Foreword from the Programme Chairs - STAST 2012

This volume comprises the proceedings of the second workshop on Socio-Technical Aspects of Security and Trust (STAST). The diversity of the topics covered in this proceedings reflect the vibrancy of the socio-technical research community within information security. Contributions range from HCIoriented research through organizational process design and decision making. Twelve papers were submitted of which six papers were judged to be of high quality accepted for presentation and publication. We should like to offer our thanks for the professionalism of the authors, reviewers, sub-reviewers and the program committee members. All papers were reviewed by at least three reviewers from the program committee, with the help of external reviewers.