Hard Topic Theme: Big Data *for* Security

Background

ACSAC is continuing its focus on tackling hard, cutting-edge, cyber security problems requiring cooperation from government, industry and academia. A number of orchestrated sessions will include government and industry speakers to frame the problem, industry and academic speakers to discuss issues and challenges related to the problem, and academic speakers to introduce promising security research. The primary goal of these special sessions will be to foster discussion that can expose opportunities for further collaboration and highlight promising research directions.M

Contributing

This year, ACSAC especially encourages submissions in the area of Big Data *for* Security. The security industry is rapidly amassing an incredible amount of information: billions of malicious samples and emails attachments, Internet-wide scans that can be repeated multiple times a day, collections of DNS queries and HTTP requests, and an unprecedented amount of open source software to mine for vulnerabilities are only the tip of the iceberg. This information allows researchers to observe phenomena that do not manifest on a small scale and can play an important role in many other aspects of security, from analytics and intelligence support, to training automated classification and reasoning techniques. However, using large datasets in security also faces many technical and scientific challenges. Therefore, we need to design new data-driven techniques and we need to rethink our existing solutions to take advantage of this vast amount of information to improve security.

Submissions in this area include (but are not limited to) the use of machine learning and data mining techniques to explore and extract information from large datasets of security-relevant information, or to better cluster and classify their data. They also include the presentation of new large-scale data collection and analysis techniques, and the discussion of longitudinal studies that bring new insights into attackers' behavior, or help researchers to better understand the evolution of a given threat.

ACSAC welcomes submissions of not only technical papers, but also panels, workshops, posters, and works-in-progress as well as other "out-of-the-box" ideas. ACSAC also welcomes specific suggestions for invited speakers and presenters. See the Call for Submissions for specific instructions for each submission type.

Program Sessions of Interest

Following are some of the program sessions related to Big Data:

Additional ACSA Events:
NSPW – New Security Paradigms Workshop
LASER – Learning from Authoritative Security Experiment Results