Learning from Authoritative Security Experiment Results

Program Agenda
Day 1: July 18, 2012
08:00 - Breakfast (Provided) and Registration
08:30 - Welcome, Introductions, and Opening Remarks
Session 1
09:00 - Keynote Speaker: "Ignorance: How it Drives Science"
Speaker: Stuart Firestein (Columbia University)
10:15 - BREAK
10:15 - Paper: "Free vs. Transcribed Text for Keystroke-Dynamics Evaluations"
Authors: Kevin Killourhy (CMU) and Roy Maxion (CMU)
11:30 - Paper: "Experience with Heterogeneous Clock-Skew based Device Fingerprinting"
Authors: Swati Sharma (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi), Alefiya Hussain (University of Southern California), Huzur Saran (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi)
12:30 - Lunch (Provided)
Session II
13:30 - Researcher Panel: "Realizing Scientific Methods for Cyber Security"
Moderator: Thomas Carroll (PNNL)
Panelists: David Manz (PNNL), Thomas Edgar (PNNL), and Frank L. Greitzler (PNNL)
15:00 - BREAK
15:15 - Paper: "A Journey Towards Rigorous Cybersecurity Experiments: On the Application of Criminology Theory"
Authors: Michel Cukier (University of Maryland), David Maimon (University of Maryland), Robin Berthier (University of Illinois)
16:15 - Discussion: Challenges, Solutions, and Mitigations to Failures
Leader: Matt Bishop (UC Davis)
17:00 - Closing Comments and Adjourn
18:30 - Group Dinner
Day 2: July 19
08:00 - Breakfast (Provided) and Registration
08:45 - Recap from Wednesday
Session 3
09:00 - Keynote Speaker
Speaker: Roy Maxion (CMU)
10:15 - BREAK
10:30 - Paper: "P2P Hierarchical Botnet Traffic Detection Using Hidden Markov Models"
Authors: Chen Lu (Clemson University), Richard Brooks (Clemson University)
11:30 - Paper: "Self-Identified Experts Lost on the Interwebs: The importance of treating all results as learning experiences"
Authors: Timothy Kelley (Indiana University), Suzanne Lien (Santa Clara University), L. Jean Camp (Indiana University), Douglas Stebila (Queensland University)
12:30 - Lunch
Session 4
13:30 - Government Panel: "The Role of Risk and Failure in Research"
Moderator: Navid Jam (Sandia National Lab)
Panelists: Steve King (DoD), Brad Martin (ODNI), Carl Landwehr (George Washington University), and Cynthia Dion-Schwartz (NSF)
15:00 - BREAK
15:15 - Paper: "Studying Access Control Usability in the Lab: Lessons Learned from Three Studies"
Authors: Kami Vaniea (CMU), Luio Bauer (CMU), Lorrie Faith Cranor (CMU), and Michael K. Reiter (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
16:15 - Discussion: Experiment, Hypotheses, and Methods You'd Like to See: Content for Next Year's Workshop
Discussion Lead: Greg Shannon (CMU-CERT)
17:00 - Adjourn