The annual Privacy, Security and Trust research conference has quickly established itself as a leading forum for the presentation and discussion of the latest challenges and solutions covering a wide range of PST topics. The PST conference is unique in its broad approach including examining the issues from both the research and practice perspectives, encouraging multidisciplinary research, and fostering collaboration between academe, the private sector and government.
The theme for PST2008 is “privacy, security and trust - enabling innovation”. Today new technologies and new applications will not be widely adopted until it can be demonstrated that the security of the underlying ICT infrastructure and the privacy of information being processed are both protected. Only then will users trust and therefore use these innovations and then, and only then, will the developers and society as a whole reap the benefits of the innovation. Without breakthroughs in PST technology the “bad guys” will continue to thwart our best efforts to convince the public that cyber space is a safe place to do business. PST2008 provides a forum for researchers world wide to unveil their work in PST and to show how we can use this work to enable innovation and keep ahead of the “dark side” of the Internet.
The PST2008 conference will present a stimulating mix of keynote speakers, research papers, workshops, panel discussions and social events that facilitate:

• Meeting the global privacy, security and trust communities
• Promoting multi-disciplinary research
• Networking with fellow researchers and professionals
• Promoting collaboration between academe, industry and the public sector
• Posing important questions
• Defining technical, legal and social challenges
• Exposing and sharing current research
• Discussing the tools practitioners need researchers to develop
• Identifying the gaps and tackling the big issues - the exciting, deep challenges yet to be met in PST research
• Staying abreast of the global threats and risks in cyberspace
• International sharing and cooperation

As in the past, PST2008 will continue to feature high-quality research papers, whose topics include, but are NOT limited to, the following:

• Critical Infrastructure Protection
• Privacy Preserving/Enhancing Technologies
• Identity and Trust management
• Network and Wireless Security
• Operating Systems Security
• Intrusion Detection Systems and Technologies
• Secure Software Development and Architecture
• Representations and Formalizations of Trust in Electronic and Physical Social Systems
• PST Challenges in e-Services, e.g. e-Health, e-Government, e-Banking, e-Commerce, and e-Marketing
• Information Filtering, Recommendation, Reputation and Delivery Technologies, Spam Handling Technologies
• Trust Technologies, Technologies for Building Trust in e-Business Strategy
• Observations of PST in Practice, Society, Policy and Legislation
• Digital Rights Management
• Human Computer Interaction and PST
• Implications of, and Technologies for, Lawful Surveillance
• Biometrics, National ID Cards, Identity Theft
• PST and Web Services/SOA
• Privacy, Traceability, and Anonymity
• Trust and Reputation in Self-Organizing Environments
• Anonymity and Privacy vs. Accountability
• Access Control and Capability Delegation

As a result the PST2008 conference will be of special interest to members of the private sector, the public sector and academe including:

• Privacy, security and trust researchers and research administrators
• Decision makers in the private and public sectors
• Public and private sector policy makers
• Developers of ICT security and privacy enhancing products and tools
• Representatives of regulating authorities and industry associations
• ICT security and privacy specialists
• Standards and Compliance community
• Public sector managers
• Policy makers / corporate leaders
• Legal community
• Privacy and Security Officers
• Public safety and public health officials
• Public Safety and Emergency Management community
• Military and Law Enforcement communities
• Risk managers
• ICT vendors, manufacturers, developers and distributors

PST2008 will be held in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. Fredericton is the capital city of the province of New Brunswick. Fall is an especially beautiful time of year in Atlantic Canada so plan to spend a few extra days and enjoy the many unique tourist attractions the area has to offer. The conference venue is the Delta Fredericton Hotel situated on the banks of the St. John River, one of North America’s great rivers. Please plan to join us for PST2008!