1st International Workshop on Automated Social Engineering Defense and Attacks (ASEDA 2022)
We cordially invite researchers in social engineering attacks and defense to submit their manuscripts to the first international workshop on automated social engineering defense and attacks.
About the ASEDA Workshop: The 1st International Workshop on Automated Social Engineering Defense and Attacks (ASEDA 2022) creates a forum for researchers and IT industry leaders to share their knowledge and experience on developing theoretical foundations and practical social engineering automation platforms. As a multidisciplinary technical and social problem spanning Computer Science, Psychology, Machine Learning, Economics, and Game Theory (to name a few), the automation of social engineering attacks and employing effective defense strategies is a grand challenging problem. While Truth-Default Theory, deception theory and game theory have been the focus of research for experts in psychology and economics, the automation of these techniques in the context of social engineering is still in its infancy. As an example, research in social engineering analysis can benefit substantially from natural language processing techniques in automatically capturing features related to deception detection and analysis. The extracted features related to deception detection in various forms (e.g., phishing and vishing) can then contribute to comprehending attackers' and defenders' mental models through knowledge graphs. If extracted properly, these textual data can enable building knowledge graphs that can be queried to build knowledge bases for cybersecurity comprehension. The problems related to automation of social engineering attacks and defense demands developing novel applied and theoretical multidisciplinary research in human factors, economics, and machine/deep learning techniques. The workshop encourages submissions of new ideas, frameworks, experimental results, evaluation of social engineering attacks and defense strategies, and exploring emerging problems and techniques. The scope of ASEDA includes, but is not limited to:
- Characterizing social engineering attacks and defenses
- Knowledge extraction and analysis of social engineering attacks and interactions
- Analysis of social engineering attacks using NLP
- NLP for cyber risk detection and management, and mitigation
- Understanding mental models of attacker/defender and their interactions
- Counter social engineering
- Cognitive security
Important Dates:
Paper Submission: December 31, 2021
Acceptance Notification: February 1, 2022
Camera Ready Submission: February 7, 2022
Workshop Date: April 26, 2022
Submission Format: The workshop accepts papers that are a maximum of 10 pages long. Regular papers are at most 10 pages and short papers are at most 6 pages. The papers must be in double-column ACM format. The accepted papers must be presented by at least one author. The presenter of each paper must register for the workshop.
Accepted papers will be included in the digital workshop proceedings. Particularly high-quality accepted papers will be identified and their authors will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to a special issue of a journal.
Workshop Website: For more information about the workshop and submission, please visit the workshop website at: https://sites.google.com/view/aseda2022/home
Contact Information: For further questions regarding the ASEDA workshop, please contact the workshop organizers at:
Akbar Namin, Computer Science, Texas Tech University [ Akbar dot Namin at ttu dot edu ]
Keith S. Jones, Psychological Sciences, Texas Tech University [ Keith dot S dot Jones at ttu dot edu ]
------------------------------
Keith S. Jones, Ph.D.
Accreditation Committee Chair
Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
Professor and Interim Chair
Texas Tech University
------------------------------