** Apologies for Cross-postings -- please share ** The extended deadline for the *IEEE Symposium on Visualization for CyberSecurity VizSec 2022* is one week from today. ********* *July 1st, 2022 Submission deadline for full, short and position papers ********* * July 18, 2022 Author notifications Aug 08, 2022 Camera ready submissions and copyright forms due Event Date: October 19, 2022 Website: https://vizsec.org/vizsec2022/ <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://vizsec.org/vizsec2022/__;!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ!b4lwd6Eif8DAHTXiAdBwhJDxHOlapt-6dafKwN62bNdMmvNsFcQmYfTsMwVVevDXwUyWLw6-t3MxBstQmQq1-jdxQfXk3Q$> ********************************************************************* CALL FOR PAPERS ********************************************************************* We are cordially inviting you to participate in the 19th IEEE Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security (VizSec) 2022, to be held in conjunction with the 2022 IEEE VIS. *** Full CfP on the Symposium Website https://vizsec.org/vizsec2022/ <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://vizsec.org/vizsec2022/__;!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ!b4lwd6Eif8DAHTXiAdBwhJDxHOlapt-6dafKwN62bNdMmvNsFcQmYfTsMwVVevDXwUyWLw6-t3MxBstQmQq1-jdxQfXk3Q$> *** VizSec brings together researchers and practitioners from academia, government, and industry to address the needs of the cybersecurity community through new and insightful visualization and analysis techniques. VizSec program will be presented in a hybrid format with virtual presentations. We are soliciting Technical (Full), Short, Poster, and Position Papers. Technical Papers Full papers describing novel contributions in security visualization are solicited. Papers may present techniques, applications, theory, analysis, experiments, or 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 - Machine learning & explainable AI for cybersecurity - Adversarial machine learning visualization - Adversarial visualization - Visual analytics for cybersecurity - Data protection & privacy - Blockchain performance & security - Cybersecurity in critical infrastructure - Collaborative visualization for cybersecurity & provenance - Decision support for security configuration and deployment - Reverse engineering and malware analysis - Vulnerability management - Multiple data source analysis - Analyzing information requirements for computer network defense - Evaluation and/or user testing of systems - Criteria for assessing the effectiveness of cyber security visualizations, for security goals or human factors - System modeling and network analysis - Usable Security and Privacy - Software security - Mobile application security - Social networking privacy and security - Training & education - Visualization for privacy engineering Submissions including tests and evaluations of the proposed tools and techniques are encouraged. If possible, making test data available will be considered positively. If you do not have real-world data, you may check the VizSec dataset links <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://vizsec.org/data/__;!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ!b4lwd6Eif8DAHTXiAdBwhJDxHOlapt-6dafKwN62bNdMmvNsFcQmYfTsMwVVevDXwUyWLw6-t3MxBstQmQq1-jfUxOtVZw$>. Please see past years <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://vizsec.org/past/__;!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ!b4lwd6Eif8DAHTXiAdBwhJDxHOlapt-6dafKwN62bNdMmvNsFcQmYfTsMwVVevDXwUyWLw6-t3MxBstQmQq1-jdkEbACTg$> proceedings and websites to see the quality and examples of previous submissions. Previous VizSec papers may be found on the VizSec Papers Browser <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://vizsec.dbvis.de/__;!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ!b4lwd6Eif8DAHTXiAdBwhJDxHOlapt-6dafKwN62bNdMmvNsFcQmYfTsMwVVevDXwUyWLw6-t3MxBstQmQq1-jemEindig$> and on IEEE Xplore. Short Papers Short papers describing initial research results, case studies, or incremental work on the above topics are solicited. We encourage papers discussing the introduction of cyber security visualizations into operational context, including, but not limited to: - Cases where visualization made positive contributions towards meeting operational needs - Gaps or negative outcomes from visualization deployments - Situations where visualization was not utilized, but could have had a positive impact - Lessons learned from operational engagements - Insights gained from the transition process Position Papers Position papers discuss or reconsider forgotten topics relevant for the VizSec community. They should report a clear position on the target topic and should also suggest a proposal or actions. They should stimulate imaginative and hypothesis-driven research. In particular, we encourage submissions both from researchers inside the visualization community and outside, such as researchers and practitioners from pure cybersecurity domains who currently do not broadly employ visualization in their work. Posters Poster submissions may showcase late-breaking results, work in progress, preliminary results, or visual representations relevant to the VizSec community. The poster session offers a timely venue to present and discuss these submissions through active engagement with the community. The presentation of posters will take place in a hybrid event, with 1-2 dedicated hybrid sessions in which authors can meet and discuss their work with conference participants. An additional web presence of posters will supplement the traditional physical installation. More concrete details will follow soon. July 28, 2022 Submission deadline for posters Aug 08, 2022 Poster Author notifications Sep 01, 2022 Camera-ready abstract, electronic poster, and preview image Awards There will be an award for the best full paper from the accepted program. This award will be given to the paper judged to have the highest overall quality as determined by the program committee. Key elements of the selection process include whether papers include evaluation, repeatable results, and open-source data or software. Authors of the best paper will be invited to submit an article about their work to the IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics journal. There will also be an award for Best Poster. This award will recognize authors’ efforts to clearly present their work to the audience. The award will be determined by anonymous judges and given to recipients at the end of the conference Submissions The VizSec 2022 Proceedings will be published by IEEE. Submissions must be formatted using the IEEE VGTC conference template found at: https://tc.computer.org/vgtc/publications/conference/ <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://tc.computer.org/vgtc/publications/conference/__;!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ!b4lwd6Eif8DAHTXiAdBwhJDxHOlapt-6dafKwN62bNdMmvNsFcQmYfTsMwVVevDXwUyWLw6-t3MxBstQmQq1-jdKHc5xXw$> - Full papers are limited to 9 pages of content plus an additional 2 pages of references. Reviewers are not required to read the appendices or any pages past the maximum. - Short papers are at most 4 pages plus 1 page of references. - Position papers are at most 4 pages total including references. - Posters must be 2-page abstracts. Presenters are also encouraged to submit an accompanying video or other supplementary materials by following the IEEE VIS formatting guidelines. Submissions not meeting these guidelines will be rejected without consideration of their merit. Reviews are single-blind, so authors may include names and affiliations in their submissions. 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. VizSec uses the Precision Conference System (PCS) to handle their paper and poster submissions and reviewing processes. For more information please see: https://vizsec.org/vizsec2022/ <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://vizsec.org/vizsec2022/__;!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ!b4lwd6Eif8DAHTXiAdBwhJDxHOlapt-6dafKwN62bNdMmvNsFcQmYfTsMwVVevDXwUyWLw6-t3MxBstQmQq1-jdxQfXk3Q$> Chris Bryan VizSec 2022 General Chair