CSIIRW10 will be held April 21–23 2010 at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Game changing strategies to meet the cyber security and information intelligence challenges ahead

Submission deadline: 2/15/10, acceptance 3/12/10 (some links below reflect CSIIRW09 event)

2010 Brochure | 2009 Keynote Abstracts & Bios | Deadlines | 2009 Program Schedule | Visitation Request | Registration | ACM Subm guidelines††
Required of all non-ORNL personnel, ††Required for both extended abstract and slides
The Annual Cyber Security and Information Intelligence Research Workshop will be held at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, TN in the Conference Center with Plenary sessions at the National Institute for Computational Sciences auditorium and (time permitting) at The University of Tennessee (Alumni Memorial Building) in Knoxville. ORNL staff are welcome (contact Cristal Case).
Consider the Call for 44th HICSS Full Papers to the CSIIR Minitrack at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences will be due June 15, 2010.
As our dependence on the cyber infrastructure grows ever larger, more complex and more distributed, the systems that compose it become more prone to failures and/or exploitation. Intelligence is information valued for its currency and relevance rather than its detail or accuracy (wiki). Information explosion describes the pervasive abundance of (public/private) information and the effects of such. Gathering, analyzing, and making use of information constitutes a business- / sociopolitical- / military-intelligence gathering activity and ultimately poses significant advantages and liabilities to the survivability of "our" society. The combination of increased vulnerability, increased stakes and increased threats make cyber security and information intelligence (CSII) one of the most important emerging challenges in the evolution of modern cyberspace "mechanization."

The goal of the workshop is to challenge, establish and debate a far-reaching agenda that broadly and comprehensively outlines a strategy for cyber security and information intelligence that is founded on sound principles and technologies, including (software engineering note):

√ Scalable trustworthy systems (including system architectures and requisite development methodologies)

√ Enterprise-level metrics (including measures of overall system trustworthiness)

√ Life-cycle of System Evaluation methodologies (including approaches for attaining sufficient assurance)

√ Coping with insider threats

√ Coping with malware

√ Global identity management

√ System survivability

√ Situational awareness and attack attribution

√ Data provenance and integrity (relating to information, systems, and hardware)

√ Privacy-aware security and usable security

Our inaugural theme (+1) was:  Beyond the Maginot line.  We must shift our focus away from winning battles, towards a strategy for winning the war by elevating trust in the mission and it's underlying critical infrastructures.


In keeping with the workshop format, we are seeking extended abstracts (up to 4 pages). Presentations will be scheduled at the workshop to accommodate successive twenty – thirty minute talks plus ten minutes to allow maximum interaction and discussion between participants to:

√ Address our goals and refine our strategy, establish collaborative opportunities,

√ Disseminate information about important developments, initiatives and interested groups,

√ Identify measures of success.


How can we focus our future efforts to maximize the success of our strategy to ensure our technologies can meet the challenge of cyber security?

Planned Workshop Highlights
Keynote Douglas Maughan,
Cyber Security Research Lead, DHS Science &Technology (CID)
Keynote Nabil Adam, Infrastructure & Geophysical Division, DHS Science & Technology
Keynote Eric Cole,
Senior Scientist with Lockheed Martin Information Technology (LMIT) and Lockheed Martin Fellow
Keynote Bhavani Thuaisingham, Director for Cyber Security Research Center, Professor of Computer Science, University of Texas at Dallas
Keynote Robert Stratton,
Director, Public Sector R&D, Symantec
Keynote Sajal Das, Program Director, Network Technology and Systems (NeTS) Cluster, National Science Foundation
Keynote Sal Stolfo, Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University
Keynote Mike Hinchey, Co-Director, Lero –The Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, University of Limerick; Former Director Software Engineering Laboratory, NASA GSFC

Keynote George Hull, CTO, Intelligence Group (TASC), Northrop Grumman IT

Keynote Panels/BOFs:
Suggest a Panel Question


Round Table Dinner at Oak Ridge Doubletree

Tour: NCCS, EVEREST and SNS Facilities

ACM Published proceedings


Interested parties are encouraged to submit extended abstracts (up to 4 pages) on or before February 1.
Important Dates in 2009
Feb. 15: Extended abstracts (up to 4 pages) submitted for guidance and indication of appropriate content
Mar 12:
Author notification (advanced program and visitation request URL sent to participant)
March 27: Visitation requests submitted by all attendees (hard deadline visitation request)
April 10: Submission of presentation slides (up to 10 pgs 2 slides/pg) and final revised extended abstracts


June 15: Submission deadline of full papers (optional) to HICSS Minitrack Cyber Security and Information Intelligence Research Best Attended Minitrack in 2008
July 20: Publication of CSIIR Workshop Proceedings in ACM Digital Library (extended abstracts and presentations)

Registration Fee

There will be a $179 Participant Registration Fee to partially cover the costs including food and the banquet dinner due April 1 2010.
The FBC will coordinate all vendor and participant registration. A limited block of hotel rooms at GSA rates are available on a FCFS basis. A bus will be available for to/from transfers between the Laboratory/Hotel in the morning (7:30) and afternoon (5pm) all 3 days including the laboratory tour on either Tuesday/Wednesday afternoon (TBA beginning ~2:30/3:30pm).

General Chair
Frederick T. Sheldon
Cyberspace Sciences and Information Intelligence Research Group
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Program Co-Chairs
Greg Peterson
Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of Tennessee
Ali Mili
College of Computing Science
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Axel Krings
Department of Computer Science
University of Idaho

Proceedings Editor
Robert K. Abercrombie
Cyberspace Sciences and Information Intelligence Research Group
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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