Call for Papers

The 12th IEEE Symposium on 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 cybersecurity 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 Chicago, Illinois, USA in conjunction with IEEE VIS.

The purpose of VizSec is to explore effective and scalable visual interfaces for security domains such as network security, computer forensics, reverse engineering, insider threat detection, cryptography, privacy, user assisted attacks prevention, compliance management, wireless security, secure coding, and penetration testing.
Technical Papers

Full papers describing novel contributions in security visualization are solicited. Papers may present techniques, applications, practical experience, 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
    Recording and reporting results of investigations
    Assisting proactive 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 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

When applicable, visualization and interaction techniques that effectively capture the insights of human analysts and/or allow analysts to collaborate efficiently are particularly desirable.
Posters

Poster submissions may showcase late-breaking results, work in progress, preliminary results, or visual representations relevant to the VizSec community. The poster program will be a great opportunity for the authors to interact with the attendees and solicit feedback. Accepted poster abstracts will be made available on this website.
Tests and Evaluation

When applicable, submissions including tests and evaluations of the proposed tools and techniques are considered particularly desirable. If possible, making the data used for the tests available will also be considered positively. If you do not have real-world data to demonstrate your visualization, you may be interested in looking at the VAST Challenge data sets.