[nmrg] [EuroS&P 2023 - WTMC 2023 CFP] 8th International Workshop on Traffic Measurements for Cybersecurity (WTMC 2023), co-located with 8th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE EuroS&P 2023), submissions by March 31 (FIRM)

[Casas Pedro <[e-mail]>]

8th International Workshop on Traffic Measurements for Cybersecurity (WTMC 2023)
Co-located with 8th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE EuroS&P 2023)
Delft, The Netherlands
Friday, July 7, 2023
https://wtmc.info/index.html


+ IMPORTANT DATES

- March 31, 2023 (AoE, UTC -12): Paper Submission (FIRM)
- May 2, 2023: Notification Date
- May 15, 2023: Camera-Ready Paper Deadline


+ PAPER FORMATS

+ short papers (up to 4 pages +2 for appendices/references)
+ regular papers (up to 6 pages +2 for appendices/references)
+ long papers (up to 10 pages +4 for appendices/references)

Short papers will be reviewed with a more open mind towards the scope of evaluation or breadth of topics compared to long papers.


+ WORKSHOP OVERVIEW

Current communication networks are increasingly becoming pervasive, complex, and ever-evolving due to factors like enormous growth in the number of network users, continuous appearance of network applications, increasing amount of data transferred, and diversity of user behavior. Understanding and measuring traffic in such networks is a challenging yet vital task for network management but recently also for cybersecurity purposes. Network traffic measurement and monitoring can, for example, enable the analysis of the spreading of malicious software and its capabilities or can help to understand the nature of various network threats, including those that exploit user's behavior and other user's sensitive information. On the other hand, network traffic investigation can also help to assess the effectiveness of the existing countermeasures or contribute to building new, better ones. Traffic measurements have been utilized in the area of economics of cybersecurity e.g., to assess ISP "badness" or to estimate the revenue of cybercriminals. Recent research has focused on measurements of fake news and the interplay between misinformation and user engagement in news postings using different online platforms.

The WTMC workshop aims to bring together the research accomplishments provided by researchers from academia and the industry. The other goal is to show the latest research results in the field of cybersecurity and understand how traffic measurements can influence it. We encourage prospective authors to submit related distinguished research papers on the subject of both theoretical approaches and practical case reviews. This workshop presents some of the most relevant ongoing research in cybersecurity seen from the traffic measurements perspective.

The workshop will be accessible to both non-experts interested in learning about this area and experts interested in hearing about new research and approaches.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

- Measurements for network incidents response, investigation, and evidence handling
- Measurements of cyber attacks (e.g., DDoS, botnet, malware, and phishing campaigns)
- Measurements for the security of web-based applications and services (e.g., social networking)
- Measurements for network anomalies detection
- Measurements for the economics of cybersecurity and privacy
- Measurements of security and privacy for the Internet of Things
- Measurements of Internet censorship
- Measurements of trends in the diffusion of misinformation on social media
- Measurement studies describing the impacts of regulations on cybersecurity and users' privacy (e.g., GDPR)
- Network traffic analysis to discover the nature and evolution of the cybersecurity threats
- Measurements of cyber-physical systems security
- Measurements for assessing the effectiveness of the threats detection/prevention methods and countermeasures
- Novel passive, active, and hybrid measurements techniques and tools for cybersecurity purposes
- Traffic classification and topology discovery tools for monitoring the evolving status of the network from the cybersecurity perspective
- Correlation of measurements across multiple layers, protocols, or networks for cybersecurity purposes
- Machine learning and data mining for analysis of network traffic measurements for cybersecurity
- Novel approaches for large-scale measurements for cybersecurity (e.g., crowd-sourcing)
- Novel visualization approaches to detect network attacks and other threats
- Analysis of network traffic to provide new insights about network structure and behavior from the security perspective
- Measurements of network protocol and applications behavior and its impact on cybersecurity and users' privacy
- Vulnerability measurements and notifications
- Measurements for new cybersecurity settings
- Ethical issues in measurements for cybersecurity
- Reappraisal of previous empirical findings


+ SUBMISSIONS

Papers will be accepted based on single-blind peer review (3-4 per paper) and should contain original, high-quality work. All papers must be written in English.

Authors are invited to submit short papers (up to 4 pages +2 for appendices/references), regular papers (up to 6 pages +2 for appendices/references), and long papers (up to 10 pages +4 for appendices/references) via EasyChair.
Reviewers are explicitly not expected to read the appendices while deciding whether to accept or reject the paper.

Submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wtmc2023

Papers accepted by the workshop will be published through IEEE Xplore in a volume accompanying the main IEEE Euro S&P conference proceedings.

+ ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

- Maciej Korczyński, Grenoble Alps University, France
- Wojciech Mazurczyk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
- Pedro Casas, Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria


PEDRO CASAS
Senior Scientist
Data Science & Artificial Intelligence
Center for Digital Safety & Security

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