Proceedings of the 2013 New Security Paradigms Workshop

The New Security Paradigms Workshop (NSPW) is a rebellious sort of conference. It is where conventional security wisdom is challenged and where bold, innovative concepts are welcomed. The workshop shelters and nurtures these ideas in a collaborative, constructive environment. Authors present their works to the other attendees in highly interactive discussions, where the stated expectation is that all participants will seek to identify and contribute to the promising parts of the research rather than being dismissive or destructive. For over two decades, this approach has produced original and inspiring work---including these new contributions from NSPW 2013. This year's NSPW was held in the stunning locale of Banff, Alberta. As befits a venue that explores new ideas, Banff became Canada's first national park during the development of Canada's transcontinental railway, an endeavor that required determined forays into unchartered territory. As visitors, we reaped the benefits of this undertaking, enjoying the delights of The Banff Centre. The windows in our conference rooms furnished breathtaking mountain views that provided a stimulating backdrop for our workshop discussions. We were fortunate to receive a terrific crop of submissions this year: 32 papers, of which 11 were accepted for publication. As is usual for NSPW, the papers ranged over a wide variety of topics, drawing on lessons from public health, social marketing, and organizational information flow. Our authors introduced provocative ideas from storytelling and forgiveness. We hope you will enjoy reading further about enemy lines, booby traps, and decoy sessions. As a conference that values innovation, we tried a new element this year: a graduate student track called "New Security Paradigms: Higher and Deeper" (NSPHD). This was devised to encourage student involvement, providing guidance for inventive research ideas. We selected two deserving (and brave) students for our inaugural session, which we---and they---feel was a highly successful experiment. Although these NSPHD papers were not formally peer-reviewed (as the main papers were), we included them here to ensure that the students' work was made available to the research community. Another item of note was the ever-popular NSPW panel. This year's contribution continued the tradition of topical and controversial topics: the zero-day exploit market. Although the proceedings cannot capture the lively discourse that ensued during the session, we trust that you will enjoy the document included here, which summarizes the key elements of the debate.