WSIW'24

10th Workshop on Security Information Workers

August 11, 2024 - Philadelphia, PA

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10th Workshop on Security Information Workers (WSIW'24)

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.

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Software Developers Administrators IT Professionals Intelligence analysts Security Consultans and Educators Privacy Engineers and Professionals

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.

Important Dates
Happening Date (23:59 AoE)
Submission DeadlineThursday, May 23, 2024
Acceptance NotificationThursday, June 6, 2024
Camera-Ready Papers DueThursday, June 20, 2024
WorkshopSunday, August 11, 2024
Venue
Picture of the front of Philadelphia Marriot
Philadelphia Marriott Downtown

1201 W Market Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107
USA
+1 215.625.2900

Agenda

TBA

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.

Information Workers
The area of security/privacy information workers includes:
  • 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.
Topics
This workshop aims to develop and stimulate discussion about security information workers. We will consider topics including but not limited to:
  • 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, May 23, 2024 23:59 AoE (Anywhere on Earth).

Format:

Submissions may be made at: https://wsiw2024.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 5 minutes of questions and answers. Presentations can be in-person or remotely using Zoom.

Organization

Program Committee