IEEE VizSec was held in Chicago, Illinois, USA on October 26, 2015. VizSec 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.

VizSec was again be held in conjunction with IEEE VIS.

The proceedings are available in the IEEE Digital Library: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=7310645.

The 12th IEEE Symposium on 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 cybersecurity 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 was held in Chicago, Illinois, USA in conjunction with IEEE VIS.

The purpose of VizSec is to explore effective and scalable visual interfaces for security domains such as network security, computer forensics, reverse engineering, insider threat detection, cryptography, privacy, user assisted attacks prevention, compliance management, wireless security, secure coding, and penetration testing.

Technical Papers

Full papers describing novel contributions in security visualization are solicited. Papers may present techniques, applications, practical experience, theory, analysis, experiments, or 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
• Assisting proactive security configuration and deployment
• Reverse engineering and malware analysis
• Vulnerability management
• 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

When applicable, visualization and interaction techniques that effectively capture the insights of human analysts and/or allow analysts to collaborate efficiently are particularly desirable.

Posters

Poster submissions may showcase late-breaking results, work in progress, preliminary results, or visual representations relevant to the VizSec community. The poster program will be a great opportunity for the authors to interact with the attendees and solicit feedback. Accepted poster abstracts will be made available on this website.

Tests and Evaluation

When applicable, submissions including tests and evaluations of the proposed tools and techniques are considered particularly desirable. If possible, making the data used for the tests available will also be considered positively. If you do not have real-world data to demonstrate your visualization, you may be interested in looking at the VAST Challenge data sets.

All deadlines are 5:00 PM PST

Papers

August 1, 2015

Submission for Papers

September 5, 2015

Author Notification for Papers

October 3, 2015

Camera Ready Submission and Copyright Forms for Papers

Posters

September 19, 2015

Abstract Submission for Posters

September 30, 2015

Author Notification for Posters

VizSec is held with IEEE VIS.

To register, continue to the IEEE VIS Conference Registration page.

For more information on the venue and hotel, please see the IEEE VIS Conference Venue page.

Organizing Committee

General Chair

Lane Harrison, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Program Chair

Nicolas Prigent, CentraleSupélec

Publicatations Chair

Sophie Engle, University of San Francisco

Poster Chair

Dan Best, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Web Design

John Goodall, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Program Committee

• Marco Angelini, University of Rome La Sapienza
• Siming Chen, Peking University
• Pierre Chifflier, ANSSI
• Alex Endert, Georgia Tech
• Fabian Fischer, University of Konstanz
• Deborah Frincke, US Department of Defense
• Carie Gates, CA Labs
• John Gerth, Stanford University
• John Goodall, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Robert Gove, Invincea
• Dan Hubbard, OpenDNS
• Christopher Humphries, CentraleSupélec
• Éric Leblond, Stamus Networks/Suricata
• Tim Leschke, US Department of Defense and Johns Hopkins University
• Frédéric Majorczyk, DGA-MI
• Raffael Marty, Pixlcloud
• Sean McKenna, University of Utah and MIT Lincoln Laboratory
• Chris Muelder, University of California at Davis
• Stephen North, Graphviz
• Eric Ragan, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Giuseppe Santucci, University of Rome La Sapienza
• Graig Sauer, US Department of Defense
• Christopher Simpson, National University
• Diane Staheli, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
• Jan-Erik Stange, University of Applied Sciences, Potsdam
• Sébastien Tricaud, Splunk
• David Trimm, US Department of Defense
• Simon Walton, University of Oxford, UK
• Sean Whalen, University of San Francisco
• Kirsten Whitley, US Department of Defense
• Tobias Wüchner, Technische Universität München

VizSec Steering Committee

• Gregory Conti, US Military Academy, West Point
• Deborah Frincke, US Department of Defense
• Carie Gates, CA Labs
• John Gerth, Stanford University
• John Goodall, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Kwan-Liu Ma, University of California at Davis
• Kirsten Whitley, US Department of Defense

Email questions to vizsec2015@easychair.org or post to the Google Group. Also, keep updated on Twitter: @vizsec.