9th Workshop on Security Information Workers (WSIW'23)
The human element is often considered the weakest element in security. Although many kinds of humans interact with systems that are designed to be secure, one particular type of human is especially important, the security and privacy information workers who develop, use, and manipulate privacy and security-related information and data as a significant part of their jobs.
Workshop
The workshop will feature a keynote talk and paper presentations, as well as breakout sessions to provide an opportunity for smaller group interactive discussion about related topics of interest, which may include methods, challenges, and future directions in security information workers research.
| Happening | Date (23:59 AoE) |
|---|---|
| Submission Deadline | Thursday, June 1, 2023 |
| Acceptance Notification | Thursday, June 8, 2023 |
| Camera-Ready Papers Due | Thursday, June 22, 2023 |
| Workshop | Sunday, August 6, 2023 |
Anaheim Marriot
700 W Convention Way
Anaheim, CA 92802
USA
+1 714.750.8000
Agenda
Sunday, August 6, 2021, 2:30pm -- 6:00pm Pacific Daylight TimeWelcome, Introduction, and Workshop Agenda
Communicating on Security within Software Development Issue Tracking
Léon McGregor, Manuel Maarek, and Hans-Wolfgang Loidl (Heriot-Watt University)
Investigating the Experiences of Female CTF Players
Antonio Martorana (Carnegie Mellon University), Emily Chang (University of Virginia), Hanan Hibshi (Carnegie Mellon University), and Alejandro Cuevas (Carnegie Mellon University)
Job Stress in the Cybersecurity Incidence Response Work Role
Janine L Spears (DePaul University)
7 Observations and Research Topics About Security Information Workers
Josiah Dykstra, Ph.D., National Security Agency
Breakout Sessions and Concluding Remarks
Call for Papers
We solicit papers describing new research contributions in the area of security and privacy information workers, as well as case studies, work in progress, preliminary results, novel ideas, and position papers. Successful submissions to this workshop will explicitly be informed by an understanding of how security/privacy information workers do their jobs, and the results will explicitly address how we understand these workers.
You can find out more at http://security-information-workers.org/ or by emailing wsiw@sec.uni-hannover.de.
- Software developers, who design and build software that manages and protects sensitive information;
- Security and system administrators, who deploy and manage security-sensitive software and hardware systems;
- IT professionals, whose decisions have impact on end users' security and privacy;
- Intelligence analysts, who collect and analyze data about security matters to understand information and make predictions;
- Security consultants and educators, who provide guidance to individuals and organizations on practicing good security behaviors and implementing security technologies; and
- Privacy engineers and professionals, who ensure that privacy considerations are built into products and who help develop privacy policie.
- Empirical studies of security/privacy information workers, including case studies, experiments, field studies, and surveys;
- New tools designed to assist security/privacy information workers;
- Infrastructure for better understanding security/privacy information workers;
- Information visualization and other techniques designed to help security/privacy information workers do their jobs;
- Evaluations of tools and techniques for security/privacy information workers
Submission
The deadline for submissions is Thursday, June 01, 2023 23:59 AoE (Anywhere on Earth).
Format:
- Papers should be atmost 6 pages (excluding references).
- Using the SOUPS template format (MS Word, LaTeX).
- Submissions should be fully anonymized.
Submissions may be made at: https://wsiw2023.usenix.hotcrp.com/.
Submission: Papers should be succinct, but thorough in presenting the work. Typical papers will be 5–6 pages long (plus references) but papers can be shorter (e.g., 2–3 pages) if, for example, they present a novel idea with limited preliminary results or a position likely to drive a lively discussion. Shorter, more focused papers are encouraged and will be reviewed like any other paper. If you only need 2 or 4 pages (plus references) to clearly explain your work or idea, please submit a paper of that length. Reviewers will be instructed to assess the value of the talk to the workshop audience irrespective of the paper length; however, we stress again that the presentation should be sufficiently thorough for reviewers to make this evaluation.
Workshop papers will be made available to attendees prior to the workshop. However, they will not appear in the official SOUPS proceedings.
Presentation: Paper presentations will be approximately 12–13 minutes in length followed by 7 minutes of questions and answers. Presentations can be in-person or remotely using Zoom.
Organization
Program Committee
- Yasemin Acar, Paderborn University
- Omer Akgul, University of Maryland
- Sascha Fahl, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
- Kelsey Fulton, University of Maryland
- Ron Thompson, Tufts University
- Daniel Votipka, Tufts University
Web Chair
- Alexander Krause, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security