Workshop on Active Defense and Deception (AD&D)

The AD&D workshop intends to promote Active Defense (AD) as an additional layer of protection against the imbalance of active attackers and passive defenders. It focuses on proactively interacting with adversaries using deception, system modification and run-time defensive mechanisms to detect sophisticated multi-stage attacks. The workshop brings together disciplines including Information Security, Cognitive Science and Psychology to develop solutions for evaluating AD, influencing attacker decision making, and designing deceptions with long-term viability, aiming to move AD from theoretical concepts into practical applications. Note: the workshop explicitly excludes concepts of preemptive attacks, hacking back, and counter-attacks.