IEEE Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI) 2009 Conference

[ISI 2009 -- Dallas, Texas]

Workshops & Tutorials

Three Workshops and three Tutorials were held at IEEE ISI 2009. These workshops and tutorials required payment of separate fees; refer to the Registration page for costs:

Workshop 1: 2nd International Workshop on Social Computing (SOCO 2009)
Workshop 2: 2nd Workshop on Cybercrime and Computer Forensics (WCCF 2009)
Workshop 3: Assured Information Sharing [new!]
Tutorial 1: Data Mining for Security Applications
Tutorial 2: Secure and Private Social Networks* [new!]
Tutorial 3: Lawfully-Authorized Electronic Surveillance for Wireless Communications Subscribers: Requirements and Technology Overview

* Please note that the tutorial "Attack-Norm Separation based on Statistical/Mathematical Characteristics of Cyber Attack Data and Normal Use Data" has been cancelled.

See below for additional information and links to the workshop websites:

Workshop 1: Second International Workshop on Social Computing (SOCO 2009)

Social computing can be broadly defined as computational facilitation of social studies and human social dynamics as well as the design and use of information and communication technologies that consider social context. The Second International Workshop on Social Computing (SOCO 2009) intends to bring together social computing researchers from a wide spectrum of academic disciplines to (a) report and review the current state of the art of social computing research and its applications, (b) identify key technical challenges facing social computing studies; and (c) provide a forum to bring together researchers and practitioners to identify future research opportunities. SOCO 2009 is part of the pre-conference workshop series of the IEEE ISI 2009.

Workshop 2: Second Workshop on Cybercrime and Computer Forensics (WCCF 2009)

Government agencies, corporations, and individuals all use computers, cell phones, digital cameras, and other electronic devices to produce, store, and transmit data at an increasingly faster rate. One unfortunate consequence of expanded growth in data and interconnectivity is that criminals now have easy access to a large number of potential victims to commit identity thefts, spread virus and spyware, launch Denial-of-Service attacks, and commit other types of malicious acts. The 2009 Workshop on Cybercrime and Computer Forensics (WCCF 2009) will provide a forum for professionals in the computer forensics community and IT security industry, forensic computing software vendors, corporate and academic researchers, in an effort to disseminate ideas and experiences related to forensic computing especially in the context of cybercrime investigation. See the Workshop website for detailed information on topics etc.

Workshop 3: Assured Information Sharing

Information sharing is critical for organizations in defense, intelligence and healthcare among other. However it is also important for the organizations to enforce appropriate policies so that only certain information is shared. For example, an agency may want to share all of its data with as local agency and only certain data with a foreign agency. The policies may include those for enforcing confidentiality, privacy and trust. The workshop will explore approaches to information sharing together with policy management. It will bring together members from academia, industry and government to address this important topic. The output of the workshop will be published as a book on Assured Information Sharing to be edited by the workshop chairs. Additional information about this workshop is forthcoming.

Tutorial 1: Data Mining for Security Applications

Tutorial Leaders: Latifur Khan and Mohammad Mehedy Masud.
In this tutorial, we will discuss various data mining techniques for malware detection and network intrusion detection including current state of the art. First, we will present Email worm detection using behavioral and statistical analysis. Second, we will present techniques for detecting malicious executables using multi-level features. Third, we will present techniques for detecting remote exploits using mining. Fourth, we will present network traffic mining by exploiting stream mining classification techniques. Fifth, we will present classification techniques to handle stream mining for limited labeled training data. Finally, we will present techniques to detect entirely brand new class/attack in the stream data. See the tutorial page for additional information.

Tutorial 2: Secure and Private Social Networks

Tutorial leader: Murat Kantarcioglu, Ph.D.
On-line social networks (OSNs) are platforms that allow people to publish details about themselves and to connect to other members of the network through friendship links. The existence of OSNs that include person-specific information creates both interesting opportunities and challenges. For example, social network data could be used for suspicious event detection. At the same time, security and privacy concerns can prevent such efforts in practice. This tutorial will address the security and privacy issues in online social networks and discuss how to use social network data without sacrificing privacy and security. Topics covered will include:
• Efficient access control techniques for online social networks
• Sanitizing online social network data for data analysis
• Attribute, link and identity disclosure issues related to online networks.

Tutorial 3: Lawfully-Authorized Electronic Surveillance for Wireless Communications Subscribers: Requirements and Technology Overview

Tutorial leader: Kafi Hassan, Sprint Nextel Corporation
Voice and data wireless communication devices have became important and convenient way of communications for most of the people around the world. In many places, the wireless cell phones are used more than the traditional landline telephones. Therefore, it became essential to have the wireless communications systems support lawfully-authorized electronic surveillance (LAES) as the landline communications did for a long time. This tutorial is intended to give an overview of the Lawfully-Authorized Electronic Surveillance on wireless communications through an outline that can show from network research and development prospective. This outline describes the standards requirements and challenges on both to the wireless communications networks and to the surveillance technology. As a final point, this tutorial is used to identify some important open areas that need further research in the future. See the tutorial page for additional information and the complete scope of topics that will be covered.