CFP

Workshop on Data Mining for Cyber Threat Analysis
in conjunction with
IEEE International Conference on Data Mining
December 9-12, 2002
Maebashi TERRSA, Maebashi City, Japan

As the cost of the information processing and Internet accessibility falls, more and more organizations will be vulnerable by potential cyber threats. According to a recent research survey, cyber attacks have increased by almost 80 percent over the last six months. This indicates that there is an urgent need to expand efforts in the battle against cyber terrorism. The key question is whether contemporary computer technologies such as artificial intelligence and data mining can contribute to this battle and further enhance defense mechanisms.

The main aim of the workshop on cyber threat analysis is to bring together leading figures from academia, military, government and industry to assess the state-of-the-art in the area as well as to explore the applications of data mining to address the problem of cyber threat analysis.

The format of the workshop will consists of one or two plenary talks by key people in the field and oral presentations by authors of selected papers followed by possible panel discussion comprising the best presenters. The workshop may vary in length with an expected duration from half a day up to one day.

TOPICS OF INTEREST:

• Methods to identify the most critical infrastructures
• Methods to detect cyber terrorist attacks
• Methods to protect against cyber terrorism
• Information assurance
• Intrusion detection and analysis via data mining
• Data mining in forensic
• Credit card fraud analysis
• Economic espionage