Cyber Security has emerged as a topic of great importance to both the public and private sector. It represents an area of significant risk to almost any entity, and must be carefully managed as part of overall organizational risk management. Assessing the cyber security readiness posture of an organization is a critical first step to improving cyber security and driving down risk. Related to improving cyber security, efficient hiring, training, and re-training of a sufficient quantity and quality of cyber security staff is a tremendous challenge for decision makers. Frequently scarce resources are invested in trying to attain these objectives with poor results, resulting in elevated cyber risk rather than an improvement. Thus, it is essential for an organization to avail itself of the best approaches for and to continually assess the cyber security readiness posture of the organization. This includes instituting the best cyber security policies, utilizing the most effective technologies to improve cyber security, and availing of the best training approaches and technologies, including virtual cyber ranges. Data analytics is relevant to cyber security assessment and dynamic training scoring.

## Topic of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
Cyber Security Assessment of Organizations and Technologies
Cyber Risk Management and Organizational Resilience
Cyber Security Training Technologies
Cyber Security Evaluation Technologies
Virtual Cyber Ranges
Automation and Data Analytics for Cyber Technology

## Important Dates:
- Submit Abstract of proposed paper by June 23, 2016
- Registration Deadline: August 15
- Submit Paper by August 18, 2016
- Deadline for Camera Ready version by September 10, 2016

## Contribution Types:
- Regular papers [in the proceedings, digital library]
- Short papers (work in progress) [in the proceedings, digital library]
- Posters: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
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## Publications
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## Paper Submission
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## Registration
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## Contact
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