time cases of imagined enemies, passed to mass audiences via print, celluloid or electronic media, as an overt or covert means of preparing for a war; in historical or present-day context war-time propaganda from, or in co-operation with, official sources: posters, films, broadcasts, flyers, bulletins, manufactured news, embedded journalism peace-time public discourse on enemy images in comparison to official propaganda released by a government during a war: a continuum or a take-off? gradual dampening of the sinister image of the enemy and re-introducing their more human qualities as a part of preparing for peace, to ease the future co-operation with the former enemy securitizing, or making something originally harmless into a security issue, particularly as a cold-war practice approaches on propaganda and enemy issues in different academic disciplines, including media studies, identity sociology, discourse analysis and semiotics
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Mini Track on Changing security environment:From Nation States to Corporation Security – The Question of Terrorism in Cyber Organization Context Track Co-Chairs: Aki-Mauri Huhtinen, Finnish National Defence College, Finland and Kari Laitinen			Aki Huhtinen Tell a Friend
The informationalization of security first required a massive and successive reduction of language to the utilitarian demands of ‘communication’, ‘information’ and, finally, ‘code’.To instrumentalising and technologising language we only need a code in the end of communication. To using only code to communicate we can smoothly live in cyber space without big worries of material life. Technology changes the interaction paradigms of securityorganisations. So called network-centric warfare and all of its associated revolutions in military affairs, like cyber war, grow out of and draw their power from fundamentalchanges in western societies. These changes have been dominated by the co-evolution of economics, information technology, and business processes and organisations.
Submission details are given below. Topics for submissions to this mini track may include, but are not limited to:
The way we speak about security and how it generates security in reality and in speech How we organize the cyber and reality security in society context. How the technology changes the interaction paradigms of security organizations How the machines also become life-like when they are construed and constructed informationally, so called cybernetic. The process of the informationalization of security
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Mini Track on Cyber Conflict Track Chairs: Rain Ottis , Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence, Tallinn, Estonia			Rain Otis Tell a Friend
Over the past decade, politically motivated cyber attacks have become very common. Many current conflicts include a mirror campaign in cyber space, which is often run by a 'cyber militia' or loosely organized patriotic hackers. In some cases, state actors have developed an offensive cyber capability. This mini-track will explore the national security aspects of cyber conflicts, from theoretical possibilities to case studies of events in recent years.
Topics for submissions to this mini track may include, but are not limited to:
Cyber militia or patriotic hackers as an extension of state power Potential military uses of cyber attacks Case studies of cyber attacks in modern conflicts Theoretical cyber conflict scenarios What is cyber warfare?
For complete mini track submission details, see the call for papers page.
Mini Track on Technical Intelligence gathering and Counterfeiting Track Chairs: Professor Eric Filiol, ESIEA, France			Eric Filiol Tell a Friend
Intelligence has always been a strategic need for nation states but the rise of the digital age and especially with respect to computer warfare, has made this need even more critical for at least two major reasons. The first one deals with the technical capability of gathering intelligence: it is for the most part contained, processed by complex systems (computer, networks). Intelligence has switched from the physical world to de digital, dematerialized sphere thus making the collect of intelligence far more complex, difficult and a question of experts. It is thus necessary to address the question of how intelligence can be gathered in this new context. The second reason derives from the first one: since intelligence is more and more digital, it is then very easy to counterfeit it and consequently new, big challenges are to be faced. How easily can we counterfeit it, manipulate it and deceive the adversary who collects the data, and how far can we trust any intelligence data? All those issues will be discussed in this mini-track on either a technical (practitioning) basis or an academic approach to show that the intelligence world has now to face huge challenges and that the job will become far more complex. This track intends to attract academic or technical papers presenting results, new approaches or new views with respect to this new challenge for digital societies.
Topics for submissions to this mini track may include, but are not limited to:
Technical intelligence gathering Active forensics technique Data and information counterfeiting Data and information counterfeiting Data interpretation (audio, satellite imagery...)
For complete mini track submission details, see the call for papers page.
Mini Track on Manage and implement security strategies and issues at enterprise levels Track Chairs: Dr Pertti Kuokkanen, Defence Command, Finland.			Pertti Kuokkanen Tell a Friend
The track invites discussions on the topic of security management from the perspectives of knowledge management and security policies. A implementation of strategies and policies are welcome as well.
Topics for submissions to this mini track may include, but are not limited to:
Information security governance and management Risk Management Strategic leadership Perception management Security for small to medium enterprises
For complete mini track submission details, see the call for papers page.

Publication opportunity Papers accepted for the conference will be published in the conference proceedings, subject to author registration. The proceedings for this conference are listed on the Thomson Reuters ISI Index to Scientific and Technical Proceedings (ISTP/ISI Proceedings), the Thomson Reuters ISI Index to Social Sciences & Humanities Proceedings (ISSHP) and the Thomson Reuters ISI Index to Social Sciences & Humanities Proceedings (ISSHP/ISI Proceedings). The proceedings of the European Conference on Information Warfare and Security (ECIW) are also indexed on InspectDirect
A selection of the best papers will have an opportunity to submit their work for publication in the prestigious International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics published by Inderscience UK (ISSN:1751-1911X)

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Updated 5 November 2009