NSA Announces Winner of the 3rd Annual Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper Competition

The Research Directorate of the National Security Agency announced the winner of this year's Science of Security (SoS) Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper Competition. Of the 50 papers nominated, one winner and two honorable mentions were chosen.

Congratulations to all the winners!

3rd ANNUAL NSA COMPETITION FOR THE BEST SCIENTIFIC CYBERSECURITY PAPER

WINNING PAPER

"Additive and Multiplicative Notions of Leakage and Their Capacities”

written by Prof. Mario S. Alvim, Dr. Kostas Chatzikokolakis, Prof. Annabelle McIver, Prof. Carroll Morgan, Dr. Catuscia Palamidessi and Prof. Geoffrey Smith

HONORABLE MENTIONS

"Increasing Security Sensitivity with Social Proof: A Large-Scale Experimental Confirmation”

written by Sauvik Das, Dr. Adam D.I. Kramer, Prof. Laura Dabbish and Prof. Jason Hong

AND

"Quantitative Evaluation of Dynamic Platform Techniques as a Defensive Mechanism"

written by Dr. Hamed Okhravi, Dr. James Roirdan, and Dr. Kevin Cater

For additional information http://cps-vo.org/group/sos/papercompetition