ACM SIGSAC
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| ACM SIGSAC | |
|---|---|
| Name | ACM SIGSAC |
| Type | Professional society |
| Founded | 1970s |
| Headquarters | New York City |
| Region served | International |
| Parent organization | Association for Computing Machinery |
ACM SIGSAC ACM SIGSAC is the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Security, Audit and Control, serving researchers and practitioners in information security, computer security, privacy, cryptography, and assurance. Founded within the Association for Computing Machinery ecosystem during the expansion of computing societies alongside organizations such as IEEE Computer Society, USENIX, Internet Engineering Task Force, International Organization for Standardization, and National Institute of Standards and Technology, the group connects members across academic institutions like Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, University of Cambridge, Carnegie Mellon University, and University of California, Berkeley and industry laboratories including Bell Labs, Microsoft Research, Google Research, IBM Research, and HP Labs.
History
SIGSAC emerged amid contemporaneous developments such as the ARPANET evolution, the Multics project, the RAND Corporation studies on security, the Wassenaar Arrangement discussions on export controls, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act legislative era, and the rise of conferences like Black Hat and DEF CON. Early leadership interacted with figures and institutions associated with Digital Equipment Corporation, Xerox PARC, SRI International, Sandia National Laboratories, and policy fora like European Union committees and NIST workshops. Milestones paralleled publications from authors affiliated with MITRE Corporation, Bell Labs, Cornell University, Princeton University, and University of Oxford, and developments in standards from IETF working groups, ISO/IEC JTC 1 panels, and W3C security initiatives.
Organization and Membership
SIGSAC operates within the governance model common to ACM units, analogous to structures found in ACM SIGGRAPH, ACM SIGCOMM, ACM SIGPLAN, ACM SIGMOD, and ACM SIGMETRICS. Its volunteer leadership has included committee chairs whose careers intersect with institutions such as Bell Labs, Microsoft Research, Google Research, IBM Research, HP Labs, Cisco Systems, Intel Corporation, Amazon Web Services, Facebook (Meta) Research, and universities including Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University, University of California, Berkeley, and Princeton University. Membership categories reflect professional, student, and institutional participation seen in organizations like IEEE, USENIX, ACM-W, ACM SIGCHI, and ACM SIGSOFT. SIGSAC collaborates with regional bodies such as ACM Europe, ACM India, ACM SIGCAS, ACM SIGACT, and industry consortia including OWASP, CIS, Cloud Security Alliance, IETF, and ISOC.
Conferences and Events
SIGSAC is associated with flagship events comparable to ACM CCS and coordinates workshops and symposia akin to NDSS, Usenix Security Symposium, RSA Conference, Black Hat USA, DEF CON, IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, Financial Cryptography and Data Security, and Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium. Regional and topical venues mirror partnerships with conferences like ACM AsiaCCS, ACM CCS Asia, ACM CCS Europe, ACM CCS Africa, ACM CCS Latin America, and colocated workshops similar to HotNets, SIGCOMM Workshop on Security, WPES, SPW, NDSS Workshops, and Crypto Forum Research Group meetings. Special sessions and panels have included speakers from NSA, GCHQ, European Commission, US Department of Homeland Security, ENISA, and research labs at Bell Labs, SRI International, and Sandia National Laboratories.
Publications and Communications
SIGSAC curates proceedings and newsletters in the spirit of scholarly outlets such as Communications of the ACM, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Journal of Cryptology, ACM Transactions on Information and System Security, IEEE Security & Privacy, Journal of Computer Security, Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems, and ACM Computing Surveys. It disseminates peer-reviewed papers, technical reports, tutorials, and panel summaries produced by authors from Stanford University, MIT, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, Princeton University, Cornell University, ETH Zurich, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, and Tsinghua University. Communication channels mirror those used by ACM Digital Library, arXiv, IEEE Xplore, Google Scholar, and preprint servers, and SIGSAC engages with editorial boards similar to those of ACM TOCS, ACM TISSEC, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, and ACM Computing Surveys.
Awards and Recognition
SIGSAC recognizes contributions through awards comparable to honors from ACM A.M. Turing Award, IEEE John von Neumann Medal, Gödel Prize, ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow, ACM Distinguished Member, and prizes paralleling Test of Time Award and Best Paper Award traditions at ACM CCS, IEEE S&P, Usenix Security, NDSS, and Crypto. Recipients often hail from institutions such as Stanford University, MIT, Carnegie Mellon University, University of California, Berkeley, Princeton University, Cornell University, ETH Zurich, UC Santa Barbara, University of Cambridge, and corporate labs including Bell Labs, Microsoft Research, Google Research, IBM Research, and Amazon.
Education and Outreach
SIGSAC conducts tutorials, summer schools, and curricular initiatives analogous to programs by Computer Science Teachers Association, CRA, AAAI, IEEE Education Society, INFORMS, European Network and Information Security Agency outreach, and university continuing education efforts at Stanford Center for Professional Development, MIT Professional Education, UC Berkeley Extension, Carnegie Mellon University CyLab, and Oxford Internet Institute. Outreach partners have included OWASP, ISOC, Cloud Security Alliance, FIRST, SANS Institute, IETF, and national academies and laboratories such as NIST, NSA, GCHQ, Sandia National Laboratories, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.