Workshop on development of large scale security-related data collection and analysis initiatives, organized by the WOMBAT consortium (FP7-ICT-216026-WOMBAT).

 

About BADGERS

The BADGERS workshop is intended to encourage the development of large scale security-related data collection and analysis initiatives. It will provide an environment to describe already existing real-world, large-scale datasets, and to share with the systems community the return on experiences acquired by analyzing such collected data. Furthermore, novel approaches to collect and study such data sets are welcome.
 

Program

  • Full papers: 15min (presentation) + 5min (Q&A)
  • Short papers: 10min (presentation) + 5min (Q&A)
09:00-09:10 Opening
09:15-09:30 Legal Issues Associated With Data Collection & Sharing (short paper)
J. Westby
09:35-09:55 Study on Information Security and e-Trust in Spanish households
P. San-Jose, S. Rodriguez
10:00-10:30 Break
10:35-10:55 Reflections on the Engineering and Operation of a Large-Scale Embedded Device Vulnerability Scanner
A. Cui, S. Stolfo
11:00-11:20 Blueprints of a Lightweight Automated Experimentation System: A Building Block Towards Experimental Cyber Security
F. Massicotte, M. Couture
11:25-11:45 Statistical Analysis of Honeypot Data and Building of Kyoto 2006+ Dataset for NIDS Evaluation
J. Song, H. Takakura, Y. Okabe, M. Eto, D. Inoue, K. Nakao
11:50-12:05 PREDICT: A Trusted Framework for Sharing Data for Cyber Security Research (short paper)
C. Scheper, S. Cantor, R. Karlsen, R. Osborn, D. Maughan, S. Bikmal, G. Franceschini, C. Hollingsworth, A. Berry
12:05-13:30 Lunch
13:35-13:55 Adversaries' Holy Grail: Access Control Analytics
I. Molloy, J. Lobo, S. Chari
14:00-14:20 On Collection of Large-Scale Multi-Purpose Datasets on Internet Backbone Links
F. Moradi, M. Almgren, W. John, T. Olovsson, P. Tsigas
14:25-14:45 An Experimental Study on the Measurement of Data Sensitivity
Y. Park, S. Gates, W. Teiken, P. Cheng
14:50-15:05 A social-engineering-centric data collection initiative to study phishing (short paper)
F. Maggi, A. Sisto, S. Zanero
15:05-15:30 Break
15:35-15:55 HARMUR: Storing and Analyzing Historic Data on Malicious Domains
C. Leita, M. Cova
16:00-16:20 Sandnet: Network Traffic Analysis of Malicious Software
C. Rossow, C. Dietrich, H. Bos, L. Cavallaro, F. Freiling, M. van Steen, N. Pohlmann
16:25-16:45 Toward a Standard Benchmark for Computer Security Research: The Worldwide Intelligence Network Environment (WINE)
T. Dumitras, D. Shou
16:50-17:10 An Architectural Solution for Data Exchange in Cooperative Network Security Research
B. Trammell, J. Seedorf, G. Bianchi
17:15-17:35 nicter : A Large-Scale Network Incident Analysis System
M. Eto, D. Inque, J.Song, J. Nakazato, K. Ohtaka, K. Nakao
 

Call for Papers

In contrast to the systems community, security researchers have only recently started collecting and looking at large-scale, real-world data (e.g., the EU WOMBAT and the US PREDICT initiatives). It is well known that experimental work is often hampered by concerns such as confidentiality, privacy, and liability. However, the threat landscape is rapidly changing and this represents a growing concern for individuals and organisations. To address these issues appropriately, there is a dire need to better understand the modus operandi and the motivations of the attackers. This can only be achieved by getting access to large-scale, real-world data, and by designing techniques to mine relevant knowledge out of it.

This workshop aims at bringing together people (e.g., researchers, practitioners, system administrators, system programmers) active in the emerging domain of security-related data collection and analysis. By giving visibility to existing solutions, we expect that the workshop will promote and encourage the better sharing of data and knowledge.

By co-locating the BADGERS workshop with EuroSys, we wish to create a bridge between the well-established systems community and the members of the security community who are interested in experimental systems work.

The BADGER workshop solicits two kinds of submissions: Regular papers and work in progress papers. Regular papers should not exceed 8 pages, excluding well-marked appendixes. Work in progress papers should not exceed two pages.

 

Committees

Program co-chairs

  • Engin Kirda (Northeastern University)
  • Thorsten Holz (Ruhr University Bochum)

Program committee

  • Ali Khayam, National University of Science & Technology (NUST), Pakistan
  • Christian Kreibich, International Computer Science Institute
  • Daisuke Inoue, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan
  • David Dagon, Independent
  • Davide Balzarotti, Institute Eurecom
  • Federico Maggi, Politecnico di Milano
  • Jose Nazario, Arbor Networks
  • Julio Canto, Hispasec
  • Marc Dacier, Symantec Research
  • Mihai Christodorescu, IBM Research
  • Paolo Milani Comparetti, Vienna University of Technology
  • Piotr Kijewski, CERT Polska/NASK
  • Sotiris Ioannidis, FORTH
  • William Robertson, UC Berkeley

Website and Support

  • Federico Maggi, Politecnico di Milano

Submissions

Papers can be submitted to the workshop through the HotCrp Submission System that we've set up. Please use the ACM Format
 

Venue

The BADGERS workshop is co-located with the EuroSys 2011 conference. Check the conference page for up-to-date info.