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Welcome to the 1997 Information Survivability Workshop (ISW'97). Information survivability (IS) has become a new area of concern for DARPA and others in the research community. IS is more than security, more than safety, and more than fault tolerance. It is a combination of quality attributes that assures that even during a successful attack, the mission of the network, software, or service will continue.

The goal of the Workshop is to clearly define the issues associated with IS, and identify the research areas that are likely to contribute to this area. In the Call for Participation we encouraged participation of people with diverse backgrounds and interests including, but not limited to, researchers, practitioners, research sponsors, and buyers. We are very happy with the enthusiastic response we received and we have assembled a program that reflects the wide diversity of backgrounds and interests in the area of IS. We hope that this meeting is the first step towards the identification of a network of experts that will continue to collaborate and share results to the benefit of the entire community.

We limited the attendance to 50 participants and structured the workshop around two "themes" and each day will be dedicated to one of the themes. To have more time for discussions and exchanges among the participants, we have selected a very small number of speakers. We selected the speakers based on position statements that highlight the range of issues around each of the themes. This is no reflection on the quality of the other statements as we decided that for this first workshop we should explore the breadth of issues rather than focus on specific, narrower topics.

We wish to acknowledge the assistance of Mary-Kate Rada, of the IEEE Computer Society Staff, for her help with advance registrations and local arrangements. Tracey Tamules of the SEI staff assisted with on-site registrations.