Sponsor: Metricon 6.6

Location: SanFrancisco, CA

Time: 27 February 2012

Metricon 6.5 is on 27 February 2012 in conjunction with the RSA Conference at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA.  The program chair is Bryan Ware.  The theme of the one-day workshop is "The Human in the Loop".

More information can be found here.

Sponsor: Metricon 6

Location: SanFrancisco, CA

Time: 9 August 2011

Metricon 5.5 was held on 14 February 2011 in conjunction with the RSA Conference at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA.  The program chair was Jennifer Bayuk.  The theme of the one-day workshop was "Real People Generating Real Information".

More information can be found here.

Sponsor:  Metricon 5.5

Location:  SanFrancisco, CA

Time:  14 February 2011

Metricon 5.5 was held on 14 February 2011 in conjunction with the RSA Conference at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA.  Betsy Nichols served on the Program Committee.

More information can be found here.

Sponsor:  MetriSec 2010

Location:  Bolzano-Bozen, Italy

Time:  15 September 2010

Quantitative assessment is a major stumbling block for software and system security. Although some security metrics exist, they are rarely adequate. The engineering importance of metrics is intuitive: you cannot consistently improve what you cannot measure. Economics is an additional driver for security metrics: vendors will only invest in security if customers will pay for it, and customers will only pay a premium for security that is measurably improved.

The goals of the MetriSec workshops are to showcase and foster research into security measurements and metrics and to keep building the community of individuals interested in this area. MetriSec continues the tradition started by the Quality of Protection (QoP) workshop series. As in the previous year, the co-location with ESEM is an opportunity for the security metrics folks to meet the metrics community at large.

Betsy Nichols is serving on the Program Committee for MetriSec 2010.

More information can be found here.

Sponsor:  Metricon 5

Location:  Washington, DC

Time:  10 August 2010

This date is an educated guess.  Andrew Jaquith is serving as the Program Chair.  A call for papers should be issued soon.

More information can be found here.

Sponsor:  WEIS

Location:  Cambridge, MA (Harvard Univ)

Time:  7-8 June 2010

The 9th Annual Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS) is the leading forum for interdisciplinary scholarship on informatoin security, combining expertise from the fields of economics, social science, business, law, policy, and computer science.  Prior workshops have explored the role of incentives between attackers and defenders, identified market failures dogging Internet security, and assessed investments in cyber-definse.  This workshop will build on past efforts using empirical and analytic tools to not only understand threats, but also strengthen security through novel evaluations of available solutions.

More information can be found here.