Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Information warfare and security : ECIW 2012

This year sees the 11th European Conference on Information Warfare and Security (ECIW 2012), which is hosted by the Institute Ecole Superieure en Informatique, Electronique et Automatique, Laval, France The Conference Chair is Eric Filiol from ESIEA, Laval, France and I am pleased to be the Programme Chair along with Laurent Beaudoin.

The Conference continues to bring together individuals working in the area of Information Warfare and Information Security in order to share knowledge and develop new ideas with their peers. The range of papers presented at the Conference will ensure two days of interesting discussions. The topics covered this year illustrate the depth of the information operations’ research area, with the subject matter ranging from the highly technical to the more strategic visions of the use and influence of information.

The opening keynote is given by Rainer Fahs, Chairman of the European Institute of Computer Antivirus Research (EICAR) on the topic of "Cyber warfare: Prospective aspects from the EICAR perspective".

With an initial submission of 90 abstracts, after the double blind, peer review process there are 42 papers published in these Conference Proceedings. These papers come from all parts of the globe including Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Iran, Japan, Malaysia, Portugal, South Africa, The Netherlands, Turkey, United Kingdom and the United States of America.

I wish you a most interesting conference and an enjoyable stay in Estonia.

Robert Erra

ESIEA

July 2012