15th Central Area Networking and Security Workshop

Latest Updates

• [Oct 17, 2022] Poster abstract submission deadline has been extended until Oct 20th. Please use this link to submit your abstract!

• [Oct 17, 2022] Student Travel Grant deadline has been extended until Oct 20th. Notifications will be given on Oct. 21st. Apply here!

• [Oct 11, 2022] Application for Student Travel Grant open. Apply here!

• [Oct 10, 2022] Deadline extended until October 12th

• [Sep 26, 2022] Registration and abstract submission forms are now available.

• [Sep 15, 2022] CANSec'22 Website is live!

Key Dates

• Workshop date: October 22nd, 2022

• Oral abstract submission deadline: October 10th, 2022 October 12th, 2022 (AoE)

• NEW! Poster abstract submission deadline: October 10th, 2022 October 12th, October 20th, 2022 (AoE)

• Notification of acceptance: October 13th, 2022 (Oral),  October 21st (Poster)

• Student travel award application deadline: October 15th, 2022 October 20th, 2022 (AoE)

• Student travel award notification: October 17th, 2022 October 21st, 2022

• Registration deadline: October 20th, 2022

Agenda

• 8:00-9:00 AM Registration 

• 9-9:05 AM Opening 

• 9:05:9:20 AM Welcome Talk: Anthony Muscat (Dean, College of Engineering, WSU)

• 9:20-9:30 AM WSU Cybersecurity Initiatives (Joe Jabara)

• 9:30-9:45 AM Break

• 9:45-11:00 AM Keynote Talk: Dongyan Xu

• 11:00-Noon Session 1

• Noon-1:00 PM Lunch break & poster session

• 1:00-1:30 PM Talk by Li Yang (NSF)

• 1:30-2:30 PM Keynote Talk: Sara Anstey

• 2:30-3:50 PM Session 2 

• 3:50-4:00 PM Break

• 4:00-5:00 PM Session 3

• 5:00-5:10 PM Closing

Technical Sessions

Each presentation should be a 15-minute talk and a 5-minute Q&A session.

Session #1 (11:00-Noon)

Session Chair: Miaoqing Huang 

• 11:00-11:20 AM 

Digital Inclusion for Women Transitioning from Incarceration 

[Rafida Zaman, Baek-Young Choi, Sejun Song]

• 11:20-11:40 AM 

Scheduling Deep Neural Workloads for TurstZone-enabled Real-Time Systems 

[Mohammad Fakhruddin Babar, Monowar Hasan]

• 11:40-noon 

Machine Learning (ML)-Based DeepFake detection Through Corneal-Specular Highlights Images 

[Muhammad Mohzary, Khalid J Almalki, Baek-Young Choi, Sejun Song]

Session #2 (2:30-3:50)

Session Chair: Eugene Vasserman

• 2:30-2:50 PM 

DNP3 Security Enhancement using Programmable Switches

[Zheng Hu, Yanfeng Qu, and Kevin Jin]

• 2:50-3:10 PM 

A Differentially Private Distributed Neural Network Auction for Additive Manufacturing with Edge Devices 

[Amey Shukla, Sergio Salinas]

• 3:10-3:30 PM 

A Short Survey of Cybersecurity in Digital Manufacturing 

[Huabo Lu]

• 3:30-3:50 PM 

Honey Breath: An Ambush Tactic Against Wireless Breath Inference 

[Qiuye He, Edwin Yang, Song Fang, Shangqing Zhao]

Session #3 (4:00-5:00)

Session Chair: Bo Luo

• 4:00-4:20 PM 

LoneNeuron: a Highly-Effective Feature-Domain Neural Trojan Using Invisible and Polymorphic Watermarks

[Zeyan Liu, Fengjun Li, Zhu Li, and Bo Luo]

• 4:20-4:40 PM 

Two Souls in an Adversarial Image: Towards Universal Adversarial Example Detection using Multi-view Inconsistency

[Sohaib Kiani, Sana Awan, Chao Lan, Fengjun Li, Bo Luo]

• 4:40-5:00 PM 

WINK: Wireless Inference of Numerical Keystrokes via Zero-Training Spatiotemporal Analysis

[Edwin Yang, Qiuye He, Song Fang]

Poster Session (during lunch break: Noon-1:30 PM)

• Lightweight Mobile Application for Human Visual DeepFake Detection Using Machine Learning and Corneal-Specular Highlights

