[ias-opportunities] VizSec Call for Participation / Posters / Student Stipends

[Carrie Gates <gates@cs.dal.ca>]

Call for Posters and Participation!
Registration is Open!
Apply for Student Stipends!

VizSec 2009
Workshop on Visualization for Cyber Security
October 11, 2009   /   Atlantic City, NJ USA
http://vizsec.org/vizsec2009/

Early registration ends Sept 4!  
Please visit our web site to register


Call for Posters:
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After the success of the poster session last year, we are going to have a
poster session again this year!  Posters proposals are due by September 14 
by email to carrie.gates@ca.com and JohnG@securedecisions.com.  Final
final notification of acceptance will be sent by September 17.  Should you 
wish to receive notification before early registration ends, please submit 
your proposal by September 2.  Poster proposals need be no more than one 
page describing your poster content, and can be provided in any format
(e.g., Word, PDF, plain text).  Accepted proposals will be posted online.




Call for Participation:
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The 6th International Workshop on Visualization for Cyber Security is a 
forum that brings together researchers and practitioners in information 
visualization and security to address the specific needs of the cyber 
security community through new and insightful visualization techniques. 
Co-located this year with IEEE InfoVis/Vis/VAST, VizSec will continue 
to provide opportunities for the two communities to collaborate and share 
insights into providing solutions for security needs through visualization 
approaches. 

This year we are excited to announce
	Bill Cheswick
from AT&T Labs as our keynote speaker.  Mr. Cheswick is perhaps best known 
in the visualization community for his visualization of the internet - The 
Internet Mapping Project - which started in 1998.  In his provocative 
talk "Visual Tools for Security: Is there a there there?", Mr. Cheswick 
will be challenging the idea that visualization is useful to security
analysts.

We also have a fabulous selection of papers this year, emphasizing four 
topics:
	= Network Visualization
	= Malware and Forensics
	= Users and Usability
	= Security Practices
Network Visualization is one of the most popular topics within VizSec, 
and this year is no exception.  Our three papers in this area cover 
visualization of complex attacks and the associated state of the 
attacked network, visualization for network analysis, and visualization 
support within IPv6.  In Malware and Forensics, our three papers 
emphasize visualization of compiled executables to support malware 
analysis, visual analysis of malware behavior, and also analysis 
supporting examination of digital forensics evidence.  In the area 
of Users and Usability, we have papers that range from consideration 
of how analysts' workspace support their efforts to evaluation of when 
visualization provides better results.  Finally, in the area of Security 
Practices, we offer two papers, one on visualizing keyboard pattern 
passwords and another on visualizing firewall configurations.



Student Stipends:
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The VizSec committee might be able to provide limited support for those
students attending VizSec.  Preference is given first to presenting authors,
and then to students with posters.  To apply, please send email to
deborah.frincke@pnl.gov with the subject line "VizSec Student Support 
Request".




Organizing Committee:
=====================

General Chair			Deborah Frincke, Pacific Northwest National 
				Laboratory and University of Washington
Program Co-Chair:		Carrie Gates, CA Labs
Program Co-Chair:		John Goodall, Secure Decisions Division of 
				Applied Visions
Papers Chair:			Robert Erbacher, Utah State University



Program Committee:
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Richard Beijtich, General Electric, USA
Greg Conti, United States Military Academy, USA
Marc Dacier, Symantec Research Labs, France
Anita D'Amico, Secure Decisions div. of Applied Visions, USA
Ron Dilley, Information Security Professional, USA
Dave Ebert, Purdue University, USA
Glenn Fink, Pacific Northwest National Lab, USA
John Gerth, Stanford University, USA
Warren Harrop, Swinburne Univ. of Technology, Australia
Mark Haselkorn, University of Washington, USA
Richard Johnson, Microsoft, USA
Richard Kemmerer, UC Santa Barbara, USA
Toby Kohlenberg, Intel, USA 
Florian Mansmann, University of Konstanz, Germany
Raffael Marty, Splunk, USA
Doug Maughan, Department of Homeland Security, USA
John McHugh, Dalhousie Univ., Canada, and Univ. NC, USA
Jan P. Monsch, Dublin City University, Ireland
Chris North, Virginia Tech, USA
Stephen North, AT&T Research, USA
Sean Peisert, UC Davis, USA
Greg Schmidt, SPADAC, USA
George Tadda, Air Force Research Lab, USA
Ed Talbot, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
Joanne Treurniet, Defence R&D Canada, Canada
Grant Vandenberghe, Defence R&D Canada, Canada
Kirsten Whitley, Department of Defense, USA
Pak Chung Wong, Pacific Northwest National Lab, USA
Tamara Yu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

http://vizsec.org/vizsec2009/