Workshop Overview

The Learning from Authoritative Security Experiment Results (LASER) workshop series focuses on learning from and improving cybersecurity experiment results. The workshop strives to provide a highly interactive, collegial environment for discussing and learning from experimental methodologies, execution, and results. Ultimately, the workshop seeks to foster a dramatic change in the experimental paradigm for cybersecurity research, improving the overall quality and reporting of practiced science.

Each year, the LASER committee chooses a slightly different focus and approach to help the community reach the overall goals of the effort.

This year, the LASER workshop invites participation by authors of accepted NDSS papers to come together to explore and discuss the experimental aspects of their work. Conference papers all too often must focus on research results and contain limited discussion of the experimental aspects of the work. LASER will provide authors the opportunity to lead focused discussion on the experimental approaches and methodologies used to obtain their results.

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Proceedings & Materials

Papers, Slides & Videos

  • Welcome, Introductions, Workshop Goals and Agenda Slides PDF
  • VICEROY: GDPR-/CCPA-compliant Enforcement of Verifiable Accountless Consumer RequestsYoshimichi Nakatsuka (University of California, Irvine) Slides PDF Abstract & Speakers NDSS Paper
  • BinaryInferno: Experiment Design and Evaluation Considerations When Reverse Engineering Message Formats from Network TracesJared Chandler (Tufts University) Slides PDF Abstract & Speakers NDSS Paper
  • Human-Subject Research Strategies on Social Media MisinformationFilipo Sharevski (DePaul University) Slides PDF Abstract & Speakers NDSS Paper
  • Investigating HbbTV Privacy Invasiveness Across European CountriesCarlotta Tagliaro (TU Wien) Slides PDF Abstract & Speakers NDSS Paper
  • Keynote: Cybersecurity Experimentation of the FutureJelena Mirkovic (USC Information Sciences Institute) Slides PDF Abstract & Speaker
  • Measuring Messengers: Analyzing Infrastructures and Message Timings to Extract User Locations in Instant MessengersTheodor Schnitzler (Research Center Trustworthy Data Science and Security, TU Dortmund, and Ruhr-Universität Bochum) Slides PDF Abstract & Speakers NDSS Paper
  • Evaluating Wireless Attacks Against CCS Electric Vehicle ChargingSebastian Köhler (University of Oxford) Slides PDF Abstract & Speakers NDSS Paper
  • Wrap-up Slides PDF