The AIS Special Interest Group on Information Security and Privacy (SIGSEC) is pleased to announce its eighteenth annual Workshop on Information Security and Privacy (WISP) to be held pre-ICIS on Sunday, December 10, 2023, in-person at Hyderabad, India. This workshop is a premier research forum for the leading researchers, practitioners, and doctoral students interested in information security, privacy, ethics, and trust to exchange ideas and collaborate with the members of the SIGSEC community and others. We invite individuals to submit research articles, case studies, position papers, research-in-progress, methodology papers, and panel discussion proposals that address all interesting aspects of information security, assurance, and privacy, including but not limited to:

• Socio-technical analysis of security and privacy 
• Cultural issues in information security and privacy
• Behavioral issues in information security (e.g., insider threat)
• IT risk analysis, threat assessment and incident response
• Penetration analysis of vulnerabilities and risk exposure
• Security and privacy in e-government, organizations, and social networks
• Impact of cybersecurity on citizens and national security
• Digital forensics
• Security analysis, machine learning, artificial intelligence
• Deepfakes, dis-/misinformation, online deception, and multimodal data quality analysis
• Bright and dark side of AI; security, privacy technology and tools
• Legal, societal, and ethical issues in high tech. crime
• Cybersecurity education, pedagogy, and skill development
• Cybercrime, cyber threat intelligence, detection and mitigation
• Future advances in information security and privacy

All submitted papers undergo a double-blind peer-review process. Please submit your papers using our conference submission system at https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=wisp2023. All submissions should be in Microsoft Word using the workshop template only, with no author names or other identification in the manuscript file, including document properties and tracked changes (blind the submission, please). Please use the WISP2023 style for your paper and references. All authors should be prepared to review 1-2 other papers. Completed research and case study papers should be limited to 15 pages (including appendices but excluding references). Research-in-progress papers should be limited to eight pages (including appendices but excluding references). Panel proposals should be limited to three pages. Final camera-ready manuscripts of accepted submissions should include author names, email, and affiliation. Questions about submissions should be emailed to smho@fsu.edu with WISP2023 in the subject line. WISP is a supportive and collegial workshop and encourages doctoral research. Notable papers authored (or co-authored) by Ph.D. students may be nominated for awards. High-quality review feedback is one of the hallmarks of this workshop, and top reviews are also recognized.

DATES

• Submission Deadline: September 30, 2023
• Notification of Acceptance: October 22, 2023
• Revised, Camera ready Document: November 30, 2023
• Workshop Date: December 10, 2023

WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS

• Shuyuan Mary Ho Metcalfe, Florida State University
• Philip Menard, The University of Texas at San Antonio
• Andy Green, Kennesaw State University
• Obi Ogbanufe, University of North Texas

For more information, please go to https://cybersecurity.fsu.edu/wisp/.