ICDM Workshop on
Data Mining for Computer Security (DMSEC)

Computer security is a broad field that encompasses issues both theoretical and practical aspects. It is of incredible importance to a wide variety of practical domains ranging from the banking industry to multi-national corporations, from space exploration to the intelligence community and so on. Of interest to this workshop are methods that address two aspects of computer security. The first relates to how computers can be used to secure the information contained within an organizations. Issues of critical importance here could include the detection and/or prevention of unauthorized access or attacks on computers and networks local to an organization or entity. The second relates to how computers can be used to detect hostile activity in a sensitive area (such as in an airport). Such techniques will have to work side by side with computer vision technology. Data mining techniques are useful in identifying patterns of activities that can suggest friend or foe. The technical issues of data mining for computer security fall into three dimensions:

1. Computer security tasks ("what"):
   • prevention
   • detection
   • response
   • attribution
2. Locations/resources to be protected ("where"):
   • network
   • operating system
   • application
   • sensitive geographical location
3. Data mining methods ("how")

Workshop Notes and Slides

• Workshop Notes
• Slides

Schedule

• Invited speakers: Tom Goldring, National Security Agency and Sal Stolfo, Columbia University
• Schedule

Attending the Workshop

• Registration, hotel, travel information at the ICDM conference web site
• Deadline for discounted early-registration fees for the DMSEC workshop and the ICDM conference: Oct 17
• Deadline for discounted hotel rates: Oct 31, 5pm

Call for Papers

Online Paper Submission

Important Dates:

• Paper submission deadline: Aug 22, 2003
• Acceptance notification: Sep 30, 2003
• Final version deadline: Oct 17, 2003
• Workshop: Nov 19, 2003

Organizing Committee:

• Philip Chan, Florida Tech, pkc AT cs DOT fit DOT edu
• Vipin Kumar, U. Minnesota, kumar AT cs DOT umn DOT edu
• Wenke Lee, Georgia Tech, wenke AT cc DOT gatech DOT edu
• Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Ohio State U, srini AT cis DOT ohio-state DOT edu

Program Committee:

• Wenke Lee, Georgia Tech (Co-Chair)
• Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Ohio State U (Co-Chair)

• Daniel Barbara, GMU
• Philip Chan, Florida Tech
• Eleazar Eskin, Hebrew U
• Wei Fan, IBM Watson
• Anup Ghosh, DARPA
• Sushil Jajodia, GMU
• Vipin Kumar, U. Minnesota
• Terran Lane, U. New Mexico
• Aleksandar Lazarevic, U. Minnesota
• Richard Lippmann, MIT Lincoln Lab
• Matthew Mahoney, Florida Tech
• Roy Maxion, CMU
• Chris Michael, Cigital
• R. Sekar, Stony Brook U
• Jaideep Srivastava, U. Minnesota
• Salvatore Stolfo, Columbia U
• Kymie Tan, CMU
• Alfonso Valdes, SRI