SafeConfig 2014 - International Workshop on Cyber Security Analytics and Automation

The new sophisticated cyber security threats demand new security techniques and approaches that offer proactive, intelligent and a holistic security analytics based on analyzing the system artifacts including system traces, configurations, logs, incident reports, alarms and network traffic. Cyber security requires scalable analytics in order to handle large volumes of data in order to normalize, model, integrate, analyze and respond to threats at real time. The system configurations and policies are key components that determine the security and resiliency of networked information systems and services. However, a typical enterprise networked environment contains thousands of network and security devices and millions of inter-dependent configuration variables (e.g., rules) that orchestrate the end-to-end system behavior globally. As the current technology moves toward "smart" cyber infrastructure and open networking platforms (e.g. OpenFlow and virtual computing), the need for large-scale security analytics and automation significantly increases. The coupled integration of network sensor data and configuration in a unified framework will enable intelligent response, automated defense, and network resiliency and agility.
This workshop offers a unique opportunity by bringing together researchers form academic, industry as well as government agencies to discuss these challenges, exchange experiences, and propose joint plans for promoting research and development in this area. SafeConfig workshop is a one day program that will include invited talks, technical presentations of peer-reviewed papers, poster/demo sessions, and joint panels on research collaboration. SafeConfig Symposium solicits the submission of original unpublished ideas in 8-page long papers, or 4-page short papers, or 1-pages posters. Security analytics and automation for new emerging application domains such as clouds and data centers, cyber-physical systems software defined networking and Internet of things are of particular interest to SafeConfig community.