Call for Participation "Community Workshop on Ethical Guidelines for Security Research" From activities involving the use of deception to study Internet phishing, to the infiltration of botnets to understand cyber crime, to disclosure of systems vulnerabilities to advance scientific ground truth, computer and information security researchers are increasingly in the cross-hairs of activities that raise ethical issues. Computers and networks are ever more intertwined in our lives, and correspondingly security and network research present both similar and novel issues as those faced by traditional social and biomedical research. Those issues concern respecting persons, maximizing potential benefits and minimizing harm, and equitably apportioning benefits and burdens across research subjects and the larger society. For those issues that are distinctively different from conventional research there is a need for ethical guidance to identify unique issues, design experiments, apply protocols, and assess the acceptability of research in accordance with ethics principles. This full-day workshop will anchor off of a multi-year effort by network and security research stakeholders that has resulted in a guiding framework, known as The Menlo Report. This workshop is intended to engage the wider community of researchers, oversight entities, and policymakers in a dialogue that will inform and reflect community accord on ethics in security and network research. The participants will be guided by facilitators from the Menlo Report effort in interactive and informative sessions concerning: the Menlo Report background, feedback and impact statements from various stakeholders who have reviewed the Report, vehicles for implementing ethical principles, and alternative approaches to applying ethical principles in research. Results from the community workshop will inform changes to the Menlo Report, which will subsequently be submitted as a final draft report to the Federal Register for full public comment. The workshop will be co-located with the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy. Participants can register through the Symposium website application form. For participant stakeholders who wish to inform workshop organizers about works in progress, or for any questions, concerns or comments please contact Shari.Clayman@associates.dhs.gov Date: Thursday, May 26, 2011 Venue: Claremont Hotel, Berkeley, CA Organizers: Douglas Maughan, Program Manager, Cyber Security R&D Science and Technology Directorate, Department of Homeland Security Washington DC; Menlo Report Co-Authors: Erin Kenneally, Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA), Dave Dittrich, University of Washington. The workshop Agenda and a working draft of the Menlo Report will be made available at http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2011/workshops.html