Call for Participation

With the enormous amounts of data from ever-expanding sources, how can we apply the power of scalable analytics to this large-scale data to protect our systems from cyber threats—both internal and external? FloCon 2025's theme, Situational Awareness: Beyond the Network, focuses on using these analytics to safeguard organizations and networks.

Abstracts for presentations, posters, and demonstrations must describe the theory, creation, implementation, and/or operational use of data to support the analytic processes and procedures of public, private, and hybrid cloud environments.

FloCon 2025 focuses on applying analytics from data observed from all vantage points on enterprise networks. Everyone who is interested in data-driven security is invited to submit abstracts for this conference. We are particularly interested in new, innovative ways to use Big Data to address thorny security problems. Ideally, participants will leave your presentation with new insights they can put into practice right away, code you’ve shared from a successful project, or new analytics they can implement.

If you’ve attended FloCon before, welcome back! Network data analysis is still an important part of FloCon. Now you'll have the opportunity to share your work with a wider cross-section of data analysts and security professionals.

Submit Abstract

Abstracts Due
December 20, 2024

Details

Abstracts should explore large-scale, next-generation analysis of cyber security data to support operations. We are seeking submissions related to academic and practical advances in cyber operations that utilize enterprise data at scale to automate well-known or novel techniques, create novel insight into the risk posture of a network, or optimize data architecture design to extend visibility across longer times or broader network scope.

Your final presentation, poster, or demonstration must contain sufficient detail to illustrate the analysis conceptually.

Guidelines

Use the Sessionize platform to submit an abstract of 250-500 words that describes your entry, along with the type of entry (i.e., presentation, poster, or demonstration).

Abstracts will be reviewed and accepted on a first-come, first-served basis.

Questions?

If you have questions or comments about submitting FloCon abstracts, email us at flocontact@cert.org.

Submission Topics

Possible topics for FloCon presentations, posters, and demonstrations include (but are not limited to)

Using automated decision support
Modeling for network defense
Dealing with false positives and negatives
Using CSIRT data for 2024 and beyond
Working with network defense and encrypted traffic
Integrating data from multiple sources (data fusion)
Breaking down and optimizing analyst workflow
Employing scalable statistical techniques
Exploring case studies in threat detection and mitigation
Applying operational data visualization and visual display techniques
Exploring new techniques derived from new data sources
Modeling networks for threat detection
Improving security data operations by fusing network data with biometric, forensic, and physical security data
Applying big data analytics and visualization techniques to security data analysis

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