SADFE (Systematic Approaches to Digital Forensic Engineering) promotes systematic approaches to digital forensic investigation on failures of today’s cyber systems and networks. SADFE furthers Digital Forensic Engineering (DFE) advancement as a disciplined and holistic scientific practice.

The 12th International Conference on Systematic Approaches to Digital Forensic Engineering (SADFE) is calling for paper submissions in the broad field of Digital Forensics from both practitioner and researcher’s perspectives. With the dynamic change and rapid expansion of the types of electronic devices, networked applications, and investigation challenges, systematic approaches for automating the process of gathering, analyzing and presenting digital evidence are in unprecedented demands. The SADFE conference aims at promoting solutions for related problems.

Past speakers and attendees of SADFE have included computer scientists, social scientists, forensic practitioners, lawyers and judges. The synthesis of hard technology and science with social science and practice forms the foundation of this conference. Papers focusing on any of the system, legal, or practical aspects of digital forensics are solicited.

This workshop is aimed at academic and industrial researchers interested in the application of deep learning methods to computer security problems. How can modern deep learning boost traditional security systems? What are the imminent threats? What are the new avenues that deep learning opens for attacking security problems? Experts from Deep Learning will present what is possible to do with DL tools and Experts from the security community will identify problems that can potentially be solved.

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The threat of malicious insiders to organizational security has historically been one of the most difficult challenges to address. Insiders often attack using authorized access and with behavior very difficult to distinguish from normal activities. Today, insider attacks are further enabled by immense data storage capabilities, advanced searching algorithms, and the difficulty of comprehensive monitoring of networked systems. Because the actions that occur during insider attacks look much like normal user activities, this exacerbates the technical challenges of proposed solutions to reduce the high incidence of false positives. Furthermore, several recent high-profile attacks have been enabled by non-malicious, or unintentional, insiders fooled by exploits from external attackers.

WRIT will focus on research that proposes solutions to insider threat problems from diverse viewpoints, such as innovative approaches that integrate concepts from information technology, behavioral sciences, or criminology, as well as research that advances the state of art and practice in experimental methods for collecting data that addresses key challenges in evaluating and validating proposed models and solutions. The workshop will therefore be accessible to both non-experts interested in learning about this area and experts interesting in hearing about approaches being taken by others.

As computing and communication systems continue to expand and offer new services, these advancements require more dynamic, diverse, and interconnected computing infrastructures. Unfortunately, defending and maintaining resilient and trustworthy operation of these complex systems are increasingly difficult challenges. Conventional approaches to Security, Trust, Assurance and Resilience (STAR for short) are often too narrowly focused and cannot easily scale to manage large, coordinated and persistent attacks in these environments.

Designs found in nature are increasingly used as a source of inspiration for STAR and related networking and intelligence solutions for complex computing and communication environments. Nature's footprint is present in the world of Information Technology, where there are an astounding number of computational bio-inspired techniques. These well-regarded approaches include genetic algorithms, neural networks, ant algorithms, immune systems just to name a few. For example several networking management and security technologies have successfully adopted some of nature's approaches, such as swarm intelligence, artificial immune systems, sensor networks, moving target defense, diversity-based software design, etc. Nature has also developed an outstanding ability to recognize individuals or foreign objects and adapt/evolve to protect a group or a single organism. Solutions that incorporate these nature-inspired characteristics often have improved performance and/or provided new capabilities beyond more traditional methods.

The aim of this BioSTAR workshop is to bring together the research accomplishments provided by the researchers from academia and the industry. The other goal is to show the latest research results in the field of nature-inspired STAR aspects in computing and communications.

Advances in technology come with countless benefits for society, but these advances sometimes introduce new risks as well. Various characteristics of technology, including its increasing complexity, may present novel challenges in understanding its impact and addressing its risks. Regulatory agencies have broad jurisdiction to protect consumers against certain harmful practices (typically called "deceptive and unfair" practices in the United States), but sophisticated technical analysis may be necessary to assess practices, risks, and more. Moreover, consumer protection covers an incredibly broad range of issues, from substantiation of claims that a smartphone app provides advertised health benefits to the adequacy of practices for securing sensitive customer data.

The Workshop on Technology and Consumer Protection (ConPro ’18) will explore computer science topics with an impact on consumers. This workshop has a strong security and privacy emphasis, with an overall focus on ways in which computer science can prevent, detect, or address the potential for technology to deceive or unfairly harm consumers. Participants will consist heavily of academic and industry researchers but are also expected to include researchers from the Federal Trade Commission—the U.S. government's primary consumer protection body—and other government agencies with a consumer protection mission. Research advances presented at the workshop may help improve the lives of consumers, and discussions at the event may help researchers understand how their work can best promote consumer welfare given laws and norms surrounding consumer protection.