The AIS Special Interest Group on Information Security and Privacy (SIGSEC) is pleased to announce its nineteenth annual Workshop on Information Security and Privacy (WISP) to be held pre-ICIS on Sunday, December 15, 2024, in-person at Bangkok, Thailand. This workshop is a premier research forum for the leading researchers, practitioners, and doctoral students interested in information security, privacy, ethics, and trust to exchange ideas and collaborate with the members of the SIGSEC community and others. We invite individuals to submit research articles, case studies, position papers, research-in-progress, methodology papers, and panel discussion proposals that address all interesting aspects of information security, assurance, and privacy, including but not limited to:

• Socio-technical analysis of security and privacy 
• Cultural issues in information security and privacy
• Behavioral issues in information security (e.g., insider threat)
• IT risk analysis, threat assessment and incident response
• Penetration analysis of vulnerabilities and risk exposure
• Security and privacy in e-government, organizations, and social networks
• Impact of cybersecurity on citizens and national security
• Digital forensics
• Security analysis, machine learning, artificial intelligence
• Deepfakes, dis-/misinformation, online deception, and multimodal data quality analysis
• Bright and dark side of AI; security, privacy technology and tools
• Legal, societal, and ethical issues in high tech. crime
• Cybersecurity education, pedagogy, and skill development
• Cybercrime, cyber threat intelligence, detection and mitigation
• Future advances in information security and privacy

All submitted papers undergo a double-blind peer-review process. Please submit your papers using our conference submission system at https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=wisp2024. All submissions should be in Microsoft Word using the workshop template only, with no author names or other identification in the manuscript file, including document properties and tracked changes (blind the submission, please). Please use the WISP2024 style for your paper and references. All authors should be prepared to review 1-2 other papers. Completed research and case study papers should be limited to 15 pages (including appendices but excluding references). Research-in-progress papers should be limited to eight pages (including appendices but excluding references). Panel proposals should be limited to three pages. Final camera-ready manuscripts of accepted submissions should include author names, email, and affiliation. Questions about submissions should be emailed to philip.menard@utsa.edu with WISP2024 in the subject line. WISP is a supportive and collegial workshop and encourages doctoral research. Notable papers authored (or co-authored) by Ph.D. students may be nominated for awards. High-quality review feedback is one of the hallmarks of this workshop, and top reviews are also recognized.

DATES

• Submission Deadline: September 30, 2024 October 7, 2024
• Notification of Acceptance: October 27, 2024
• Revised, Camera ready Document: December 5, 2024
• Workshop Date: December 15, 2024

WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS

• Philip Menard, The University of Texas at San Antonio
• Greg Bott, The University of Alabama
• Andy Green, Kennesaw State University
• Shuyuan Mary Ho Metcalfe, Florida State University

AIS SIGSEC Leadership

• Philip Menard (President), The University of Texas at San Antonio
• Greg Bott (President-elect), The University of Alabama
• Alexandra Durcikova (Secretary), University of Oklahoma
• Bryan Hammer (Treasurer), University of Montana
• Andy Green (At-Large Director), Kennesaw State University
• Shuyuan Mary Ho Metcalfe (Past President), Florida State University

Executive Program Committee

• May Bantan, Kennesaw State University
• Yves Barlette, Montpellier Business School
• Mahesh Boodraj, Boise State University
• Michael Curry, Oregon State University
• Gurpreet Dhillon, University of North Texas
• Adeline Frenzel-Piasentin, University of Augsburg
• Saurabh Gupta, Kennesaw State University
• Matthew Jensen, University of Oklahoma
• Anjali Kaushik, MDI Gurgaon
• Herb Mattord, Kennesaw State University
• Arunabha Mukhopadhyay, IIM Lucknow
• DeJarvis Oliver, North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University
• Daniel Pienta, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
• Jean-Loup Richet, Sorbonne business school
• Mary B. Sumner, University of Oklahoma
• Tawei (David) Wang, DePaul University

Committee Members

• Gunjan Batra, Kennesaw State University
• Steven Furnell, University of Nottingham
• Hwee-Joo Kam, University of Tampa
• Mark Keith, Brigham Young University
• Kent Marett, Mississippi State University
• Sean Maynard, The University of Melbourne
• Charles McElroy, Cleveland State University
• Gregory Moody, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
• Trevor Moores, Baruch College/CUNY
• Sumantra Sarkar, SUNY Binghamton
• Paolo Spagnoletti, Luiss University
• Carlos Torres, Baylor University
• Christina Wagner, University of Augsburg
• Tianjian Zhang, California State University Dominguez Hills
• Lina Zhou, UNC Charlotte

For more information, please go to https://cybersecurity.fsu.edu/wisp/.