The LASER Workshop

Workshop Overview

The Learning from Authoritative Security Experiment Results (LASER) workshop series focuses on learning from and improving cybersecurity experimental results. LASER explores both positive and negative results, the latter of which are not often published. LASER's overarching goal is to foster a dramatic change in the paradigm of cyber security research and experimentation, improving the overall quality of practiced science.

This year, LASER's goal will be to improve the rigor and quality of security experimentation by providing a venue where cybersecurity researchers can discuss experimental methods and present research that exemplifies sound scientific practice. We specifically seek papers that document well-designed cybersecurity experiments with either positive or negative results, experimental techniques that help address common sources of error, and attempts to replicate previously published experiments (whether successful or not).

Participants will find LASER to be a constructive and highly interactive venue featuring informal paper presentations and extended discussions. To promote a high level of interaction, attendance will be limited, with first preference given to participating authors and program committee members. Additional seats will be available on a first-come first-served basis.

LASER also seeks to foster good science in the next generation of cyber security researchers. As such, LASER offers a limited number of student scholarships for participation.

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Proceedings & Materials

The 2017 LASER proceedings are published by USENIX.

Papers, Slides & Videos

  • Welcome and IntroductionsTerry Benzel Slides PDF
  • Understanding Malware's Network Behaviors using FantasmXiyue Deng, Hao Shi, Jelena Mirkovic Paper PDF Slides PDF USENIX
  • Open-source Measurement of Fast-flux Networks While Considering Domain-name ParkingLeigh B. Metcalf, Dan Ruef, Jonathan M. Spring Paper PDF Slides PDF USENIX
  • Invited Talk: The Advancement of Science in Cyber SecurityLaurie Williams Slides PDF USENIX
  • Panel Discussion: Methodological Issues with IoT Experimentation Slides (Lalonde Levesque) PDF Slides (Goodfellow) PDF
  • Lessons Learned from Evaluating Eight Password Nudges in the WildKaren Renaud, Joseph Maguire, Verena Zimmerman, Steve Draper Paper PDF USENIX
  • An Empirical Investigation of Security Fatigue: The Case of Password Choice after Solving a CAPTCHAKovila P.L. Coopamootoo, Thomas Gross, Muhammad F. R. Pratama Paper PDF Slides PDF USENIX
  • Invited Talk: She Blinded Me with Science: Understanding Misleading, Manipulative, and Deceptive CybersecurityJosiah Dykstra Slides PDF USENIX
  • Dead on Arrival: Recovering from Fatal Flaws in Email Encryption ToolsJuan Ramón Ponce Mauriés, Kat Krol, Simon Parkin, Ruba Abu-Salma, M. Angela Sasse Paper PDF Slides PDF USENIX
  • The Impacts of Representational Fluency on Cognitive Processing of Cryptography ConceptsSumra Bari, Joseph Beckman, Victor Chen, Melissa Dark, Baijian Yang Paper PDF Slides PDF USENIX
  • Self-Protective Behaviors Over Public WiFi NetworksDavid Maimon, Michael Becker, Sushant Patil, Jonathan Katz Paper PDF Slides PDF USENIX
  • Measuring the Success of Context-Aware Security Behaviour SurveysIngolf Becker, Simon Parkin, Angela Sasse Paper PDF Slides PDF USENIX

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