16th Central Area Networking and Security Workshop


CANSec 2023 

University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

Saturday, October 14th

Register here!


We are pleased to invite you to the 16th Central Area Networking and Security Workshop (CANSec 2023) on October 14, 2023. The CANSec workshop aims to provide a regular forum for presenting research and education activities in all areas related to computer security and networking, as well as promoting interactions and collaborations among scholars and students and between academia and industry.

Key Dates


Capture-The-Flag (CTP) Competition

 The first CANSec CTF Competition is organized by the University of Kansas Jayhackers. More details are available here. 

 Competition URL: kuisc.org


Agenda


Newcomers Faculty Panel

Moderator: 

Panelists:


Keynote Speaker

The CanSec 2023 keynote speaker is Dr. Dongwon Lee. 

Abstract: The recent explosive advancements in both generative language models in NLP and deepfake-enabling methods in Computer Vision have greatly helped trigger a new surge in AI research and enabled the generation of human-quality artifacts in various modalities. In particular, deepfake texts (i.e., texts generated by large language models) have attracted a lot of interests within research community but equally yielded great concerns in security and privacy among the public. In this talk, I'll first share a few highlighted examples of deepfake media and texts, and then delve into the details of challenges and recent findings in generating and detecting deepfake texts with human-level qualities. Finally, I will conclude the talk by sharing the important implications of deepfakes within the information ecosystem as well as the society at large.

Speaker biography: Dongwon Lee is a professor and director of Ph.D. program in the information school (aka iSchool) at Penn State University, USA. He is also an ACM Distinguished Member (2019) and Fulbright Cyber Security Scholar (2022). Before starting at Penn State, he worked at AT&T Bell Labs, NJ,  and obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA. From 2015 to 2017, he has also served as a Program Director at National Science Foundation (NSF), co-managing cybersecurity education and research programs and contributing to the development of national research priorities. In general, he researches on the problems in the intersection of data science, machine learning, and cybersecurity. Since 2017 he has led the NSF-sponsored SysFake project at Penn State, investigating computational and socio-technical solutions to better combat fake news. More details of his research can be found at here.


Technical Sessions

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


Session #1 (11:15 AM - 12:15 PM)

Session Chair: Song Fang (University of Oklahoma)

Be Careful with PyPI Packages: You May Unconsciously Spread  Backdoor Model Weights

[Tianhang Zheng - University of Missouri in Kansas City]

      Depend  on  That!  An  Exploration  of  Software  Supply  Chain  Security

      [Elizabeth Wyss - University of Kansas]

RT-TEE: Real-time System Availability for Cyber-physical Systems  using ARM TrustZone   

[Jinwen Wang - Washington University in St. Louis]


Session #2 (03:00 - 04:30 PM)

Session Chair: Han Wang (University of Kansas)

Phantom-CSI Attacks against Wireless Liveness Detection 

[Qiuye He- University of Oklahoma]

XCheck: Verifying Integrity of 3D Printed Patient-Specific Devices via Computing Tomography

[Zhiyuan Yu - Washington University in St. Louis]

 Moving without Moving: State of Sensor Vulnerabilities

[Bailey Srimoungchanh - University of Kansas]

A Non-Intrusive Way to Identify Security Cameras with no Paid Subscription

[Yan He - University of Oklahoma]


Poster Session (during lunch break 12:15 - 1:30pm)

[Derrick Jennings, Thanveer Sulthana, and Dr. Baek-Young Choi - University of Missouri in Kansas City]


[Maryam Keshvari, Dr. Sergio Salinas Monroy, Dr. James Steck - Wichita State University]


[Adaeze Okeukwu-Ogbonnaya, George Amariucai - Kansas State University]


[Amirmasoud Pourmiri, Sergio Salinas Monroy, James Steck - Wichita State University]


[Yatish Reddy Dubasi - University of Arkansas]



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:


Abstract Submission

CANSec'23 requires a short abstract (no more than 250 words) for both oral and poster presentations. 

Submission link combined with registration is available here


CANSec'23 Registration

To register for the CANSec workshop, click here. The registration fee is $30. We will collect the registration fee at the door. If you do not register online by October 9th, you may also register at the door on October 14th for a $50 fee. 


Student Travel Grants

The Central Area Networking and Security (CANSec) Workshop encourages students to participate in the workshop and the cyber-defense competition by providing a travel grant. This NSF-sponsored travel award aims to partially subsidize the travel costs. Note that the travel award is pending budget approval and will be reimbursement based. The following expenses may be covered by the travel grant: (1) workshop registration, (2) hotel rooms, students are encouraged to share rooms, (3) transportation, students are encouraged to share ride. 


The selection process will give preference to (1) students of underrepresented minority groups; (2) presenters of accepted abstracts; and (3) attendees of the cyber defense competition.


To apply for student travel grant, students should provide: 


Applications for a student travel grant should be emailed as a PDF to bluo@ku.edu by October 9th. Notifications will be made on October 11th.



Venue

The 16th CANSec workshop will be held at Burge Union at the University of Kansas.


Parking 

Attendees will be able to park in any University of Kansas outdoor parking lot at no charge (outdoor lots are free to use on the weekends). However, all of the parking garages require payment of the hourly toll 24/7. The closest outdoor parking lots are Lots 72 and 54. The full KU parking map is available here.


Hotel Recommendations

The Oread Hotel (less than 1 mile from the workshop venue)

SpringHill Suites by Marriott (Downtown Lawrence)

DoubleTree by Hilton (Close to Highways 59 and I-70, and 5 minutes away from the University of Kansas campus)

*Note: There is no discounted rate for the hotels available at this point. We will update the website with a discount code if such a discount is offered.


Organizing Committee

For any questions, please contact the chairs: 

{alexbardas, drew.davidson}@ku.edu

Steering Committee

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.