IEEE VIS 2014 http://ieeevis.org/ VizSec 2014 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Co-located with IEEE VIS 2014 www.vizsec.org The 11th Visualization for Cyber Security (VizSec) is a forum that brings together researchers and practitioners from academia, government, and industry to address the needs of the cyber security community through new and insightful visualization and analysis techniques. VizSec provides an excellent venue for fostering greater exchange and new collaborations on a broad range of security- and privacy-related topics. VizSec will be held in Paris, France on November 10, 2014 in conjunction with IEEE VIS. Important research problems often lie at the intersection of disparate domains. Our focus is to explore effective, scalable visual interfaces for security domains, where visualization may provide a distinct benefit, including computer forensics, reverse engineering, insider threat detection, cryptography, privacy, preventing user assisted attacks, compliance management, wireless security, secure coding, and penetration testing in addition to traditional network security. Human time and attention are precious resources. We are particularly interested in visualization and interaction techniques that effectively capture the insights of human analysts so that further processing may be handled by machines, freeing analysts for other tasks. For example, a malware analyst might use a visualization system to analyze a new piece of malicious software that facilitates generating a signature for future machine processing. When appropriate, research that incorporates multiple data sources, such as network packet captures, firewall rule sets and logs, DNS logs, web server logs, and/or intrusion detection system logs, is particularly desirable. TECHNICAL PAPERS Full papers describing novel contributions in security visualization are solicited. Papers may present techniques, applications, practical experience, theory, analysis, or experiments and evaluations. We encourage the submission of papers on technologies and methods that promise to improve cyber security practices, including, but not limited to: Situation awareness and/or understanding Incident handling including triage, exploration, correlation, and response Computer forensics Recording and reporting results of investigations Reverse engineering and malware analysis Multiple data source analysis Analyzing information requirements for computer network defense Evaluation and/or user testing of VizSec systems Criteria for assessing the effectiveness of cyber security visualizations (whether from a security goal perspective or a human factors perspective) Modeling system and network behavior Modeling attacker and defender behavior Studying risk and impact of cyber attacks Predicting future attacks or targets Security metrics and education Software security Mobile application security Social networking privacy and security Accepted papers will appear in the ACM Digital Library as part of the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series, and will be publicly available in the ACM Digital Library one week prior to the conference start date. DATA If you do not have real-world data to demonstrate your visualization, you may be interested in looking at the VAST Challenge data sets. SUBMISSION Papers Papers should be at most 8 pages including the bibliography and appendices. Committee members are not required to read the appendices or any pages past the maximum. Submissions not meeting these guidelines will be rejected without consideration of their merit. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the conference. Formatting The VizSec proceedings will be published by the ACM. Submissions must the ACM SIG Proceedings Templates. If you are using LaTeX, please use "Option 2: LaTeX2e - Tighter Alternate style" for your submission. Word or LaTeX templates are available to download at: http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates Authors should apply ACM Computing Classification categories and terms. The full classiciation scheme is available at: http://www.acm.org/about/class/1998 ACM invites authors to submit an image representation of their article. The image must be selected from the article body and can be any of the following: art, graphic, table, figures, etc. (Image files are to be as square as possible, 100x100 ppi and in jpg format.) Authors must supply a caption with the image. The caption length should be no more than 512 characters. Submission Submit papers and posters using EasyChair at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vizsec2014 IMPORTANT DATES All deadlines are 5:00 PM PST. Papers Aug 01, 2014: Submission deadline for papers Sep 05, 2014: Author notification for papers Sep 26, 2014: Camera-ready submission Oct 27, 2014: Papers available in ACM Digital Library Nov 10, 2014: VizSec 2014 in Paris, France COMMITTEE General Chair: Kirsten Whitley, US Department of Defense Program Chair: Sophie Engle, University of San Francisco Publications Chair: Lane Harrison, Tufts University Local Chair: Nicolas Prigent, Supélec Website Chair: John Goodall, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Program Committee David Barrera, Carleton University Daniel Best, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Gregory Conti, US Military Academy at West Point Gustavo de los Reyes, AT&T Ron Dilley, UberAdmin David Ebert, Purdue University Alex Endert, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Rob Erbacher, Army Research Laboratory Fabian Fischer, University of Konstanz Deborah Frincke, US Department of Defense Carrie Gates, Dell John Gerth, Stanford University Jörn Kohlhammer, Fraunhofer IGD Tim Leschke, US Department of Defense and Johns Hopkins University Celeste Lyn Paul, Department of Defense Raffael Marty, PixlCloud Chris Muelder, University of California Davis Stephen North, Graphviz Joe Parry, Cambridge Intelligence Elisha Peterson, JHU Applied Physics Laboratory Nicolas Prigent, Supélec Danny Quist, MIT Lincoln Laboratory Chris Simpson, National University Diane Staheli, MIT Lincoln Laboratory Teryl Taylor, University of North Carolina Olivier Thonnard, Symantec Research Labs Europe Joanne Treurniet, Defence Research and Development Canada David Trimm, US Department of Defense Grant Vandenberghe, Defense Research and Development Canada Sean Whalen, University of California San Francisco Anatoly Yelizarov, Lomonosov Moscow State University Tamara Yu, MIT Lincoln Laboratory CONTACT Website: http://www.vizsec.org/ Email: vizsec2014@easychair.org Google Group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/vizsec The IEEE VIS 2014 Publicity chairs, including -- Liz -- G. Elisabeta Marai Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science University of Pittsburgh http://www.cs.pitt.edu/~marai