1st International Workshop on Autonomous Cybersecurity (AutonomousCyber 2024)

In conjunction with the 31st ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS 2024), 18th Oct 2024, Salt Lake City, U.S.A

AutonomousCyber 2024 aims to showcase groundbreaking developments in autonomous cybersecurity, highlighting the transformative impact of self-reliant systems in the cybersecurity landscape. The workshop seeks to gather a diverse mix of researchers and practitioners to discuss, disseminate, and develop new ideas that merge advanced Machine Learning (ML) systems with cutting-edge automation techniques. Such integrations include automated patch management and incident response systems, paving the way for a new era of autonomous cybersecurity solutions.

Important Dates

• Paper Submission Deadline: July 08, 2024
• Author Notification: August 12, 2024
• Camera Ready Paper Submission: August 30, 2024

Topics of Interest

We invite contributions that push the boundaries of autonomous cybersecurity through original, unpublished, and innovative research. This workshop is an excellent platform for presenting state-of-the-art methodologies, cutting-edge technologies, and practical applications that contribute to the advancement of self-resilient digital defense systems. Join us at AutonomousCyber 2024 to be part of a premier event driving the next wave of cybersecurity solutions. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

• Development of autonomous threat detection and mitigation algorithms
• Intelligent agents and human-machine-teaming (HMT) for proactive cyber defense
• Development of simulators and environments for testing and validating autonomous cybersecurity systems
• Architectural innovations in autonomous cyber defense
• Empirical studies and emerging applications of autonomous systems in cybersecurity
• Theoretical and practical insights into cognitive models for enhancing threat intelligence
• Advanced strategies and technologies in autonomous cyber incident response
• Recent developments on risk-based moving target defence
• Breakthroughs in autonomous digital forensics
• Ethical, technical, and operational aspects of deploying autonomous offensive cybersecurity operations
• Innovations in continuous compliance monitoring
• Exploration of autonomous defensive strategies
• Autonomous conformance checking based on intelligence-based regulatory technology (RegTech)
• Self-learning security systems for IoT devices
• Ethical considerations in autonomous cybersecurity operations
• Evaluating the reliability of autonomous cybersecurity tools
• The role of blockchain in enhancing autonomous cyber defenses
• Integration of blockchain in autonomous security protocols
• Autonomous cybersecurity in critical infrastructure protection
• Development of self-healing systems in cybersecurity
• Privacy concerns with autonomous cybersecurity solutions
• Adaptive cybersecurity frameworks for dynamic environments
• Secure autonomous decision-making under uncertainty
• The impact of quantum computing on autonomous cybersecurity
• Interoperability of autonomous systems across different platforms
• Case studies of successful autonomous cybersecurity implementations

Committees

Workshop Chairs

• Ali Dehghantanha, University of Guelph, ON, Canada
• Reza M. Parizi,  Kennesaw State University, USA
• Gregory Epiphaniou, University of Warwick, UK

Publication Chair

• Abbas Yazdinejad, University of Guelph, ON, Canada

Publicity Chair

• Tooska Dargahi, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

Program Committee

• Haider Al-Khateeb, Aston University, UK
• Andy Applebaum, Apple Inc, USA
• Ehab Al-Shaer, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Benjamin C. M. Fung, McGill University, Canada
• Patrick Dwyer, Apple Inc, USA
• Mohammad Hamoudeh, King Fahad University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia
• Malka Halgamuge, RMIT University, Australia
• Chris Hicks, Alan Turing Institute, UK
• Andrew Hamilton, Cybriant, USA
• Alireza Jolafai, Flinders University, Australia
• Vasilis Katos, Bournemouth University, UK
• Ryan K. L. Ko, University of Queensland St Lucia, Australia
• Georgios Loukas, University of Greenwich, UK
• Vasilios Mavroudis, Alan Turing Institute, UK
• Carsten Maple, University of Warwick, UK
• Z. Morley Mao, University of Michigan, USA
• Mohammad S. Khan, East Tennessee State University, USA
• Nick Pitropakis, Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland
• Ahmad Ridley, Laboratory for Advanced Cybersecurity Research, USA
• Ali Safaa Sadiq Al Shakarchi, Nottingham Trent University, UK
• Gautam Srivastava, Brandon University, Canada
• Jeff Schwartzentruber, eSentire Inc, ON, Canada
• Derrick Sturisky, Quantum Computing Inc., USA
• Andre Weimerskirch, Lear Corporation, USA
• Melody Wolk, Apple Inc, USA
• Kaiwen Zhang, École de technologie supérieure, Canada
• Xiaojie Zhu, KAUST, Saudi Arabia

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

• Full research papers on any topic in autonomous cybersecurity
• Position, new ideas, and emerging problems papers discussing emerging and upcoming issues in the broader area of autonomous cybersecurity
• SoK papers, systematization-of-knowledge papers, evaluate, systematize, and contextualize existing knowledge in areas related to autonomous cybersecurity.

Authors should indicate the paper type in the submission form. Paper submissions can be 10 pages in double-column ACM format, excluding the bibliography and well-marked appendices, and at most 12 pages overall. Committee members are not required to read the appendices, so the paper should be intelligible without them. Submissions must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings and should provide enough details to enable reproducibility. All submitted papers must be in English, anonymous, with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, or obvious references, for double-blind reviews. Papers should be in LaTeX and we recommend using the ACM format. Please follow the main CCS formatting instructions (except with page limits as described above). In particular, we recommend using the sigconf template, which can be downloaded from https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk immediate rejection.

One author of each accepted paper is required to attend the workshop and present the paper for it to be included in the proceedings. Accepted papers will be published by the ACM Press and/or the ACM Digital Library.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to ali@cybersciencelab.com.