CSIIR Workshop at Oak Ridge National Laboratory – May 12-14 2008
Developing strategies to meet the cyber security and information intelligence challenges aheadBrochure | Highlights | Keynote Speakers | Deadlines |
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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. ORNL staff are welcome (please contact Rochelle Womble).
Consider the 
Call for Full Papers to the CSIIR Minitrack at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences due June 15, 2008.
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):
√ Better precision in understanding existing and emerging vulnerabilities and threats (e.g., insider threat).
√ Advances in insider threat detection, deterrence, mitigation and elimination.
√ Game-changing ventures, innovations and conundrums (e.g., quantum computing, QKD, phishing, malware market, botnet/DOS)
√ Assuring security, survivability and dependability of our critical infrastructures.
√ Assuring the availability of time-critical scalably secure systems, information provenance and security with privacy.
√ Observable/ measurable/ certifiable security claims, rather than hypothesized causes.
√ Methods that enable us to specify security requirements, formulate security claims, and certify security properties.
√ Assurance against known and unknown (though perhaps pre-modeled) threats.
√ Mission fulfillment, whether or not security violations have taken place (rather than chasing all violations indiscriminately).
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 3 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? This discussion will provide the basis for the preface (workshop conclusions and recommendations) into the published proceedings.
Planned Workshop Highlights
Keynote Professor Richard Kemmerer, Security Group, UC Santa Barbara
Keynote Professor Michael Franz, Secure Systems and Software Laboratory, UC Irvine
Keynote Professor Ravi Iyer, Director Coordinated Science Laboratory, UIUC
Keynote Jeff Voas, Director of System Assurance, SAIC
Keynote Brian Witten, Director of Government Research, Symantec
Keynotes Mike McDuffie, VP and Patrick Arnold, CTO of Public Sector Services, Microsoft
Keynote Panel From Application to Network Security Engineering: Theory and Practice (TBA: Suggest a Panel Question)
Round Table Dinner at Oak Ridge Doubletree
Tour of the $1.4B+ SNS Facility as well as the NCCS (National Center for Computational Science) and EVEREST
ACM Published proceedings
Interested parties are encouraged to submit extended abstracts (up to 3 pages) on or before March 3rd to Frederick Sheldon
Important Dates in 2008
| Extended abstracts (up to 3 pages) submitted to Frederick Sheldon for guidance and indication of appropriate content | |
| Author notification (advanced program and visitation request URL sent to participant) | |
| Thursday April 3: | Visitation requests submitted by foreign national attendees (hard deadline visitation request) |
| Friday May 9: | Submission of presentation slides (up to 10 pgs 2 slides/pg) and final revised extended abstracts |
| Sunday June 15: | Submission deadline of full papers (optional) to HICSS Minitrack Cyber Security and Information Intelligence Research |
| Monday June 16: | Publication of CSIIR Workshop Proceedings in ACM Digital Library (extended abstracts and presentations) |
Registration Fee
There will be a $99 Participant Registration Fee to partially cover the costs including food and the banquet dinner.
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
| Professor Ali Mili College of Computing Science New Jersey Institute of Technology |
Professor 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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