VizSEC 2008 Workshop on Visualization for Cyber Security http://vizsec.org/workshop2008/ Cambridge, MA USA September 15, 2008 In conjunction with RAID 2008 Deadlines April 11, 2008 : Deadline for full paper submission May 9, 2008 : Deadline for short paper submissions July 18, 2008 : Deadline for poster and demo abstracts The 5th International Workshop on Visualization for Cyber Security will provide a forum for new research in visualization for computer security. VizSec will be held in conjunction with the 11th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID). As a result of previous VizSec workshops, we have seen both the application of existing visualization techniques to security problems and the development of novel security visualization approaches. However, VizSec research has focused on helping human analysts to detect anomalies and patterns, particularly in computer network defense. Other communities, led by researchers from the RAID Symposia, have researched automated methods for detecting anomalies and malicious activity. The theme for this year's workshop will be on bridging the gap between visualization and automation, such as leveraging the power of visualization to create rules for intrusion detection and defense systems. We also solicit papers that report results on visualization techniques and systems in solving all aspects of cyber security problems, including: * Visualization of Internet routing * Visualization of packet traces and network flows * Visualization of intrusion detection alerts * Visualization of attack tracks * Visualization of security vulnerabilities * Visualization of attack paths * Visualization of application processes * Visualization for forensic analysis * Visualization for correlating events * Visualization for computer network defense training * Visualization for offensive information operations * Visualization for building rules * Visualization for feature selection * Visualization for cryptology * Visualization for detecting anomalous activity * Deployment and field testing of VizSec systems * Evaluation and user testing of VizSec systems * User and design requirements for VizSec systems * Lessons learned from development and deployment of VizSec systems All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed. Full and short papers will be published by Springer. Poster and demonstration abstracts will be made available on the vizsec.org web site. For more information, please see http://vizsec.org/workshop2008/