2012 Workshop on Building Analysis Datasets and Gathering Experience Returns for Security (BADGERS’12)
The BADGERS workshop (affiliated with the ACM CCS conference) is the venue for research on “Big Data” for security.
In contrast to the systems community, security researchers have only recently started collecting and looking at Internet-scale, real-world data (e.g., the EU WOMBAT and the US PREDICT initiatives). Experimental security analysis performed on such data is often hampered by concerns such as confidentiality, privacy, and liability. However attackers have become experts in leveraging the whole Internet to achieve their goals. To understand the modus operandi and the motivations of attackers, both the access to Internet-scale, real-world data and the techniques to mine it for relevant security knowledge are necessary. Hence there is a growing need to widen the scope of data-driven security analysis.
