7th International Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security
The 7th International Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security (VizSec) will be held in the heart of downtown Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, September 14, 2010. This symposium 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 will be held in conjunction with the 13th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID) September 15-17, 2010. VizSec will continue to provide opportunities for the two communities to collaborate and share insights into providing solutions for security needs through visualization approaches.
VizSec is a forum that brings together researchers and practitioners in information visualization and cyber security to address the specific needs of the cyber security community through new and insightful visualization techniques. Co-located this year with the Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID), the 7th VizSec will continue to provide opportunities for the two communities to collaborate and share insights into providing solutions for security needs through visualization approaches. Accepted papers will appear in the ACM Digital Library as part of the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series.
This year our focus is on understanding what makes effective visual interfaces for different cyber security tasks. This involves both advancing our understanding of what cyber security tasks are, and improving our understanding of what it means for a security visualization to be effective. Cyber security visualization tasks cover a wide range, including (but not limited to) acquiring situational awareness in massive datasets; analyzing data from disparate sources during incident handling; producing actionable reports for others; modelling the behaviour of systems; and predicting future events. Understanding the effectiveness of a cyber security visualization is not limited only to the usability of the interface itself, but, perhaps even more importantly, to the assessment of how the visualization advances security goals. Barriers confronting current researchers include understanding the tasks where visualization can be effective, concerns about available data for both usability and effectiveness assessment, lack of a common agreement about what constitutes sound experimental design, and the difficulties of measuring the relative effectiveness of security visualizations in practice. Additionally, discussions at VizSec 2009 raised the question about what role a science-based approach ought to play in the conjunction of visualization and security. While many researchers are making progress in these and other critical areas, much work remains.
General Chair: John Gerth, Stanford University Emeritus Chair: Deb Frincke, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Program Chair: Dino Schweitzer, United States Air Force Academy Publication Chair: John Goodall, Secure Decisions division of Applied Visions Inc. Local Chair: Grant Vandenberghe, Defence Research and Development Canada Local Co-Chair: Frédéric Massicotte, Communications Research Centre Canada
