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Past Conferences and Other Announcements - 2023

IEEE Blockchain 2023 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain, Ocean Flower Island, Hainan, China, December 17-21, 2023. [posted here 7/31/23]
As a promising technique to achieve decentralized consensus, blockchain has been applied into various fields, e.g., digital currency, supply chain, asset management, e-health, e-government, network management, etc. Its secure design for supporting a distributed computing system with high fault tolerance is attracting wide attention all over the world. Blockchain has great potential to create new foundations for our socio-economic systems by efficiently establishing trust among people and machines, reducing cost, and increasing utilization of resources. On one hand, blockchain will play an important role for secure decentralization in such emerging fields as Internet of Things, cyber physical systems, edge computing, social networking, crowdsourcing and next generation wireless communications, and even more other fields. On the other hand, its advance should be further evolved in terms of scalability, security, privacy, efficiency, flexibility, availability, and dependability.

Following the great success of IEEE Blockchain 2022, held in Espoo, Finland, IEEE Blockchain 2021, held in Melbourne, Australia, IEEE Blockchain 2020, held in Rhodes Island, Greece, IEEE Blockchain 2019, held in Atlanta, USA, IEEE Blockchain 2018, held in Halifax, Canada, the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2023) will provide a high-profile, leading-edge forum for researchers, engineers, and practitioners to present latest advances and innovations in key theories, infrastructure, schemes, and significant applications for the blockchain, as well as to identify emerging research topics and define the future. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Theories of blockchain and distributed ledger technology
- New blockchain architecture
- Distributed consensus and fault tolerance mechanisms
- Security, privacy and trust of blockchain and distributed ledger
- Cross-chain and off-chain technology
- Attacks and vulnerabilities of blockchain
- Blockchain scalability and performance optimization
- Simulation and performance evaluation techniques
- Smart contract and chain code
- Applications and services based on blockchain
- Protocols and algorithms based on blockchain
- Blockchain in the Internet of things (IoT)
- Blockchain in cyber physical systems
- Blockchain in social networking
- Blockchain in supply chain management
- Blockchain in agriculture
- Blockchain in connected and autonomous vehicles
- Blockchain in crowdsourcing and crowdsensing
- Blockchain in edge and cloud computing
- Blockchain in next generation communications and networks
- Blockchain and cryptocurrency
- Blockchain and artificial intelligence
- Blockchain and game theory
- Blockchain and industry 4.0
- Redactable blockchain

For more information, please see https://ieee-cybermatics.org/2023/blockchain/.

ICISS 2023 19th International Conference on Information Systems Security, NIT Raipur, India, December 16-20, 2023. [posted here 6/5/23]
This annual conference provides a forum for researchers and industry practitioners of security to present their cutting-edge research and use case experiences. We solicit previously unpublished technical papers in the field of Security & Privacy. Papers that involve innovative solutions, usability studies, longitudinal studies, industrial use cases, and SoK are welcome. This year, we will also accept PoCs of security applications under a separate demo track and allow submission of artefacts; a separate call will be announced on the conference website in due course of time.

For more information, please see https://iciss.isrdc.in.

FPS 2023 16th Foundations & Practice of Security Symposium, Bordeaux, France, December 11-13, 2023. [posted here 6/26/23]
Protecting the communication and data infrastructure of an increasingly interconnected world has become vital to the normal functioning of all aspects of our daily life. Many industries and businesses, including healthcare, transportation, and manufacturing, rely on edge computing to process data and deliver real-time services, while enterprise networking is increasingly moving to the cloud to improve scalability and reduce costs. As a result, security and cyber resiliency have emerged as vital scientific disciplines that aim to protect these critical systems against cyber threats and ensure the integrity, availability, and confidentiality of data, applications, and services. The multifaceted complexities of these requirements necessitate collaboration and innovation from communities in mathematics, computer science, and engineering. The aim of FPS is to discuss and exchange theoretical and practical ideas that address privacy, security, and resiliency issues in interconnected systems. It aims to provide scientific presentations as well as to establish links, and promote scientific collaborations, joint research programs, and student exchanges between institutions involved in this important and fast-moving research field. We welcome submissions spanning the full range of theoretical and applied work including user research, methods, tools, simulations, demos, and practical evaluations. We also invite papers from researchers and practitioners working in privacy, security, resiliency, trustworthy data systems, and related areas to submit their original papers. Special care will be given this year to enhancing Cybersecurity and Resiliency with Artificial Intelligence. Moreover, we are interested in data sharing, data disclosure, individual tracking, and fake news regarding their impacts on security and privacy.

