Guest Article Guidelines
Version 1.5
Last Modified: 11/28/2005
Goals & Objectives
Provide a venue for the information security community to publish and
obtain up-to-date web security content.
Our readers are very important to WASC. The readers come from a wide
range of professional backgrounds and have a high expectation for
quality educational material. As such, WASC contributed articles are
not to be used as a venue for marketing purposes. Articles are assumed
op-ed, they should be succinct, and direct while presenting details and
solutions.
Outline
1. Article requirements
a. Article Content: Content should be on topic with
the overall WASC's goals.
b. Article Proposal: All writers that wish to contribute an article must send a formal.
proposal to the project leader, and articles mailing list.
c. Articles Format: All articles should be in the
WASC format upon handover.
Articles may contain references to commercial solutions, but should not be used
as a marketing venue
anywhere within the text or Author Bio section.
d. Article Timelines: Final article drafts should be handed in within 30 days of initial
public proposal for peer review.
e. Article Maintenance: Any editing or article changes must be made by the article author.
2. Review among Project Team
a. Peer review should take no longer then 2 weeks after the final draft has been sent
to the review team.
b. Draft adjustments will be made until accepted by the article author and at least
80% of review team.
c. All peer review team comments must be received within 7 days after a paper has been submitted
d. Only peer review members submitting feedback may cast a failed vote.
e. Votes must be received by the voting deadline date specified by the project leader or are otherwise void.
f. Failed votes may only be based off of previous feedback received during the feedback phase of peer review.
3. Post completion of project and release deliverables
a. Articles will be converted to the file formats as stated in the Final Deliverables section.
b. Articles will be posted on the WASC website
c. A public announcement will be made as stated in the WASC release guidelines
d. Articles will be assigned an audience classification
Example:
- System Administrator
- Security Professional/Consultant
- Architect
- Developer
- Quality Assurance
- IT Manager
Final Deliverables
Finished articles will be posted for public distribution through the
WASC web site. Articles will be converted to HTML format and use the
WASC standard website templates for presentation.
Licensing
A copy of the content license used by the web application security consortium may be found
here.
EXAMPLE ARTICLE TEMPLATE
<<-- Insert Title Here --->
By <<-- Insert Author Name here -->
<<-- Article content goes here -->
About the Author
<<---//
This will be a brief paragraph about the author which may include a
brief company description (if applicable) that should contain no sales
pitch or marketing hype (Example: The leader of Web Security). This
paragraph should be no more then 4 sentences.
Example:
John Smith has been involved in information security for the past 8
years and currently is employed at Acme Security as the Chief Cracking
Officer. Acme Security provides online business management software
and services to enable regulatory compliance, mitigate online risk
and improve the business value of websites. Our solutions help ebusiness,
marketing, legal, compliance, and IT departments put processes in place
to effectively manage their online operations with the same level of
control, effectiveness, and attention given to the rest of the
organization.
//-->
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