Security Analytics and Threat Intelligence

• Threat pattern models and modelling tools
• Real-time situational awareness
• Intrusion and cybersecurity threat detection and analysis
• Cyber-physical-social system security and incident management
• Computing and networking infrastructure protection
• Crime analysis and prevention
• Forecasting threats and measuring the impact of threats
• Surveillance and intelligence through unconventional means
• Information security management standards
• Information systems security policies
• Mobile and cloud computing security
• Big data analytics for cybersecurity
• Machine learning for cybersecurity
• Artificial Intelligence for cybersecurity
• Resilient cyber infrastructure design and protection

Data Science and Analytics in Security Informatics

• Data representation and fusion for security informatics
• Criminal/intelligence information extraction
• Data sharing and information visualization for security informatics
• Web-based intelligence monitoring and analysis
• Spatial-temporal data analysis for crime analysis and security informatics
• Criminal/intelligence machine learning and data mining
• Bio-terrorism tracking, alerting, and analysis
• Digital forensics and computational criminology
• Financial and accounting fraud analysis
• Consumer-generated content and security-related social media analytics
• Security-related social network analysis (radicalization, fund-raising, recruitment, conducting operations)
• Authorship analysis and identification
• Terrorism related analytical methodologies and software tools

Human Behaviour and Factors in Security Applications

• Behaviour issues in information systems security
• HCI and user interfaces of relevance to intelligence and security
• Social impacts of crime and terrorism
• Board activism and influence
• Measuring the effectiveness of counter-terrorism campaigns
• Citizen education and training
• Understanding user behaviour in that has potential security risks
• Security risks about user behaviour in information systems
• Human behaviour modelling, representation and prediction for security applications

Organizational, National, and International Issues in Counter-terrorism and other Security Applications

• Best practices in counter-terrorism or security protection
• Information sharing policy and governance
• Privacy, security, and civil liberties issues
• Emergency response and management
• Disaster prevention, detection, and management
• Protection of transportation and communications infrastructure
• Communication and decision support for research and rescue
• Assisting citizens' responses to terrorism and catastrophic events
• Border security
• Accounting and IT auditing
• Corporate governance and monitoring
• Election fraud and political use and abuse