<div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-a3f188cf-7fff-b26b-cf5e-f622dd290a92"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">*** Website </span><a href="https://vizsec.org/vizsec2021/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://vizsec.org/vizsec2021/</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">  ***</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Poster Submission Deadline Extended. New Deadline: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">August 04, 2021                      </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Event Date: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">October 27, 2021</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We are cordially inviting you to participate in the poster session of the 18th IEEE Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security (VizSec) 2021.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(51,51,51);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">VizSec brings together researchers and practitioners from academia, government, and industry to address the needs of the cybersecurity community through new and insightful visualization and analysis techniques. VizSec provides an excellent venue for fostering greater exchange and new collaborations on a broad range of security- and privacy-related topics.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(51,51,51);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">VizSec will take place on </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">October 27, 2021</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(51,51,51);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, in conjunction with the </span><a href="http://ieeevis.org/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(220,53,33);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">2021 IEEE VIS conference</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(51,51,51);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, giving VizSec authors and attendees enhanced access to IEEE VIS. VizSec program will be presented in an online format with virtual presentations.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(51,51,51);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The purpose of VizSec is to explore effective and scalable visual interfaces for security domains such as network security, computer forensics, reverse engineering, insider threat detection, cryptography, privacy, user-assisted attacks prevention, compliance management, wireless security, secure coding, penetration testing, and other related research topics.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We are soliciting Poster Submissions. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(51,51,51);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Poster submissions may showcase late-breaking results, work in progress, preliminary results, or visual representations relevant to the VizSec community. In line with the full conference, the presentation of posters will take place online. There will be 1-2 dedicated poster sessions in which poster authors can virtually meet and discuss their work with conference participants. An additional web presence of posters will replace the traditional physical installation of poster boards. More concrete details will follow soon.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.32;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Awards</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(51,51,51);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">There will be an award for Best Poster. This award will recognize authors’ efforts to clearly present their work to the audience. The award will be determined by anonymous judges and given to recipients at the end of the conference.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.32;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Submissions</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.32;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(51,51,51);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Submissions must be formatted using the IEEE VGTC conference proceedings template that can be found at: </span><a href="https://tc.computer.org/vgtc/publications/conference/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(220,53,33);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://tc.computer.org/vgtc/publications/conference/</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(51,51,51);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Posters should be 2 page abstracts. Presenters are also encouraged to submit an accompanying video or other supplementary materials by following the IEEE VIS formatting guidelines. Reviews are single-blind, so authors may include names and affiliations in their submissions. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(51,51,51);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">VizSec uses the </span><a href="https://new.precisionconference.com/vgtc" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(220,53,33);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Precision Conference System (PCS)</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(51,51,51);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> to handle the poster submissions and reviewing processes.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.32;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:7pt 0pt 15pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Important Dates</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(51,51,51);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">All deadlines are 5:00 PM PST.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Aug 04, 2021</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(51,51,51);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Submission deadline for posters</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Aug 16, 2021</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(51,51,51);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Author notifications for poster submissions</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(51,51,51);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For more information please see: </span><a href="https://vizsec.org/vizsec2021/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://vizsec.org/vizsec2021/</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 8pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Sincerely,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">VizSec 2021 Publicity Co-Chairs</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Sanchari Das, Noëlle Rakotondravony </span></p></span><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div>