Following on from last year's successful event, the aim of the conference is to draw a wide range of participants from the national and international research community as well as current practitioners within the fields of computer security and computer forensics. The conference will be organised into a number of tracks led by both academics and practitioners, and will include refereed paper presentations, panel discussions and invited talks based on the submissions received and the interests expressed.

Computer security aims to preserve system integrity whilst computer forensics aims to explain the cause for an event or set of events. Computer security is an established field of computer science, whilst forensic computing is an emergent area. Increasingly, computer security will involve forensic investigation techniques, and vice versa, due to the degree of overlap in raw material used by both fields. Therefore, both fields have much to learn from each other. The purpose of this conference is to bring together researchers and practitioners to present and share the latest developments in research and applications in both these fields.

The Keynote Speaker at this year's conference is Merseyside Police Chief Constable Bernard Hogan-Howe.

The conference is taking place at the Byrom Street Campus in the Peter Jost Lecture Theatre (registration and main venue) and room 329 for the practitioner talks.

Informal welcome - Liverpool History Tour, Wednesday 11th July. Meeting in Dr Duncan's Pub, St John's Lane, Queen's Square, Liverpool at 7pm and leaving at approximately 7.30pm. Dr Duncan's is approximately 100 metres from Lime Street Station (map). The tour is being conducted by John Haggerty (photo).

 For more information on ACSF 2007, please contact the conference Chairs.

ACSF 2007 Programme.

Abstracts of the academic papers to be presented at ACSF 2007.