International Workshop on Big Data Analytics for Cyber Threat Hunting

CyberHunt 2020


Computer Security & Cryptography Security & Trust & Testing



The IEEE International Workshop on Big Data Analytics for Cyber Threat Hunting (CyberHunt 2020) is organized by the Digital Security Research Group of the University of Oslo (Norway) in conjunction with the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2020). The workshop will be held during Dec 10-13, 2020, in Atlanta, GA, USA.
CyberHunt 2020 Website: http://cyberhunt2020.cyberhunt.no/
IEEE BigData Website: http://bigdataieee.org/BigData2020/
As cyber-crimes against critical infrastructure and large organizations increase and evolve, automated systems to supplement human analysis are required. In addition, hunting for breaches is like looking for a needle in a haystack. Such organizations are so large, with so much information and data to sort for actionable intelligence, that just knowing where to begin seems impossible. Intelligence analysis of an attack is traditionally an iterative mainly manual process going through unlimited amounts of data trying to determine sophisticated patterns and behaviors of intruders. Furthermore, most detected intrusions will provide a limited set of attributes about a single phase of an attack. Knowing all the stages of an intrusion accurately and in a timely manner would allow us to aid our cyber detective and preventive capabilities, as well as enrich our cyber threat intelligence and facilitate immediate threat information sharing, since we put several pieces together. The workshop is expected to address the aforementioned issues and will aim at presenting novel research in the area of cyber-threat hunting, cyber-threat intelligence, Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response. The research can have a special focus on AI and Big Data.
#Research Topics#
Any novel research related to cyber threat intelligence, incident and threat response, threat hunting, and security automation and orchestration is welcome.
Some suggested topics are:
Cyber Threat Intelligence (strategic, operational, tactical, technical)
Models for forecasting cyber-attacks and measuring impact
Threat actor groups & techniques
Semantic modeling, data representation, and fusion for CTI
Models that take into consideration Deception and Uncertainty in cyber-attack attribution
Indicators of compromise and how to detect/mitigate
Visualization techniques for intelligence analysis and investigation
Legal, privacy and ethical factors in intelligence analysis
Data analytics for security
Threat Hunting
Intrusion and anomaly detection and prevention
Incident Response
Monetization of cybercrime
Open Source tools
Relevant geopolitical cybersecurity research
Security Automation
Security Orchestration
#The Organizing Committee#
Vasileios Mavroeidis – University of Oslo, Norway (vasileim@ifi.uio.no) - Chair
Audun Jøsang – University of Oslo, Norway (audun.josang@mn.uio.no) - Co-chair
Nils Gruschka - University of Oslo, Norway (nilsgrus@ifi.uio.no) - PC-chair
Tamas Bisztray - University of Oslo, Norway (tamasbi@ifi.uio.no) - Publicity chair
#Program Committee#
- Andrii Shalaginov, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
- Audun Jøsang, University of Oslo, Norway
- Bill Buchanan, Edinburgh Napier University, UK
- Blerim Rexha, University of Prishtina, Kosovo
- Fabio Massimo Zennaro, University of Oslo, Norway
- Fatbardh Veseli, Goethe University Frankfurt/Capgemini, Germany
- Henning Maagerud, Research Council of Norway, Norway
- Hårek Haugerud, Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet), Norway
- Jassim Happa, University of Oxford, UK
- Kai Rannenberg, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
- Keith Martin, Royal Holloway University of London, UK
- Laszlo Erdodi, University of Oslo, Norway
- Martin Aastrup Olsen, Fingerprint Cards, Denmark
- Nils Gruschka, University of Oslo, Norway
- Panagiotis Karampelas, Hellenic Air Force Academy, Greece
- Pierre Lison, Norwegian Computing Center, Norway
- Siri Bromander, Mnemonic, Norway
- Tamas Bisztray, University of Oslo, Norway
- Øyvind Ytrehus, University of Bergen/Simula, Norway
#Paper Guidelines#
The authors are invited to submit a full-length paper (up to 10 pages) or short papers (up to 6 pages).
Papers should be formatted to the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscript Formatting Guidelines. You can find more information at the official IEEE BigData Webpage - http://bigdataieee.org/BigData2020/CallPapers.html