InfoSec.pptx: A Longitudinal Study of Speakers, Topics, and Sponsors at Security Conferences in Academia and Industry

arXiv:2404.17989v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Security conferences are important venues at which academics and practitioners share knowledge about new attacks and state-of-the-art defenses. Despite this, researchers have not studied who shares information and about which security topics. To address this, our study characterizes the speakers, sponsors, and topics presented at the most prestigious academic and industry conferences. We collect a longitudinal data set that contains 9,728 abstracts and 1,686 sponsors across 4 academic and 6 industry conferences. There is limited …

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