Cipher Electronic Newsletter of the Technical Committe on    Security & Privacy A Technical Committee of the Computer Society of the IEEE  Electronic Issue (EI) 139,  July 18, 2017 Hilarie Orman,  Editor Sven Dietrich, Book Review Editor Sven Dietrich, Associate Editor Yong Guan, Calendar Editor

Contents:

• Letter from the Editor 
   

• Conference and Workshop Announcements

  • News, Commentary and Opinion

    • Award nominations due soon!
      

      The IEEE Cybersecurity Initiative is announcing the opening of the competition for two new awards:

      • The IEEE Cybersecurity Award for Practice
      • The IEEE Cybersecurity Award for Innovation

      These awards will recognize individuals who have generated transformative cybersecurity capabilities and concepts. They will be awarded for:

      Game-changing ideas that have substantially advanced, or have the potential to substantially advance, the practice of cybersecurity;

      Approaches for designing or building novel cybersecurity systems whose impact can be quantified in terms of cost, time, and/or effectiveness;

      Sustained leadership in cybersecurity research, policy, education, and/or enabling of best practices in implementation or engineering;

      Work accelerating tech transfer of cybersecurity products, toward the enabling of cost-aware, secure solutions.

      Winners receive a check in the amount of $1000 and a plaque commemorating their win. The IEEE thanks the MITRE corporation for their generous gift in support of this award.

      The following distinguished review board will select the winners:

      • Mark Maybury (chair), MITRE
      • Jonathan Katz (vice chair), Univ. of Maryland
      • Anup Ghosh, CEO Invincia
      • Robert Wisneieff, IBM
      • Donna Dodson, NIST
      • Radu Sion, Stony Brook University
      • Yoshi Kohno, Univ. of Washington

      Nominations Due: 1 August, 2017
      Decisions: 15 August, 2017
      Send nominations to cyberawards17@ieee.org, cover material described here: https://s3.amazonaws.com/cybersec-prod/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/11155157/IEEE-Award-Details.pdf

      The awards will be given out at IEEE SecDev 2017 in Boston, MA. https://secdev.ieee.org/2017/home/

    • NewsBits:  Announcements and correspondence from readers (please contribute!)

      • Uncle Sam in the Sky with Clouds
      • SCOTUS to Think About Cellphone Towers and Privacy
      • Summer Power "brown-outs" to be "Russky-Outs"?
      • Oz on Forefront of Re-Opening Crypto Wars
      • Our Fake Election?
      • North Korea, New Player in the Ransomware Game
      • New NIST Standard for Digital Identity Guidelines
      • Hacking As a Service
      • New Security Solution: Partnerships With the Enemy
      • DoD to start using STARTTLS option for email transport
      • Too Much Room at the Top

    • Book reviews from past Cipher issues

    • Conference Reports and Commentary from past Cipher issues

    • News items from past Cipher issues

   

  • Listing of academic positions available  by Cynthia Irvine
    

   

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