ISSA 2012

Name	Company/Affiliation	Country
Hanifa Abdullah	University of South Africa	South Africa
Sampson Asare	Computer Science Department, University of Botswana	Botswana
Joachim Biskup	University of Dortmund	Germany
Elmarie Biermann	Private	South Africa
Hettie Booysen	Private	South Africa
Reinhardt Botha	Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University	South Africa
Jacqui Chetty	University of Johannesburg	South Africa
KP Chow	University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
Stelvio Cimato	University of Milano	Italy
Nathan Clarke	University of Plymouth	UK
Marijke Coetzee	University of Johannesburg	South Africa
Philip Craiger	University of Central Florida	USA
Evan Dembsky	University of South Africa	South Africa
Paul Dowland	University of Plymouth	UK
Lynette Drevin	North-West University	South Africa
Stelios Dristas	Athens University	Greece
David Ellefsen	University of Johannesburg	South Africa
Jan Eloff	University of Pretoria	South Africa
Mariki Eloff	University of South Africa	South Africa
Sheikh Muhammad Farhan	University of Engineering and Technology	Pakistan
Eduardo Fernandez	Florida Atlantic University	USA
Simone Fischer-Hubner	Karlstad University	Sweden
Stephen Flowerday	University of Fort Hare	South Africa
Steven Furnell	University of Plymouth	UK
Dieter Gollmann	TU Hamburg-Harburg	Germany
Stefanos Gritzalis	University of the Aegean	Greece
Talania Grobler	University of Johannesburg	South Africa
Marthie Grobler	CSIR	South Africa
Barry Irwin	Rhodes University	South Africa
Christian Damsgaard Jensen	Technical University of Denmark	Denmark
Erland Jonsson	University of Gothenburg	Sweden
Sokratis Katsikas	University of the Aegean	Greece
Anne Kayem	University of Cape Town	South Africa
Elmarie Kritzinger	University of South Africa	South Africa
Hennie Kruger	North-West University	South Africa
Michael Kyobe	University of Cape Town	South Africa
Les Labuschagne	University of Johannesburg	South Africa
Stefan Lindskog	Karlstad University	Sweden
Dennis Longley	Queensland University of Technology	Australia
Buks Louwrens	Nedbank	South Africa
Marianne Loock	University of South Africa	South Africa
Svetla Nikova	University of Twente	The Netherlands
Kennedy Njenga	University of Johannesburg	South Africa
Martin Olivier	University of Pretoria	South Africa
Rolf Oppliger	eSECURITY Technologies	Switzerland
Sylvia Osborn	University of Western Ontario	Canada
Keshnee Padaychee	University of South Africa	South Africa
Mauricio Papa	University of Tulsa	USA
Guenther Pernul	University of Regensburg	Germany
Dalenca Pottas	Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University	South Africa
Hartmunt Pohl	Bonn-Rhine-Sieg University	Germany
Laurette Pretorius	University of South Africa	South Africa
Indrajit Ray	Colorado State University	USA
Andrew Rutherford	Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University	South Africa
Reijo Savola	VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland	Finland
Elme Smith	University of South Africa	South Africa
Adrie Stander	University of Cape Town	South Africa
Bobby Tait	University of Johannesburg	South Africa
Barend Taute	CSIR	South Africa
Stephanie Teufel	University of Fribourg	Switzerland
Bill Tsoumas	Athens University	Greece
Ulrich Ultes Nitsche	University of Fribourg	Switzerland
Alta Van der Merwe	CSIR	South Africa
Namosha Veersamy	CSIR	South Africa
Hein Venter	University of Pretoria	South Africa
Rossouw von Solms	Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University	South Africa
Basie von Solms	University of Johannesburg	South Africa
Edgar Weippl	Secure Business Austria	Austria
Stephen Wolthusen	Norwegian Information Security Lab	Norway
Louise Yngstrom	Stockholm University	Sweden
Marek Zielinski	SAP Research	South Africa
Alf Zugenmaier	Munich University	Germany

(Reviewer list updated 5 April 2011)

Review process

ISSA uses a double blind peer-review process to ensure the quality of submissions before acceptance. Authors initially submit abstracts to determine if the paper meets the goals and fits into the theme of the conference. The ISSA Program Committee assesses each submission for relevance and fit. Authors are then notified whether their abstracts were accepted, and if so, invited to submit a full paper for peer review.

On the due date, authors submit full papers, anonymised by the authors for the double blind review process. Each paper goes through an administrative review to confirm that the paper conforms to the specifications. If a paper does not meet the requirements, the author is asked to resubmit the paper.

A Review Committee (the list shown above) is invited to participate, consisting of both local and international experts in the field of Information Security. A process is followed by the Program Committee to allocate papers to reviewers based on their area of expertise. Reviewers are subject matter experts, of which over 50% are international. Reviewers usually have 5 or 6 categories that they are willing to review against. Each reviewer will establish the number of papers they can review in a specific time period and are allowed to bid on the papers they want to review. An automated process allocated papers to each reviewer according to their preferences.

Each paper is reviewed by a minimum of two reviewers in a double blind review process. Papers are reviewed and rated on a 10 point system with 1 being poor and 10 being excellent as follows:
• Originallity (1-10)
• Significance (1-10)
• Technical quality (1-10)
• Relevance (1-10)
• Presentation (1-10)
• Overall Rating (1-10)

Reviewers’ confidence in their own rating is also taken into account by the algorithm that calculates the final score. Reviewers are encouraged to make anonymous suggestions to the author(s) of the paper.

Based on the final score (1-10), a paper with 5 or below points can be recommended for a poster/research-in-progress session and a 9 to 10 point paper can be put in the “best paper” category. An acceptance rate of between 30% and 40% is expected for the conference.

Authors are notified of the outcome of the review process which includes the anonymous suggestions and recommendations of the reviewers. Authors then have to submit the final version of the paper that will then be included in the formal conference proceedings. The proceedings are published electronically in IEEE Explore as well as on a CD with an ISBN number. All proceedings from all previous ISSA conferences are also available here.