Proceedings of the 2014 International Workshop on Privacy & Security in Programming, Portland, OR, USA, October 21, 2014

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to Portland and to the Privacy and Security in Programming (PSP) workshop -- the first of its kind. Security and privacy in software engineering is a pressing concern. Over the last decade, many programmers have recognized the importance of including security and privacy requirements at project start. This has led to efforts in secure/security engineering and privacy engineering, which focus on guidelines and best practices that can be used at the design stage to create safer code. Unfortunately, these disciplines are not pervasive and still in their infancy. By gathering the different communities doing work in the related spaces, we hope to spark conversation, collaboration and come up with ways to make security and privacy first class citizens in programming and programming languages. Specifically, we seek to help research and industry professionals further the agenda on how to: codify the principles from secure and privacy engineering into programming language constructs and or tools, create programming languages that have security and privacy as foundational tenets, and create/codify constructs or tools that enables secure and privacy-preserving (business) operations. As expected for a workshop in its inaugural year that is promoted as a highly interactive forum and a meeting of the minds, the number of submissions was not significant. However, the program committee accepted three very high quality papers for presentation. The team of Nathan Fulton, Cyrus Omar and Jonathan Aldrich won the best paper award for "Statically Typed String Sanitation Inside a Python" and Lucas Waye received second place for "Privacy Integrated Data Stream". The program also includes an interesting talk from Stephen Chong from Harvard University on "Language-based Security". Beyond the formal program, there was a lot of spirited discussion and engagement during the sessions and breaks. We are happy that you are able to join us for this exciting workshop, and hope that the ideas you take home with you will enrich your work moving forward.