The 8th Layered Assurance Workshop (LAW) will be held in New Orleans, Louisiana, December 8-9, 2014. The LAW Organizing Committee in conjunction with Applied Computer Security Associates is pleased to announce that LAW will again be held as an affiliated workshop of the 30th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) December 8-12, 2014. ACSAC will be held at the Hyatt French Quarter, a New Orleans hotel located in the historic French Quarter. The offering of LAW as an ACSAC workshop affords an excellent opportunity to attend two stimulating and informative events in one trip. LAW has provided a forum for vital exchange, as well as a maturing source of information, focused on key issues relating to the effective and efficient modular construction and certification of assured systems from assured components. It is widely recognized that such an approach is the most promising way to achieve diverse and flexible systems that can be certified quickly and cost effectively. LAW is concerned with the theoretical, engineering, and certification challenges to be met before this goal can be fully realized. LAW concerns itself with the real-world needs as well as the fundamental problems of compositional assurance and the need for principles, methods, and techniques that can be applied to achieve the assurance necessary for security-critical, safety-critical, and mission-critical components and systems. This year we are encouraging speakers and paper contributors to reflect on assurance in cyber-physical systems, in keeping with ACSAC's theme. Panel sessions will include our invited speakers and other distinguished guests. For seven years the Layered Assurance Workshop has evolved and grown. Again this year LAW will comprise two full days of distinguished speakers, contributed papers, discussions, and panels. LAW attendees are encouraged to participate in ACSAC in addition to LAW. The conjunction of LAW and ACSAC provides increased opportunities for government, academic and industry participants to contribute in the forum of their choice. You are invited to put the dates for LAW and ACSAC on your calendar and to pass this announcement on to other colleagues that you think will be interested but who may not be on our distribution list. Please ask them to inform us of their interest.