For more information, please see https://www.fps-2023.com/.

ACSAC 2023 Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, Austin, Texas, USA, December 4-8, 2023. [posted here 4/24/23]
ACSAC is an internationally recognized forum where practitioners, researchers, and developers in information system security meet to learn and to exchange practical ideas and experiences. If you are developing practical solutions to problems related to protecting users, commercial enterprises, or countries' information infrastructures, consider submitting your work to the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference. We solicit submissions that address the application of security technology, the implementation of systems, and the discussion of lessons learned. While we are interested in various topics, we especially encourage submissions in the area of our Hard Topic Theme. This year's hard topic theme solicits research results and technologies that are considering the concept of trustworthy systems. Trustworthy systems generally involve the development of capabilities that offer security, safety, and reliability guarantees. ACSAC has always solicited work on applied security; with this hard topic, we hope to put great emphasis on deployable trustworthy systems.

For more information, please see https://www.acsac.org/2023/submissions/papers/.

CCS 2023 30th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Copenhagen, Denmark, November 26-30, 2023. [posted here 1/16/22]
The 30th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) seeks submissions presenting novel contributions related to all real-world aspects of computer security and privacy. Theoretical papers must make a convincing case for the relevance of their results to practice. Authors are encouraged to write the abstract and introduction of their paper in a way that makes the results accessible and compelling to a general computer-security researcher. In particular, authors should bear in mind that anyone on the program committee may be asked to review any paper.

For more information, please see https://www.sigsac.org/ccs/CCS2023/index.html.

C&ESAR 2023 Cybersecurity of Smart Peripheral Devices (Mobiles / IoT / Edge), Rennes, France, November 21-22, 2023. [posted here 2/13/23]
Every year since 1997, the French Ministry of Defense organizes a cybersecurity conference, called C&ESAR. This conference is now one of the main events of the European Cyber Week (ECW) organized every fall in Rennes, Brittany, France. The goal of C&ESAR is to bring together governmental, industrial, and academic stakeholders interested in cybersecurity. This event, both educational and scientific, gathers experts, researchers, practitioners and decision-makers. This inter-disciplinary approach allows operational practitioners to learn about and anticipate future technological inflection points, and for industry and academia to confront research and product development to operational realities. Every year, C&ESAR explores a different topic within the field of cybersecurity.

This year’s topic is: Cybersecurity of Smart Peripheral Devices (Mobiles / IoT / Edge). This year’s topic is subtitled: Cybersecurity of semi-autonomous connected devices deployed at the periphery of an information system, close to its data sources and sinks. C&ESAR solicits submissions presenting clear surveys (including SoK papers), innovative solutions, or insightful experience reports related to the cybersecurity of Smart Peripheral Devices (mobiles/IoT/Edge). The scope covers all issues related to the cybersecurity of semi-autonomous connected devices deployed at the periphery of an information system close to its data sources and sinks. Those devices include mobiles, smartphones, IoT devices, and lightweight Edge devices. The scope covers technical issues, as well as legal issues.

For more information, please see https://2023.cesar-conference.org.

eCrime 2023 18th APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research 2023, Barcelona, Spain, November 15-17, 2023. [posted here 8/7/23]
APWG celebrates its 20th anniversary by looking ahead to the coming decades that await the larger community of researchers, interveners, investigators, policy makers and stakeholders from private and public sectors as they face the increasing challenges posed by AI technologies and the accelerating complexity of the cybercrimes themselves.

The APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (APWG eCrime) is issuing its Call for Papers to announce its 18th annual edition of its peer-reviewed publishing conference – and to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the APWG’s founding. APWG eCrime 2023 will be a three-day event hosted in Barcelona by Agència de Ciberseguretat de Catalunya on November 15th to 17th, 2023.

APWG eCrime 2023 combines a peer-reviewed conference with general sessions open to industry, government, law enforcement and multilateral organizations, featuring keynote presentations from global thought-leaders, technical and practical sessions, and interactive panels. The objective of eCrime is to foster practical collaboration and the exchange of catalytic ideas by academic researchers, industry security practitioners, and law enforcement professionals in the global struggle against cybercrime.

