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
Overview
Overview
Welcome to the inaugural edition of AutonomousCyber 2024, a pioneering workshop embedded within the ACM CCS 2024 program dedicated to the rapidly evolving field of Autonomous Cybersecurity (AutonomousCyber). This special edition marks a significant milestone in our collaborative journey to explore the frontiers of cybersecurity innovations. Our focus is on the integration and advancement of autonomous systems designed to enhance the security of enterprise networks.
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.
The essence of autonomous cybersecurity lies in its ability to transcend traditional automation, offering systems that are:
- Self-Improving: These systems evolve autonomously, enhancing their capabilities without human intervention, thus staying ahead of new threats and environmental changes.
- Continuously Learning: Autonomous cybersecurity systems increase resilience and adaptability through ongoing learning from new data.
- Predictive Capabilities: Beyond reactive measures, these systems anticipate and mitigate potential threats by analyzing emerging patterns and behaviors.
- Automatically Customized and Personalized: Autonomous systems provide targeted and effective security measures by tailoring their responses to fit specific network environments and threat landscapes.
Topics of Interest
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We invite contributions that push the boundaries of autonomous cybersecurity through original, unpublished, and innovative research.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
Committee
Committee
Workshop Chairs
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- Ali Dehghantanha, University of Guelph, ON, Canada
- Reza M. Parizi, Kennesaw State University, USA
- Gregory Epiphaniou, University of Warwick, UK
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- Abbas Yazdinejad, University of Guelph, ON, Canada
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- Tooska Dargahi, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Programme
Programme
The following times are on MDT (Mountain Daylight Time) UTC/GMT-6 hours.
| 9:00 – 10:30 AM |
Autonomous Cybersecurity: Evolving Challenges, Emerging Opportunities, and Future Research Trajectories Authors: Ali Dehghantanha, Abbas Yazdinejad, Reza M. Parizi PenHeal: A Two-Stage LLM Framework for Automated Pentesting and Optimal Remediation Auto-CIDS: An Autonomous Intrusion Detection System for Vehicular Networks |
| 10:30 – 11:00 AM |
Morning Coffee Break |
| 11:00 – 12 PM |
Automated APT Defense Using Reinforcement Learning and Attack Graph Risk-based Situation Awareness Authors: Anh Tuan Le, Gregory Epiphaniou, Carsten Maple, Konstantinos G. Kyriakopoulos, Lincoln Kiarie, Marios Aristodemou, Iain Phillips |
| 12:00 – 1:30 PM |
Lunch |
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1:30 – 3:00 PM |
Entity-based Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Cyber Defence Authors: Isaac Symes Thompson, Alberto Caron, Chris Hicks, Vasilios Mavroudis P3GNN: A Privacy-Preserving Provenance Graph-Based Model for Autonomous APT Detection in Software Defined Networking |
| 3:00 – 3:30 PM |
Afternoon Coffee Break |
| 3:30 – 4:30 PM |
Towards Autonomous Cybersecurity: An Intelligent AutoML Framework for Autonomous Intrusion Detection Authors: Li Yang, Abdallah Shami |
| 4:30 – 5 PM |
Award Announcement |
Submission Details
Submission Guidelines
We invite the following types of papers:
- 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. For questions about these policies, please contact ali@cybersciencelab.com.
Important Dates
- Paper Submission Deadline:
July 08, 2024July 10, 2024 (Firm, anywhere in the world) - Author Notification:
August 12, 2024August 14, 2024 - Camera Ready Paper Submission: August 30, 2024
Registration & Attendance
Registration & Attendance
To attend the workshop, you can register for the Post-conference Workshop or Full Conference. At least one author per accepted paper, poster, or demo must register for the Post-conference Workshop or Full Conference. One author can only register for one paper, poster, or demo at most. Students must show proof of student status upon their arrival.
To register, please follow the instructions here.
AutonomousCyber 2024 is a pioneering workshop embedded within the ACM CCS 2024 program dedicated to showcasing groundbreaking developments in autonomous cybersecurity, highlighting the transformative impact of self-reliant systems in the cybersecurity landscape.
AutonomousCyber 2024 offers workshop sponsorship opportunities at the gold, silver, and bronze levels, as described below. This will be an opportunity to become a proud sponsor of the workshop where you can network and showcase your company’s latest R&D effort and products to an international community of cybersecurity researchers and practitioners.
In addition to the workshop sponsorship, we offer the opportunity to facilitate an upgrade to include a conference-level sponsorship.
Key facts:
- Workshop date: October 18, 2024
- Format: In-person
- Location: Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Workshop Sponsorship Benefits:
- Small Logo displayed
- 1 Sponsored social media posts
- Logo and company name (online)
- Sponsorship acknowledgement post (online)
- Upgrade to include conference attendance
- Starts from USD 1,010
- Upgrade to conference level sponsorship
- Starts from USD 3,000
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- Poster displayed
- Advertisement in the workshop programme
- 2 Sponsored social media posts
- Sponsored Interview (online)
- Logo and company name (online)
- Sponsorship acknowledgement post (online)
- Upgrade to include conference attendance
- Starts from USD 1,010
- Upgrade to conference level sponsorship
- Starts from USD 3,000
- Large Logo displayed
- Poster displayed
- Designated table
- Advertisement in the workshop programme
- 3 Sponsored social media posts
- Sponsored Interview (online)
- Sponsored award
- Logo and company name (online)
- Sponsorship acknowledgement post (online)
- Sponsored talk (on-site)
- Upgrade to include conference attendance
- Starts from USD 1,010
- Upgrade to conference level sponsorship
- Starts from USD 3,000
- Other creative ideas are also welcomed for sponsorship.
- Designated table, logo and poster displayed in workshop venue (on-site).
- Online posts and acknowledgements posted on workshop online website and social media accounts (linkedin, x, and instagram).
- Sponsored talk (on-site) is an in-person talk with an opportunity to network. It requires any one of the upgrade options.
- Additional costs apply (listed under upgrade option) to attend the main conference and all related activities. The conference dates are 14-18 October 2024.
- Additional costs apply (listed under upgrade option) for offerings of several sponsorship benefit levels at the conference level across several dates. The conference dates are 14-18 October 2024.