Proceedings of the 2017 Workshop on Moving Target Defense

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the Fourth ACM Workshop on Moving Target Defense -- MTD'17. The mission of MTD is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners in this area to exchange their novel ideas, findings, experiences, and lessons learned. The fourth MTD workshop will also have a focus on the lessons learned from the past years of research in the area of moving target, and the challenges and opportunities faced by the community moving forward. The call for papers attracted submissions from the United States, Europe, and Asia. Each submission received at least three, and in some cases as many as five reviews. Each submission was then discussed and carefully debated by the members of the program committee. In some cases, the lengths and detailed of the comments and discussions even surpassed the reviews. After careful considerations, the program committee accepted 9 full technical papers out of 26 submissions (an acceptance rate of 34%). The program committee further recommended 2 of the submissions to be accepted as short papers. We also encourage attendees to attend the keynotes. These insightful talks discuss the history and prospects of security as a scientific pursuit and the lessons learned on the effectiveness of randomization over the past years. Their aim is to spark debate and discussion within the MTD community, and chart a vision for future research in this area. The keynotes are: Science, Security and Academic Literature: Can We Learn from History? Prof. Paul C. Van Oorschot (Canada Research Chair in Authentication and Computer Security and Professor of Computer Science, Carleton University, Canada) Moving Targets vs. Moving Adversaries: On the Effectiveness of System Randomization, Prof. Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi (Professor of Computer Science at the Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany)