To be held in conjunction with the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data 2024), Dec 15-18, 2024 |
Security analysts need to process high velocity and veracious data for early, ideally left of exploit, detection of cybersecurity events, such as attacks, data theft, etc. The problem is challenging given the constantly evolving threat landscape. Even with advanced monitoring, sophisticated persistent attackers can spend as many as 146 days in a system before being detected. Existing systems’ lack of unified organizational view causes information flooding and overwhelms a security analyst with false alarms. We need techniques that reduce an analyst’s cognitive load. Big data crossing the organizational boundary even in mid-size environments, needs to be mined, examined, and analyzed to create ‘Analyst Augmentation Systems’ which will aid security analysts in their day-to-day operations.
This workshop aims to bring together researchers from Cybersecurity and Big Data to help further homeland security’s missions of anticipation, interdiction, prevention, preparedness, and response. We invite submissions in areas (but not limited to) related to knowledge extraction from cybersecurity intelligence big datasets, fast analysis of security datasets for relevant information, and using this knowledge for various cybersecurity activities like early attack detection, mitigation, remediation, and forensics. Submissions that propose a data-driven response to events like the Solarwinds hack are especially encouraged.
Big data and Cybersecurity research is an interdisciplinary research field involving researchers in information technologies, computer science, public policy, computational social science, social computing, and social and behavioral studies as well as local, state, and federal law enforcement and intelligence experts, and information technology industry consultants and practitioners.
The workshop will have a mix of peer-reviewed and invited papers.
Workshop Schedule
Important dates
- Oct 1, 2024: Due date for full workshop papers submission
- Nov 4, 2024: Notification of paper acceptance to authors
- Nov 17, 2024: Camera-ready of accepted papers
- Dec 15-18, 2024: Workshops
Formatting details:
Paper Submission:
Please submit a full-length paper (up to 10 pages in IEEE 2-column format, with reference pages counted in the 10 pages ) through the online submission system.