Subject: [mile] FW: ACM Workshop on Information Sharing and Collaborative Security (WISCS 2014)

From: "Panos Kampanakis (pkampana)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 13:43:35 +0000

I apologize for the wide distribution.
Panos
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CALL FOR PAPERS

FIRST ACM WORKSHOP ON INFORMATION SHARING AND COLLABORATIVE SECURITY (WISCS 2014)     
https://sites.google.com/site/wiscs2014/
Held in conjunction with 21st ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), Scottsdale, Arizona, USA. 
Nov. 3, 2014

Sharing of security related information is believed to greatly enhance the ability of organizations to defend themselves against sophisticated attacks. If one organization detects a breach the automated sharing of observed security indicators (such as IP addresses, domain names etc.) provide valuable, actionable information to others. Through analyzing shared data it seems possible to get much better insights into emerging attacks. Sharing higher level intelligence about campaigns, threat actors and mitigations is also of great interest. Both in the US and the EU there are major efforts underway to strengthen information sharing.

Yet there are a number of technical and policy challenges to realizing this vision. Which information exactly should be shared? How can privacy and confidentiality be protected? How can we create high-fidelity intelligence from shared data without getting overwhelmed by false positives?
The first Workshop on Information Sharing and Collaborative Security (WISCS 2014) aims to bring together experts and practitioners from academia, industry and government to present innovative research, case studies, and legal and policy issues. Topics of interest for the workshop include, but are not limited to:

   Collaborative intrusion detection
   Case studies for information sharing
   Domain name and IP address blacklisting 
   Collaborative approaches to spear‐phishing and DDoS attacks
   Data deidentification
   Privacy and confidentiality
   Cryptographic protocols for collaborative security
   Scalability of security analysis on shared data
   Ontologies and standards for sharing security data 
   Human factors in collaboration
   Policy and legal issues
   Surveillance issues 
   Trust models 
   Attacks on information sharing
   Economics of security collaboration

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission due:        July 1, 2014
Author notification:              August 10, 2014
Camera read copies due:   August 24, 2014 
Workshop:                               Nov 3, 2014. 

STEERING COMMITTEE
Tomas Sander, HP
Richard Struse, DHS
Moti Yung, Columbia University and Google 

PROGRAM CHAIR
Tomas Sander, HP

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Matt Bishop, UC Davis
Travis Breaux, Carnegie Mellon University  
Sarah Brown, Fox-IT   
Jerry Bryant, Microsoft
Eric Burger, Georgetown University
Scott Coull, Redjack
Marc Dacier
Freddy Dezeure, CERT-EU
Carol Fung, Virginia Commonwealth University    
Panos Kampanikis, CISCO  
Florian Kerschbaum, SAP   
Susan Landau, Worcester Polytechnic Institute     
Tom Millar, US CERT     
Kathleen Moriarty, EMC
Eric Osterweil, Verisign
Christos Papadopoulos, Colorado State  University    
Vern Paxson, UC Berkeley and ICSI
Benny Pinkas, Bar Ilan University   
Phillip Porras, SRI  
Ravi Sandhu, UT San Antonio   
Stuart Shapiro, MITRE   
Johannes Ullrich, SANS    
Paul Vixie, Farsight Security    
Bulent Yener, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

PAPER SUBMISSIONS
Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Regular submissions should be at most 10 pages in the ACM double-column format including bibliography, but excluding well-marked appendices, and at most 12 pages total. Committee members are not required to read the appendices, and so the paper should be intelligible without them. Submissions should not be anonymized. 

Submissions are to be made to the EasyChair submission web site at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wiscs2014 .  You will be requested to upload the file of your paper (in PDF format only). Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. Papers must be received by the deadline of July 1, 2013 to be considered. Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent to authors by August 10, 2013. The camera ready versions must be prepared by August 24, 2014 (firm). Proceedings of the workshop will be published by ACM on a CD, available to the workshop attendees. Papers will be included in the ACM Digital Library, with a specific ISBN. Each accepted paper must be presented by an author, who will have to be registered by the early-bird registration deadline.

CONTACT
Please contact the program chair Tomas Sander ([email-masked]) with any questions.