[provenance-challenge] Call for participation: Workshop on Provenance-based Security and Transparent Computing at ProvenanceWeek 2016

[James Cheney]

	 Provenance-based Security and Transparent Computing
   A workshop inspired by the DARPA Transparent Computing program
	       https://sites.google.com/site/pbstc2016/ <https://sites.google.com/site/pbstc2016/>
	Part of Provenance Week, June 6, 2016, Washington DC.
	     http://www2.mitre.org/public/provenance2016/ <http://www2.mitre.org/public/provenance2016/>

PLEASE NOTE: Registration for ProvenanceWeek and for this 
workshop closes Friday, May 20.  No extensions to this deadline are possible.

Transparent Computing is a DARPA research program aimed at using
provenance to improve the security of computer systems. Specifically,
the program aims to use pervasive provenance tracking for data and
threads of execution to understand causality in both individual
systems and networks of systems. As a practical use case and concrete
way to demonstrate effectiveness, the program aims to use that
causality to identify and combat advanced persistent threats (APTs)
against such systems. APTs are often undetectable by policy-based
monitoring or current event log analysis techniques for two key
reasons: they act slowly (over months at a time) to gain and persist
access to target system resources; and they are careful not to violate
either system security policies or user work patterns that would
betray their presence.

This workshop aims to provide a forum for discussing recent
developments in the Transparent Computing project and their
relationship to the broader field of provenance and security research.


== Program ==

 * Invited talk: "Workflow abstraction for implementing security policies", Vasa Curcin, (King's College London)

 * "Combining computational provenance and anomaly detection to reveal cautious, persistent threats" David W. Archer (Galois, Inc.), James Cheney (University of Edinburgh), Hoda Eldardiry (PARC, a Xerox Company), Rui Filipe Lima Maranhão de Abreu (PARC, a Xerox Company), Alan Fern (Oregon State University)

 * "Overview to 'THEIA: Tagging and Tracking of Multilevel Host Events for Transparent Computing and Information Assurance'", Yang Ji (Georgia Institute of Technology)

 * "From DTrace to provenance: bridging the semantic gap", Lucian Carata, Ripduman Sohan, Robert Watson (University of
Cambridge), Arun Thomas (BAE Systems)

== Organizing Committee ==

   James Cheney (chair), University of Edinburgh
   David W. Archer, Galois, Inc.
   Ashish Gehani, SRI International
   Yingbo Song, BAE Systems
   Mukesh Dalal, BAE Systems

== About ProvenanceWeek ==

ProvenanceWeek 2016, June 6-9, 2016, is being hosted by The MITRE
Corporation in McLean, Virginia, USA, a short metro ride from
Washington D.C. The workshops IPAW and TAPP will be co-located during
the week. The workshop "Provenance Based Security and Transparent
Computing" will take place on the morning of June 6. Entry to the
workshop is free but we need to know who is coming (note that
registrations close on May 20!). All registered attendees will be
listed on the workshop Web site. Registration is through the
Provenance Week registration page. Participants are cordially invited
to register for subsequent Provenance Week events.

http://www2.mitre.org/public/provenance2016/registration.html <http://www2.mitre.org/public/provenance2016/registration.html>
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