APWG eCrime 2023 will look ahead at the future of cybercrime in this uniquely perilous hour, when powerful, accessible AI technologies are cheap and ubiquitous and the compound complexities of technologies, (private and public) policies and network topologies make cybercrime fighting more difficult than ever – with no promise of relief on the horizon.

For more information, please see https://apwg.org/event/ecrime2023/.

TrustCom 2023 22nd IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, Exeter, UK, November 1-3, 2023. [posted here 5/15/23]
With the rapid development and increasing complexity of computer systems and communication networks, user requirements for trust, security and privacy are becoming more and more demanding. Therefore, there is a grand challenge that traditional security technologies and measures may not meet user requirements in open, dynamic, heterogeneous, mobile, wireless, and distributed computing environments. As a result, we need to build systems and networks in which various applications allow users to enjoy more comprehensive services while preserving trust, security and privacy at the same time. As useful and innovative technologies, trusted computing and communications are attracting researchers with more and more attention. The TrustCom-2023 is a forum for presenting leading works on trusted computing and communications, with regard to trust, security, privacy, reliability, dependability, survivability, availability, and fault tolerance aspects of computer systems and networks.

For more information, please see https://hpcn.exeter.ac.uk/trustcom2023/.

UbiSec 2023 3rd International Conference on Ubiquitous Security, Exeter, UK, November 1-3, 2023. [posted here 4/24/23]
Ubiquitous computing describes the emerging practice of integrating computing power, usually microprocessors, into everyday objects to improve communication and enable useful tasks while minimising the need for end-users to interact with computers. In contrast to desktop computing, ubiquitous computing can be performed on any device, at any time, in any location, and on any network using any data format. UbiSec-2023 will provide a forum for world-class researchers to gather and share their research achievements, emerging ideas and trends in the highly challenging research fields.

For more information, please see https://hpcn.exeter.ac.uk/ubisec2023/.

TPS 2023 IEEE International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Intelligent systems, and Applications, Atlanta, GA, USA, November 1-3, 2023. [posted here 5/1/23]
ecent advances in computing and information technologies such as IoT, mobile Edge/Cloud computing, cyber- physical-social systems, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning/ Deep Learning, etc., have paved way for creating next generation smart and intelligent systems and applications that can have transformative impact in our society while accelerating rapid scientific discoveries and innovations. Such newer technologies and paradigms are getting increasingly embedded in the computing platforms and networked information systems/infrastructures that form the digital foundation for our personal, organizational and social processes and activities. It is increasingly becoming critical that the trust, privacy and security issues in such digital environments are holistically addressed to ensure the safety and well-being of individuals as well as our society.

For more information, please see http://www.sis.pitt.edu/lersais/conference/tps/2023/calls.html.

CANS 2023 22nd International Conference on Cryptology and Network Security, Augusta, Georgia, USA, October 31 - November 2, 2023. [posted here 6/27/23]
The 22nd International Conference on Cryptology and Network Security (CANS) spans current advances in all aspects of cryptology, data protection, and network and computer security. Topics of interests include, but are not limited to: Access Control, Anonymity & Pseudonymity, Applied Cryptography, Blockchain Security and Privacy, Cryptographic Algorithms and Primitives, Cryptographic Protocols, Data Protection, Language-Based Security, Network Security, Security and Privacy for Big Data and the Cloud, Secure Distributed Computing, Trust Management, Wireless and Mobile Security.

For more information, please see https://www.augusta.edu/ccs/conferences/cans2023/index.php.

SecDev 2023 IEEE Secure Development Conference, Atlanta, GA, USA, October 18 - 20, 2023. [posted here 2/13/23]
SecDev is a venue for presenting ideas, research, and experience about how to develop secure systems. It focuses on theory, techniques, and tools to “build security in” to existing and new computing systems, and does not focus on simply discovering the absence of security. The goal of SecDev is to encourage and disseminate ideas for secure system development among academia, industry, and government. It aims to bridge the gap between constructive security research and practice and to enable the real-world impact of security research in the long run. Developers have valuable experiences and ideas that can inform academic research, and researchers have concepts, studies, and even code and tools that could benefit developers. We solicit research and experience papers on a broad range of topics relating to secure systems development. Examples of topics that are in scope include: development libraries, tools, or processes to produce systems resilient to certain attacks; formal foundations that underpin a language, tool, or testing strategy that improves security; techniques that drastically improve the scalability of security solutions for practical deployment; and experience, designs, or applications showing how to apply cryptographic techniques effectively to secure systems. SecDev also seeks hands-on and interactive tutorials on processes, frameworks, languages, and tools for building security in. The goal is to share knowledge on the art and science of secure systems development.

For more information, please see https://secdev.ieee.org/2023/home.

RAID 2023 26th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses, Hong Kong, October 16-18, 2023. [posted here 1/28/23]
Since its inception in 1997, the International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID) has established itself as a venue where leading researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and the government are given the opportunity to present novel research in a unique venue to an engaged and lively community. The conference is known for the quality and thoroughness of the reviews of the papers submitted, the desire to build a bridge between research carried out in different communities, and the emphasis given on the need for sound experimental methods and measurement to improve the state of the art in cybersecurity. This year we are soliciting research papers on topics covering all well-motivated computer security problems. We care about techniques that identify new real-world threats, techniques to prevent them, to detect them, to mitigate them or to assess their prevalence and their consequences. Measurement papers are encouraged, as well as papers offering public access to new tools or datasets, or experience papers that clearly articulate important lessons learned.

For more information, please see https://raid2023.org/call.html.

ICN 2023 10th ACM Conference on Information Centric Networking, Reykjavik, Iceland, October 8-10, 2023. [posted here 3/27/23]
Information-centric networking represents an approach to communications based on data names and identities, in contrast to classical networks based on addresses and channels. In 2023, we invite research papers on all ICN topics and particularly encourage submissions in the following areas:
- Experiences with real-world ICN deployments
- Challenges and opportunities with HTTP/3 and QUIC
- Design, implementation, and evaluation of ICN platforms, systems, and applications
- ICN mechanism design and evaluation, including forwarding, congestion control, and flow control
- ICN-based security applications
- ICN applications in significant emerging application areas, including vehicular networks, VR/AR/metaverse, AI/ML, IoT, and autonomous systems

For more information, please see https://conferences.sigcomm.org/acm-icn/2023.

MarCaS 2023 1st IEEE LCN Workshop on Maritime Communication and Security, Held in conjunction with the 48th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (IEEE LCN 2023), Daytona Beach, Florida, USA, October 2-5, 2023. [posted here 5/15/23]
The ongoing digital transformation of the worldwide maritime transportation system (MTS) is moving from previously isolated legacy systems to fully interconnected, globally available, and remotely controllable maritime systems. This transformation has a huge impact on most global supply chains that depend existentially upon maritime. Ultimately, it has also the potential to pave the way for autonomous, smart, and green shipping, improving the efficiency and sustainability of the MTS.

However, in light of the growing threat of cyberattacks and malicious electromagnetic activities, protecting our maritime transportation and communication systems must be a top priority not only from an economic view, but also from a social and political perspective. The Ever Given’s Suez Canal obstruction in March 2021 has made the world community noticeably aware of how fragile and vulnerable our global supply chains are. But beyond merchant ships and shipping lanes, port facilities and cargo terminals, as well as many other infrastructures such as oil and gas platforms, offshore wind farms, and subsea pipelines and cables, must also be secured. Recent attacks on gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea also highlight the need for more networked surveillance systems, both on the surface and underwater.

The scope of the MarCaS Workshop are innovations from research necessary for the digital transformation, focusing on maritime information technology (IT) and operational tech- nology (OT) on board vessels and maritime industrial control systems, but also on shore at ports, terminals, and other maritime infrastructures. Maritime communication, satellite navigation, radio-based situational awareness systems, and maritime cloud services are of particular interest of MarCaS, combined with novel cybersecurity approaches for a safer and more resilient MTS.

For more information, please see https://garykessler.net/lcn_marcas/.

CNS 2023 11th annual IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security, Orlando, FL, USA, October 2-5, 2023. [posted here 4/17/23]
The IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS) is a premier forum for cybersecurity researchers, engineers, practitioners, and policy makers to exchange ideas, techniques and tools related to all practical and theoretical aspects of communications and network security. The conference seeks submissions from academia, industry, and government presenting novel research results in communications and network security.

For more information, please see https://cns2023.ieee-cns.org/.

