International Federation for Information Processing

WG 11.8 Events

Event Goals

WG 11.8 is continuing to engage the community in opportunities to publish and collaborate.  The WG 11.8 organizes a bi-annual workshop called the World Information Security in Education Workshop.

Event History

WG11.8 has worked to increase Information Assurance Education and Awareness for over two decades.  The events sponsored by the working group include:

  • Workshop at the IFIP/Sec 1995 in Cape town, South Africa. “Information Security Education – Current and Future Needs, Problems and Prospects, I”
  • Workshop at the IFIP/Sec 1996 in Samos, Greece, “Information Security Education – Current and Future Needs, Problems and Prospects, II”
  • Workshop at the IFIP/Sec 1997 in Copenhagen, Denmark, “Information Security Education – Current and Future Needs, Problems and Prospects, III”
  • Workshop at the IFIP/Sec 1998 on a boat on the Danube between Vienna, Austria and Budapest, Hungary, “Information Security Education – Current and Future Needs, Problems and Prospects, IV”
  • WISE1, 17-19 June 1999, Kista, Sweden. 80 international and national participants. Proceedings on 303 pages, publisher – Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, Stockholm University/Royal Institute of Technology on the behalf of International Federation for Information Processing, ISBN 91-7153-910-7, edited by Louise Yngström and Simone Fischer Hubner
  • WISE2, 12-14 July 2001, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia. 120 international and national participants. Proceedings on 332 pages publisher – School of Computer and Information Science, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia, on behalf of the International Federation for Information Processing, ISBN 0-7298-0498-4, edited by Helen Armstrong and Louise Yngström
  • WISE3, 26-28 June, 2003, Monterey, California, USA, international and national participants. Proceedings on 334 pages, publisher – Kluwer Academic Publishers, ISBN 1-4020-7478-6 edited by Cynthia Irvine and Helen Armstrong
  • WISE4, 18-20 May 2005, 40 international participants+20 Russian participants, proceedings on 281 pages, publisher – the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (State University), edited by Helen Armstrong and Natalia Miloslavskaya. ISBN 5-7262-0565-0.
  • Summer school IPICS2005 on Chios Island (Greece), July 2005.
  • IFIP TC-11 WG 11.1 & WG 11.8 Joint Workshop on Security Culture as part of Sec2006. Karlstad (Sweden), 22-24 May, 2006.
  • Summer school IPICS2006 in Leuven (Belgium), July 2006.
  • IFIP TC-11 WG 11.1 & WG 11.8 Joint Workshop on Security Culture as part of IFIP SEC 2007, 13-16 May, 2007 Johannesburg, SA
  • WISE5, 19-21 July 2007, West Point US Military Academy (USA). International and national participants. Proceeding on 148 pages, edited by Lynn Futcher and Ronald Dodge.
  • IFIP TC-11 WG 11.1 & WG 11.8 Joint Workshop as part of Sec2009. Pafos (Cyprus), May 18-20, 2009
  • WISE6, 27-31 July 2009, Bento Goncalves, Brazil. Held in conjunction with the IX World Conference on Computers in Education (IFIP). Proceeding edited by Lynn Futcher and Ronald Dodge.
  • IFIP TC-11: Joint Workshop ,17-18 May 2010, WG 11.1 & WG 11.8 with Human Aspects of Information Security and Assurance (HAISA) and Workshop on Digital Forensics and Incident Analysis (WDFIA), Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Proceeding edited by Nathan Clarke and Steven Furnell
  • IFIP TC-11 WG 11.8 ‘Best student Paper’, for IFIP Sec2010. Brisbane (Australia), September 20-24, 2010.
  • WISE7, 9-10 June 2011, Lucerne, Switzerland. Held in conjunction with IFIP SEC 2011. Proceeding edited by Lynn Futcher and Ronald Dodge.
  • IFIP TC-11 WG 11.8 ‘Best student Paper’, for IFIP Sec2012. Crete, Greece, 4-6 June, 2012.
  • WISE8 was held as a separate track at the IFIP SEC 2013 conference, 8-10 July 2013 in Auckland, New Zealand.
  • IFIP TC-11 WG 11.8 “Best student Paper”, for SEC2013. 8-10 July 2013, Auckland, New Zealand.
  • IFIP TC-11 WG 11.8 “Best student Paper”, for SEC2014. 2-4 June 2014, Marrakech, Morocco.
  • WISE9, 26-28 May 2015, Hamburg, Germany. Part of the 30th International Information Security Conferences IFIP SEC2015. Proceeding edited by Matt Bishop, Natalia Miloslavskaya and Marianthi Theocharidou.
  • IFIP TC-11 WG 11.8 “Best student Paper”, for SEC2015. 26-28 May 2015, Hamburg, Germany.
  • Summer school IPICS2015 in Lesvos (Greece), July 2015.
  • IFIP TC-11 WG 11.8 “Best student Paper”, for SEC2016. May 30th till June 1st, 2016, Ghent, Belgium.
  • Summer school IPICS2016 in Leuven (Belgium), July 2016.
  • WISE10, 29-31 May 2017, Rome, Italy.  Part of the 32nd International Information Security Confernces IFIP SEC2017.Proceedings Edited by Matt Bishop, Lynn Futcher, Natalia Miloslavskaya, and Marianthi Theocharidou.
  • IFIP TC-11 WG11.8 "Best Student Paper", fo SEC2017.  May 31, 2017, Rome Italy.
  • Wise 11, 18-21 September 2018, Poznan, Poland.  Part of the 24th World Computer Congress IFIP.  Proceedings Edited by Matt Bishop, Lynn Futcher, Natalia Miloslavskaya, and Marianthi Theocharidou.
  • WISE 12, 25-27 June 2019, Lisbon, Portugal.  In conjunction with the 34th IFIP International Conference on Infromation Security and Privacy Protection SEC 2019.  Proceedings Edited by Lynette Drevin, Marianthi Theocharidou
  • WISE 13, 21-23 September 2020, Maribor, Slovenia (virtual event).  In conjunction with the 35th IFIP International Conference on Infromation Security and Privacy Protection SEC 2020.  Proceedings Edited by Lynette Drevin, Sune Von Solms, and Marianthi Theocharidou