Proceedings of the 2014 ACM Workshop on Information Sharing & Collaborative Security

It is my great pleasure to welcome you to the 2014 ACM Workshop on Information Sharing and Collaborative Security -- WISCS 2014. The mission of this new workshop is to advance the scientific foundations for sharing threat and security-related data among organizations. There is increasing evidence that collaboratively organizations can defend themselves against cyber-attacks more effectively. Thus improving sharing capabilities has become an important topic in the security community that is inspiring exciting research by the academic community, commercial offerings by security vendors and novel studies by the public policy community on how to address the privacy, civil liberties and liability concerns that arise. This year's workshop aims to be a premier forum for the presentation of research results and practical case studies in collaborative security, privacy and confidentiality, as well as legal and policy issues. The call for papers attracted submissions from Asia, Europe, and the United States. The program committee reviewed 18 submissions of which 9 were accepted as full papers. They cover a variety of topics including the design of information sharing infrastructures, cryptographic support for privacy-preserving sharing as well as the sharing of network and application data. The program also includes an opening keynote Why Collaborate? by Dr. Paul Vixie, CEO of Farsight Security that will surely stimulate interesting discussions. Dr. Vixie has been a pioneer of sharing DNS information for security purposes and was recently introduced into the Internet Hall of Fame as an innovator for his fundamental contributions to the DNS system.