CLPSC 2023 3rd Annual Cybersecurity Law and Policy Scholars Conference, Boston, MA, USA, September 29-30, 2023. [posted here 2/27/23]
Recent years have seen an increase in scholarship focused on cybersecurity law and policy. This conference recognizes the need for a dedicated forum for interdisciplinary scholars in the growing field to workshop papers, discuss research ideas, and share pedagogical approaches. We hope that the conference will include participants from a range of academic disciplines, including law, public policy, computer science, political science, economics, and international relations. Issue areas that would be suitable for workshop papers include (but are not limited to):
- Cybersecurity regulation
- Incident response procedures and policies
- Computer crime law
- Data breach and other cybersecurity litigation
- Electronic government surveillance
- Law of armed conflict as applied to cyber
- Information sharing and public-private partnerships
- Cyber espionage
- Cybersecurity standards
- Cybersecurity governance models
- International standardization or comparative analyses of cybersecurity law

For more information, please see https://www.clpsc.org/.

ESORICS 2023 28th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, Hague, Netherlands, September 25-29, 2023. [posted here 1/28/23]
Computer security is concerned with the protection of information in environments where there is a possibility of intrusion or malicious action. The aim of ESORICS is to further the progress of research and development in computer security by establishing a European community for bringing together academia and industry in this area. Progressively organized in a series of European countries, the symposium is confirmed as one of the biggest European conferences in computer security. Nowadays, the symposium has also explored the R&D directions on AI, machine learning, privacy-enhancing technology, network security, software, and hardware security, blockchain, smart contract, and real-world applied cryptography.

For more information, please see https://esorics2023.org.

ICBC 2023 International Conference on Blockchain, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, September 23 - 26, 2023. [posted here 6/19/23]
At present, the application of blockchain has been extended from the financial field to the Internet of Things, intelligent manufacturing, supply chain management, and many other fields. The blockchain is creating a new technological innovation and industrial change on a global scale. We indeed need creative thinking, long-term visions, and innovative methodologies to respond to such a change. The first International Conference on Blockchain (ICBC 2018) was created in 2018 to promote research and application innovations around the world in the field of blockchain. In 2023, we will celebrate our 2023 version of gathering, to strive to advance the largest international professional forum on blockchain services.

For more information, please see http://blockchain1000.org/2023.

ENS 2023 5th International Workshop on Emerging Network Security, Held in conjunction with the 18th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2023), Benevento, Italy, August 29 - September 1, 2023. [posted here 2/27/23]
With the great success and development of 5G & beyond systems and other emerging concepts (e.g. 6G) a continued effort toward rich ubiquitous communication infrastructure, promising wide range of high-quality services is desired. It is envisioned that communication in emerging networks will offer significantly greater data bandwidth and almost infinite capability of networking resulting in unfaltering user experiences for, among others: virtual/augmented reality, massive content streaming, telepresence, user-centric computing, crowded area services, smart personal networks, Internet of Things (IoT), smart buildings and smart cities.

The communication in 5G networks and beyond is currently in the center of attention of industry, academia, and government worldwide. Emerging network concepts drive many new requirements for different network capabilities. As future networks aim at utilizing many promising network technologies, such as Software Defined Networking (SDN), Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), Information Centric Network (ICN), Network Slicing or Cloud Computing and supporting a huge number of connected devices integrating above mentioned advanced technologies and innovating new techniques will surely bring tremendous challenges for security, privacy and trust. Therefore, secure network architectures, mechanisms, and protocols are required as the basis for emerging networks to address these issues and follow security-by-design approach. Finally, since in current and future networks even more user data and network traffic will be transmitted, big data security solutions should be considered in order to address the magnitude of the data volume and ensure data security and privacy.

From this perspective, the ENS 2022 workshop aims at collecting the most relevant ongoing research efforts in emerging network security field. It also serves as a forum for 5G & beyond projects in order to disseminate their security-related results and boost cooperation, also foster development of the 5G and beyond Security Community made of 5G security experts and practitioners who pro-actively discuss and share information to collectively progress and align on the field. Last but not least it also aims to bridge 5G & Beyond community with other communities (e.g. AI) that are key to support full attainment of 5G & Beyond but also 6G promises and so for those technologies to release their full potential.

For more information, please see https://www.ares-conference.eu/workshops-eu-symposium/ens-2023/.

