Security Analytics and Threat Intelligence

• Threat pattern models and modeling 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

• 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, recruitment, conducting  operations)

• Authorship analysis and identification

• Terrorism related analytical methodologies and software tools

Human Behavior and Factors in Security Applications

• Behavior 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 behavior in that has potential security risks

• Security risks about user behavior in information systems

• Human behavior modeling, 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