Monday 6 December and Tuesday 7 December, 2010, Austin, Texas, USA

The Fourth Annual Layered Assurance Workshop (LAW 2010)

Workshop Description   Workshop Committee   Workshop Program   Registration and Hotel   Contacts

This will be the fourth in the Layered Assurance Workshop (LAW) series, sponsored by Air Force Cryptographic Modernization Program Office (CMPO) and Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). Proceedings Check this web site after the Workshop for links to the proceedings. Access proceedings of previous LAWs from the main LAW web page. Venue The Fourth Layered Assurance Workshop will be held at the Four Seasons Austin, on Lady Bird Lake (aka "Town Lake"), in Austin, Texas.

Workshop Background and Description

The Fourth Layered Assurance Workshop (LAW) will be held in Austin, Texas, December 6-7, 2010. The LAW Organizing Committee in conjunction with Applied Computer Security Associates is pleased to have LAW as an affiliated workshop of the 26th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) December 6-10, 2010. If you have attended a previous meeting of the LAW we believe you will find this year's LAW and ACSAC to provide a greater opportunity for exposure to the latest developments in applied computer security.

LAW has provided a forum for vital exchange, as well as a maturing source of information, focused on key issues relating to the effective and efficient modular construction and certification of assured systems from assured components. It is widely recognized that such an approach is the most promising way to achieve diverse and flexible systems that can be certified quickly and cost effectively. LAW is concerned with the theoretical, engineering, and certification challenges to be met before this goal can be fully realized.

The Workshop concerns itself with the fundamental problems of “compositional assurance” and with a need for principles, methods, and techniques that can be applied to achieve the assurance necessary for security-critical, safety-critical, and mission-critical components and systems.

For the past three years, the Layered Assurance Workshop has grown and evolved. The first LAW in 2007 took an exploratory approach, relying heavily on the participants' input to establish the agenda. The second LAW in 2008 was attended by approximately 80 individuals representing more than 30 distinct organizations. In that Workshop more of the program was established in advance, with several keynote talks chosen from responses to an open invitation, followed by breakout sessions on diverse topics. The third LAW comprised two thematic days with a common structure: morning keynote talks, afternoon panels and breakout sessions. The theme of the first day was programmatic needs of government, while that of the second day was research and development on the problems of layered assurance.

This year, the fourth LAW will include talks by distinguished speakers, panels, discussions and technical training. Attendees are encouraged to participate in ACSAC in addition to LAW. The conjunction of LAW and ACSAC provides increased opportunities for academic and industry participants to contribute in the forum of their choice. Please pass along information about LAW to colleagues who may be interested.

The workshop is unclassified and will be open to all attendees. Please see the ACSAC web site for more information about ACSAC. As a result of the transition to make LAW a permanent ACSAC workshop, there is now a LAW registration fee. This year, to ease the transition for attendees, the LAW sponsors have generously provided a sponsorship for early registrants.

Hotel Reservations and Workshop Registration

Workshop Program

Monday December 6

Tuesday December 7

LAW Organizing Committee

Contact: Workshop Chairman