Supporting the IEEE Secure Development Conference to Bridge the Gap Between Theory and Practice
Abstract
The 2018 IEEE Security Development Conference (IEEE SecDev 2018) will be held at Cambridge, MA from September 30, 2018 to October 2, 2018. I serve as the lead program chair of the conference this year.The SecDev conference continues to establish itself as a venue for promotingconstructive and in-depth defense solutions. The scope of the conference is extremely broad. It???s a platform for any work that ???builds security in??? to systems. The strong emphasis that SecDev places on ???building security in??? means that???unlike most other security conferences???it is not enough for a paper to simply describe an attack or discover a novel vulnerability. Rather, work at SecDev helps us build systems that have strong security guarantees and provides assurance that systems are immune to entire classes of attacks. SecDev has two major changes in this third offering of the conference. We started a call for best practices (BP) papers, seeking work that systematizes the knowledge, experiences, and tools related to cyber defense. Another change isthe new practitioners??? session abstracts (PSA). We seek presentations from cybersecurity professionals working in industry or government, including Office of Naval Research (ONR). It is the first such call among IEEE or ACM security conferences. The practitioners??? session program committee consisted of 20 experts, mostly from industry and government. Both improvements help establish SecDev as the venue for building an informed research communitythat works together to bridge the gap between theory and practice.In this grant request, we ask for $5,000 to cover the operational costs of SecDev ???18. We plan to use the fund to cover the registration costs of invited speakers and some of their travel costs. Virginia Tech has made an exception for this request and will not charge any indirect costs to this grant, if received. Therefore, the entirety of the fund, if received, will be used on SecDev expenses. Virginia Tech Continuing and Professional Education (CPE) will help the PI process the necessary reimbursement requests from attendees.We have successfully put together a strong technical program this year -- 2 keynotes, 2 IEEE award presentations, 7 tutorials, 14 papers, the inaugural 10 practitioners talks from industry and government, 2 IEEE award presentations, and 11 posters. This $5,000 grant will substantially help the conference organizers to improve the technical program, defray the conference operational costs, and better serve the security community in the long run. We greatlyappreciate ONR???s support for SecDev and will ensure that the donation will be properly recognized at the conference.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Oct 17, 2018
- Source ID
- N000141812892
Entities
People
- Danfeng Yao
Organizations
- Office of Naval Research
- United States Navy
- Virginia Tech