Traditionally, security in software has been thought to be something that can be easily added on as a patch, post-development, and sometimes even after the deployment of the software. According to the US-Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT), "most successful attacks result from targeting and exploiting known, non-patched software vulnerabilities and insecure software configurations, many of which are introduced during design and code." Hence, it is imperative that secure design, coding and testing principles as well as deployment and maintenance are thoroughly embedded in the software development lifecycle. At the same time, software security is very inter-disciplinary, as software is being developed for a variety of applications - web, Internet, database, single and distributed computer systems, etc.

In the above context, the First International Conference on Software Security brings together researchers, faculty, students and industry professionals who are experts in different domains of computer and information security, but all leading to the design, development, deployment and maintenance of secure software.

Papers must be of high quality, unpublished, and currently not accepted or under review by another conference, workshop, or journal.

Authors are invited to submit papers through the Conference Submission System by July 05, 2016. Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously or be under consideration for publication while being evaluated for this conference. The proceedings of the conference will be published by Computer Science Conference Proceedings in Computer Science & Information Technology (CS & IT) series (Confirmed).

Hard copy of the Proceedings will be distributed during the Conference. The soft Copy will be available on AIRCC Digital Library. Selected papers from ICSS 2016, after further revisions,will be published in the special issue of the following journal.

• International Journal of Computer Networks & Communications (IJCNC) - ERA Indexed

• International Journal of Network Security & Its Applications (IJNSA) - ERA Indexed

• International Journal On Cryptography And Information Security (IJCIS)

• International Journal of Security, Privacy and Trust Management ( IJSPTM)

• International journal of Software Engineering & Applications (IJSEA)