Workshop Overview

The Learning from Authoritative Security Experiment Results (LASER) Workshop will be held on Tuesday, December 8, 2026, in conjunction with the IEEE Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (IEEE ACSAC).

The 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.

The LASER workshop welcomes broad participation from the cybersecurity community, including authors presenting the experimental aspects of their accepted IEEE ACSAC papers and others interested in contributing to and learning from the discussions. You do not need to be presenting a paper to participate!

Conference papers often emphasize results over experimentation details. LASER provides a forum to dig into approaches, design decisions, tools, datasets, and lessons learned, including what didn’t work on the way to success.

The workshop will feature eight selected presentations and a keynote talk. Sessions will be highly interactive, with authors guiding discussion around their experimental methodology, execution, and results.

See the Call for Participation for details on how to participate.