PAKCON 2005 / call for papers

This is second round for our Call for Papers for PAKCON II. We have couple of speaking slots left for the PAKCON II, Pakistan’s Cyber Security Convention. It will be happening on 29th and 30th November, 2005 in Karachi, Pakistan.

If you are willing to speak at PAKCON and have an interesting paper to go along with, write an abstract of your paper and send it at cfp@pakcon.org.

TOPICS:  Topics for papers can be any of these or possibly anything else not way too off-topic:   

• Information Security

• Network and Vulnerability Analysis

• Penetration Testing

• Firewall Technologies

• Intrusion Detection and Prevention Technologies

• Denial-Of-Service Attacks and Countermeasures

• Encryption Technologies

• Honeypots/Honeynets

• (0) Zero-day Attacks

• Incident Response and Disaster Recovery

• Electronic Crimes Law

• GPRS and CDMA Security

• Phreaking

• Access Control and Authentication

• Viruses, Worms, and Trojans

• Wireless LAN and Bluetooth Security

• Malicious Code Analysis

• Analysis of Attacks against Networks and Machines

• OS Hardening

• File System Security

• Security in Heterogeneous and large-scale Environments

• Techniques for Developing Secure Systems

• Writing Secure Code

• Secure Application Development

TIMING:  Each speaker will be allotted a time slot of 1-hour including a 10-minute question-and-answer session.  If a presentation requires more time, the speaker should inform the organizers beforehand.

RESOURCES:  Any additional presentational requirements should be communicated well in advance to the organizers.  Speakers will be provided a microphone, a laptop on which their presentations will have
been saved and loaded, a multi-media projector and a reasonably large projector screen.

SPEAKERS:  Since PAKCON is a non-profit organization, unfortunately we will not be able pay any fees but will be able to provide travel expenses and accommodation.