Important Dates
- Papers due:
May 1, 2015
May 10, 2015 23:59
UTC+1:00, CET time
- Notification:
June 1, 2015
June 3 - Pre-proceeding:
June 15, 2015
June 28 - Final version:
(after the workshop)
- Workshop:
July 13, 2015
Other Editions
STAST 2018:
stast2018.uni.lu
STAST 2017:
stast2017.uni.lu
STAST 2016:
stast2016.uni.lu
STAST 2014:
stast2014.uni.lu
STAST 2013:
stast2013.uni.lu
STAST 2012:
stast2012.uni.lu
STAST 2011:
stast2011.uni.lu
Supported by
Proceedings
Proc. of 5th Int. Worshop on Socio-Technical Aspects in Security and Trust (STAST)
G. Bella and G. Lenzini (eds.), IEEE, 2015
are available at
IEEEXplore digital library
IEEE Catalog Number CFP1570P-CDR (ISBN 978-1-5090-0178-1)
Motivation
Today, security threats are hardly sheer technical. They are rather socio-technical threats and come from adversaries who combine social engineering practices with technical skills to circumvent the defenses of information systems. Socio-technical attacks often succeed by exploiting the users' ill-understanding of security mechanisms or loopholes in poorly designed user interfaces and unclear security policies. In securing systems against these threats, humans obviously cannot be treated as machines. Humans have peculiar decision making. But their actions and behavioural patterns, despite apparently irrational, are perfectly justifiable from a cognitive and a social perspective. Computer security hence appears to acquire more and more the facets of an interdisciplinary science with roots in both interpretive and positivist research traditions.
Goals
The workshop intends to foster an interdisciplinary discussion on how to model and analyse the socio-technical aspects of modern security systems and on how to protect such systems from socio-technical threats and attacks. It aims to stimulate an active exchange of ideas and experiences from different communities of researchers in order to identify weaknesses potentially emerging from poor usability designs and policies, from social engineering, and from deficiencies hidden in flawed interfaces and implementations. It will bring together experts in computer security and in cognitive, social, and behavioral sciences; it will collect the state of the art, identify open and emerging problems, and propose future research directions.