Call for Participation: Learning from Authoritative Security Experiment Results (LASER) 2021

The Learning from Authoritative Security Experiment Results (LASER) workshop will be held virtually on Thursday, February 25, 2021, in conjunction with the Network and Distributed Systems Security (NDSS) Symposium.

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.

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 papers from major cybersecurity conferences 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 (maybe a small section with a few paragraphs at the end of the paper). LASER will provide authors the opportunity to focus on the experimental approaches and methodologies used to obtain their research results.

Presentations of work are by invitation, based on papers accepted to NDSS 2021. LASER will provide authors of accepted papers the opportunity to present and discuss the experimental aspects of their work with other workshop participants and write new published papers that expand on the experimental aspects of their work.

We also invite open participation by others interested in being part of and learning from such discussions and interaction. To participate, simply register for the workshop.