The Northwest Security Symposium (NWSec) is an educational two day event, presented by the Grey Hat Group, which provides both a broad perspective and an in-depth look at leading topics in information assurance and cyber security. Concentrating on all aspects of computer or network security, NWSec seeks academic and professional papers from any level, offering novel or original research or application of research, for submission to the 2008 Symposium scheduled for February. The primary focus is on high-quality original research or application of research.  The research may be completed or a work-in-progress. Papers should have practical relevance to one of the aspects of design, development, implementation, or best-practices in information security.

Theoretical papers are encouraged to make a convincing argument for the practical significance of the results. Theory should be backed by illustrating its application in modern networked computer systems.
Authors of accepted conference papers will be subjected to an expedited peer review process. Authors are strongly encouraged to include a brief statement indicating how their conference paper fits well with the conference theme.

All accepted papers must be presented to an audience consisting of members from the University of Washington, industry professionals and representatives from government. Power Point slide decks must be submitted by accepted authors at least two weeks before the event. A multimedia presentation environment will be provided. Some alternate presentation equipment can be provided but must be requested at least 4 weeks in advance. Accepted papers will be collected and published in the conference proceedings.

* Designing Business Models with Security Requirements
* Digital Forensics
* Incident Response and Prevention
* Legal Issues
* Covert Data Channels
* Mobile/ Wireless Security
* Network Security
* Denial of Service
* Honeynets
* Zero Day Exploits

Authors are asked to follow the Summary of ACM SIG Proceedings Format for all submissions.
Please send only PDF or MS Word formatted files. Files must be below 2MB in size.
Compressed files will be accepted as long as a popular compression method is used.
Authors who have larger then 2MB files may still submit by contacting the submission committee, at the address below,
and asking for alternative submission information. Papers must be received by March 14th 2008.
Accepted papers will be presented at the conference and published in the conference proceedings.
For submissions with multiple authors all authors must submit identical papers from their respective email accounts.
Authors who are accepted must register with the provided entry no later then March 31, 2008.

Please send all submissions to greyhat@u.washington.edu.