VizSEC 2005
                Workshop on Visualization for Computer Security
                                   Wednesday October 26th,  2005
                                       Minneapolis, Minnesota
                         http://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~ma/VizSEC05/
      (to be held in conjunction with IEEE Vis2005 and InfoVis2005)

         Sponsored by the National Science Foundation  (pending)
                                   Sponsored by AT&T  (pending)


                                               Important Dates
                       Full paper due (up to 8 pages) May 8, 2005
                     Paper acceptances announced    July 4, 2005
                      Final camera-ready copy due    July 31, 2005

Networked computers are increasingly ubiquitous, and they are subject to
attack, misuse, and abuse. Every effort is being made by organizations and
individuals to build and maintain trustworthy computing systems. The
traditional, signature-based and statistical methods are limited in their
capability to cope with the large, evolving data and the dynamic nature of
Internet. In many applications, visualization proves very effective to
understand large high-dimensional data. Thus, there is a growing interest
in the development of visualization methods as alternative or
complementary solutions to the pressing cyber security problems. Some of
these solutions were presented at VizSEC 2004 which was held in
conjunction with ACM Computer and Communication Security Conference.

Following the success of VizSEC 2004, we bring VizSEC to the Visualization
2005 Conference. We would like to invite you to join us in this event
which we believe will foster greater exchange among computer security
professionals and visualization researchers. Note that this workshop will
be held on Wednesday immediately following InfoVis 2005. Attendees will
also be able to attend Vis2005's Keynote Speech and the rest of the main
conference program.

We solicit papers that report innovative results in solving all aspects of
cyber security problems with visualization techniques. All submitted
papers will be peer-reviewed and accepted papers will appear in the
Visualization 2005 Conference DVD proceedings as well as the ACM Digital
Library.  An expanded version of the best workshop papers will be included
in a special issue of IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications on Visualization
on Cyber Security.

For more information see: <http://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~ma/VizSEC05/>