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ACM SIGSAC or SIGSAC is the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Security, Audit, and Control. , whose purpose is support of research and advanced education in Information security and Privacy.

SIGSAC mission is to develop the information security profession, primarily by sponsoring high quality research conferences and workshops. The SIG further fosters a community of researchers in the area, and recognizes excellence by sponsoring annual awards in the area which can be broadly defined as "life-time achievements in information security (defined broadly)." SIGSAC also supports high education in the area and recognizes leading PhD dissertations in the area. Since the growth of the Internet as a central computational paradigm, information security and privacy research has gained importance and momentum, and activities in the area have intensified; this happened around the middle of the 1990's (which is the time when the SIG started supporting conferences).

Areas of Research and Education
SIGSAC conferences cover all aspects of information security, computer and communication systems security, and data privacy; these area are of interest to academic research, to the information technology industry research and development, and to governments bodies. Next we characterize this large area of research based on its coverage: technologies, systems, areas of applicability, notions for analysis, and research methodologies.


 * Security technologies, such as risk analysis, authentication, cryptography, access control, authorization, intrusion detection, penetration test techniques, secure protocols, and  privacy techniques. These technologies are used to build defense against attackers, and to enable new applications where the protection, safety, or control which security and privacy provide are crucial.


 * Security systems: In various components and areas of computing: hardware, middleware, software design, operating systems, database systems, networks and distributed systems, Internet and the web, mobile systems and smartphones, Internet of Things, cyber-physical systems, and applications.


 * Areas/ domains where security applies. Nowadays most of activities in computation require security (and computation is extending beyond its traditional roles as well). Domains of study such as infrastructure: telecommunication networks, the world wide web, clouds, computers, mobile smartphones, and other things connected to the network; traditional information systems (in all areas of business, commerce, government, and human interactions); and modern activities involving computation (e.g., machine learning)). As well as utilities (in networks, computers, and moderns ecosystems such as mobile smartphones, vehicular networks, blockchains, and Internet of things),  handling security  in various special applications areas, and managing user and data privacy.


 * Subjects for research analysis: Security research may touch upon a variety of subjects such as confidentiality, integrity, availability, privacy, survivability, and anti-abuse. These may combine technologies, policies, legal issues, and inputs from other disciplines (e.g., cognition and psychology for user interface security) as contributing basic inputs from basic research as tools for the analysis.


 * Research methodologies: The span of research topics in the area requires various methodologies, such as theoretical foundations, conceptualization of notions, risk methodologies, mathematical proofs and use of formal methods, systems specifications and concrete designs, attacks and breaking into systems (and countermeasures against such attacks), and actual systems research experimentations, demonstrations, surveys, measurements, and case studies.

Conferences
SIGSAC has sponsored several annual conferences in its areas (see also ACM Digital Library page for SIGSAC )

General Security and Privacy Conferences:

 * CCS: ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security: A general conference covering all subareas of information security. It has been running annually since 1993 and is considered the top ACM conference in the area. It also hosts associated workshops on special subjects.


 * ASIACCS: ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security: A general conference on all subareas of information security which has been running annually since 2006 and takes place (with associated workshops) in the Asia Pacific region.

Area Specific Conferences:

 * SACMAT: ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies: An conference on access-control which runs since 1995.


 * WISEC: ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks: A wireless security conference which runs since 2008.


 * CODASPY: ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy: A security application oriented conference which runs from 2011.

Associated journal

 * "The ACM Transaction on Privacy and Security" (TOPS).

Awards and prizes
Since 2005 SIGSAC has sponsored two awards which are of the "life achievement research recognition" nature. The awards are presented at the annual CCS conference. These awards are currently the top ACM awards dedicated exclusively to information security and privacy.


 * SIGSAC Outstanding Innovation Award: This award is given for outstanding and innovative technical contributions to the field of computer and communication security that have had lasting impact in furthering or understanding the theory and/or development of commercial systems. The awardee is typically invited to present a keynote lecture at the CCS conference of the following year.


 * SIGSAC Outstanding Contribution Award: The award is given for significant contribution to the field of computer and communication security through fostering research and development activities, educating students, and such professional services as the running of professional societies and conferences.

SIGSAC Early Career Recognition
Since 2014, to further encourage higher education in its field, SIGSAC recognizes excellence in the work of recent PhD students whose research is in any of the areas of information security:


 * SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award: for Outstanding PhD Thesis in Computer and Information Security. This award recognizes excellent thesis research by doctoral candidates in the field of computer and information security. The winner and up to two runners-up will be recognized at the ACM CCS conference.