Call for Papers

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.
Data

If you do not have real-world data to demonstrate your visualization, you may be interested in looking at the VAST 2012 Challenge data. VAST 2013 and VAST 2011 also had cyber security data if you are looking for additional data.
Submissions
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.

The VizSec proceedings will be published by ACM. The ACM SIG Proceedings Templates provides Word and LaTeX templates. (If you are using LaTeX, please use Option 2: LaTeX2e - Tighter Alternate style.)

Authors should apply ACM Computing Classification categories and terms.

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 poster abstracts using EasyChair: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vizsec2014
Important Dates

All deadlines are 5:00 PM PST
Papers

August 1, 2014
    Submission for Papers
September 5, 2014
    Author Notification for Papers
September 26, 2014
    Camera Ready Submission and Copyright Forms for Papers