Welcome to the Third International Conference on Information Security and Ass- ance (ISA 2009).
ISA 2009 was the most comprehensive conference focused on the various aspects of advances in
information security and assurance. The concept of security and assurance is emerging rapidly
as an exciting new paradigm to provide reliable and safe life services. Our conference provides
a chance for academic and industry professionals to discuss recent progress in the area of
communication and networking including modeling simulation and novel applications associated
with the utilization and acceptance of computing devices and systems. ISA 2009 was a succ- sor
of the First International Workshop on Information Assurance in Networks (IAN 2007 Jeju-island
Korea December 2007) and the Second International Conference on Information Security and
Assurance (ISA 2008 Busan Korea April 2008). The goal of this conference is to bring
together researchers from academia and industry as well as practitioners to share ideas
problems and solutions relating to the multifaceted aspects of information technology. ISA 2009
contained research papers submitted by researchers from all over the world. In order to
guarantee high-quality proceedings we put extensive effort into reviewing the papers. All
submissions were peer reviewed by at least three Program Committee members as well as external
reviewers. As the quality of the submissions was quite high it was extremely difficult to
select the papers for oral presentation and publication in the proceedings of the conference.