[Muhammad Mohzary, Khalid J Almalki, Baek-Young Choi, Sejun Song]

• Distributed Misbehavior Detection in UAV Flocks

[Mohamed Anis Aguida, Sergio Salinas, Monowar Hasan]

• Older Adults’ Privacy Knowledge and Concern Regarding Autonomous Vehicles

[Abigail Davidow, Drew Davidson]

• Simulated Sensor Spoofing on a Real UAV Platform

[Bailey Srimoungchanh, Garrett J. Morris, Drew Davidson]

Call for Participation

We seek submissions presenting original research and education activities on all practical and theoretical aspects of computer and communications security.  Original research contributions that were previously accepted/presented, i.e., work-already-published (WaP) papers, are also acceptable. The participants can deliver an oral presentation or a poster presentation.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Anonymity

• Access control

• Cryptography

• Cybersecurity experimentation

• Database security

• Information assurance education

• Intrusion detection and prevention

• Legal and policy aspects of cybersecurity

• Network security

• Privacy

• Resilience and survivability

• Risk management

• Software security

• Security for cyber-physical systems and Internet of Things

• Edge/Cloud security

• Security for mobile computing platforms

• Security metrics

• Systems security

• Usable security

• Web security

• Wireless security

Abstract Submission

CANSec'22 requires a short abstract (no more than 250 words) for both oral and poster presentations. 

Please use this link to submit your abstract.

CANSec'22 Registration

To register for the CANSec workshop, please fill in this form by October 20th. The registration fee is $20. We will collect the registration fee at the door. If you do not register online by October 20th, you may also register at the door on October 22nd for an additional $25 fee. 

Keynote Speakers

• Dongyan Xu (Purdue)

Talk Title: Experiences and Lessons Learned in Drone Control Security

Speaker Bio: Dongyan Xu is the Samuel D. Conte Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS) at Purdue University. His current research interests include computer systems security and cyber-physical security, especially in the domains of autonomous vehicles, manufacturing systems, and supply chain networks. He has received multiple awards from major cybersecurity conferences for his research papers on kernel malware defense, memory forensics, advanced persistent threat (APT) analytics, and IoT vulnerability discovery.

• Sara Anstey (Novacoast)

Talk Title: Educating Your Guesses: How To Quantify Risk and Uncertainty

Speaker Bio: Sara Anstey is a Data Analytics Manager at Novacoast who is passionate about empowering businesses to use everyday data to make strategic business decisions. She believes that the intentional adoption of a data-driven culture can be a key differentiator to companies in today’s security climate. Sara has experience in custom web development, artificial intelligence, data analytics, business intelligence, and applied statistics.

Student Travel Grants

The Central Area Networking and Security (CANSec) Workshop encourages students to participate in the workshop by providing a travel grant in the range of $50 to $400. This NSF-sponsored travel award aims to partially subsidize travel costs. Note that the travel award is pending budget approval and will be reimbursement based.

The selection process will give preference to (1) students of underrepresented minority groups and (2) presenters of accepted abstracts. 

Apply here for the travel grant.

Hotel

Hyatt Place at Wichita State University (walking distance from the workshop venue)

Other hotel recommendations are available here.

*Note: There is no discounted rate for Hyatt Place available yet. We will update the website with a discount code if such a discount is offered.

About the CANSec Workshop

The Central Area Networking and Security Workshop (CANSec), which was formerly known as the Greater Kansas Area Security Workshop (KanSec), aims to bring together researchers and practitioners in networking and security-related fields in the central area of the US.

Since spring of 2012, the workshop has attracted attendees from Kansas, Missouri, Colorado, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, etc. We have also invited speakers from Texas, Indiana, Colorado, South Carolina, Virginia, etc. The goal of the CANSec workshop is to provide a forum to present research in all areas related to computer networking and security, as well as to promote interactions and collaborations between academia and industry. The workshop was originally organized semi-annually in 2012-2016. Since 2016, the CANSec community decides to change it to an annual event to encourage high-quality work to be presented and demonstrated in the workshop.

Starting from 2014, the CANSec workshop added a Cyber-Defense Competition component to its Fall events. The goal of the competition is to provide students with a platform to apply theoretical knowledge into practice, and to obtain hands-on cyber security experiences. It is a one-day competition, in which student teams will be asked to oversee a small corporate network, to manage all critical services, and to defend against external attacks. Scoring will be primarily based on the availability of the services, and how the attacks and injects are handled.