LASER 2012—Learning from Authoritative Security Experiment Results
July 18 - 19, 2012 | Arlington, VA
Registration is Open
Registration is by invitation only and is limited to 50 people.
To request a registration invitation, please send email to laser-workshop@sei.cmu.edu with a short paragraph describing why you are interested in attending and what you can contribute to the discussions at the workshop. If accepted, you will receive a URL that will allow you to register.
Register by June 18 to take advantage of the discounted rate of $125. After June 18, the registration cost will be $225. June 18 is also the deadline for registering at the hotel.
We encourage students to attend this workshop. As such, we have some funding available to support students and will give them priority for registration. In your application, please mention whether you would like to be considered for this level of student support.
Accepted Papers
- Free vs. Transcribed Text for Keystroke-Dynamics Evaluations
- P2P Hierarchical Botnet Traffic Detection Using Hidden Markov Models
- Self-Identified Experts Lost on the Interwebs
- A Journey Towards Rigorous Cybersecurity Experiments: On the Application of Criminological Theories
- Experience with Large Scale and Heterogenous Clock-Skew Based Device Fingerprinting
- Studying Access Control Usability in the Lab: Lessons Learned from Three Studies
Panels and Keynotes
- Research Panel: Scientific Methods for Cyber Security
- Government Panel: The Role of Risk and Failure in Research
- Keynote Speakers to be Announced Later
The goal of this workshop is to provide an outlet for publication of the results of all properly conducted experimental (cyber) security research. This will encourage people
to share not only what works, but also what doesn't. Given the increased importance of computer security, the security community needs to quickly identify and learn from both
success and failure. This is the primary goal of this workshop. The specific technical results of the experiments are of secondary importance for this workshop.
Topics include, but are not limited to
- Unsuccessful research in experimental security
- Methods and designs for security experiments
- Experimental confounds, mistakes, mitigations
- Successes and failures in reproducing the experimental techniques and/or results of earlier work
The workshop focuses on research that has a valid hypothesis and reproducible experimental methodology, but where the results were unexpected or did not validate the
hypotheses, where the methodology addressed difficult and/or unexpected issues, or that identified previously unsuspected confounding issues.
Download the Call for Papers (pdf).
Schedule
The LASER proceedings will be published by ACM as part of ACM's International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS) and included in the online ACM Digital Library at http://dl.acm.org.
A room block for LASER has been reserved at the Holiday Inn Rosslyn, one block from the Rosslyn Metro and three blocks from the meeting location at SRI International. The rate is $129/night + tax for the nights of July 17, 18, and 19. Rooms must be reserved by phone at 703-807-2000, ext. 2222, or 1-800-368-3408. Ask for room block LUS. Deadline for reservations is June 18, 2012. Free wi-fi and parking are included. If you are a Priority Club member, breakfast is included; breakfast will also be served at the LASER meeting.
Location
SRI International
1100 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 2800
Arlington, VA 22209
Funded in part by a grant from the NSF.