CUING 2023 7th International Workshop on Criminal Use of Information Hiding, Held in conjunction with the 18th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2023), Benevento, Italy, August 29 - September 1, 2023. [posted here 2/27/23]
With the constant rise of the number of Internet users, available bandwidth and an increasing number of services shifting into the connected world, criminals are increasingly active in the virtual world. With improving defensive methods cybercriminals have to utilize more and more sophisticated ways to perform their malicious activities. While protecting the privacy of users, many technologies used in current malware and network attacks have been abused in order to allow criminals to carry out their activities undetected. This poses a lot of new challenges for digital forensics analysts, academics, law enforcement agencies (LEAs), and security professionals. The aim of the International Workshop on Criminal Use of Information Hiding (CUIng) is to bring together researchers, practitioners, law enforcement representatives, and security professionals in the area of analysis of information hiding. However data hiding is understood here in a wider manner than in the academic world i.e. all techniques that pertain to camouflaging/masking/hiding various types of data (e.g. identities, behavior, communication, etc.) are included here. This means not only digital steganography/covert channels but also obfuscation/anti-forensics techniques and even underground networks (darknets) or activities related to behavior impersonation or mimicking. This will allow to present a more complete picture on novel research regarding the use of data and communication hiding methods in criminal environments and discuss ideas for fighting misuse of privacy enhancing technologies.

For more information, please see https://www.ares-conference.eu/workshops/cuing-2023/.

NSS 2023 17th International Conference on Network and System Security, Canterbury, UK, August 14-16, 2023. [posted here 3/6/23]
Founded in 2007, the aim of the NSS (International Conference on Network and System Security) series is to provide a leading edge forum to foster interaction between researchers and developers with the network and system security communities, and to give attendees an opportunity to interact with experts in academia, industry, and governments. This year NSS 2023 will be co-located with SocialSec 2023 (9th International Symposium on Security and Privacy in Social Networks and Big Data).

For more information, please see https://nss2023.cyber.kent.ac.uk/.

USENIX Security 2023 32nd USENIX Security Symposium, Anaheim, CA, USA, August 9-11, 2023. [posted here 6/6/22]
The USENIX Security Symposium brings together researchers, practitioners, system administrators, system programmers, and others interested in the latest advances in the security and privacy of computer systems and networks. Refereed paper submissions are solicited in all areas relating to systems research in security and privacy. This topic list is not meant to be exhaustive; USENIX Security is interested in all aspects of computing systems security and privacy. Papers without a clear application to security or privacy of computing systems, however, will be considered out of scope and may be rejected without full review.

Important: In 2023, we are introducing substantial changes to the review process, aimed to provide a more consistent path towards acceptance and reduce the number of times papers reenter the reviewing process. Detailed information is available at USENIX Security Publication Model Changes. All researchers are encouraged to submit papers covering novel and scientifically significant practical works in computer security.

For more information, please see https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity23/call-for-papers.

CSET 2023 16th Cyber Security Experimentation and Test (CSET) Workshop, Hybrid, Marina del Rey, CA, USA, August 7, 2023. [posted here 4/17/23]
For 15 years, the Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test (CSET) has been an important and lively space for presenting research on and discussing “meta” cybersecurity topics related to reliability, validity, reproducibility, transferability, ethics, and scalability—in practice, in research, and in education. Submissions are particularly encouraged to employ a scientific approach to cybersecurity and/or demonstrably grow community resources.

For more information, please see https://cset23.isi.edu/.

DIMVA 2023 20th Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware & Vulnerability Assessment, Hamburg, Germany, July 12-14, 2023. [posted here 5/8/23]
The annual DIMVA conference serves as a premier forum for advancing the state of the art in the broader areas of intrusion detection, malware analysis, and vulnerability assessment. Each year, DIMVA brings together international experts from academia, industry, and government to present and discuss novel research in these areas. DIMVA is organized by the special interest group Security – Intrusion Detection and Response (SIDAR) of the German Informatics Society (GI). The program of this year features presentations on high-class peer-reviewed papers, keynotes by Giovanni Vigna (University of California in Santa Barbara and Director of Threat Intelligence at VMware), Konrad Riek (TU Berlin), and from an industry speaker, as well as a panel on the currently hot topic security of generative AI and generative AI in Security.

For more information, please see https://dimva2023.de.

PETS 2023 23rd Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium, Lausanne, Switzerland, Hybrid, July 10-15, 2023. [posted here 6/6/22]
The annual Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) brings together experts from around the world to present and discuss recent advances and new perspectives on research in privacy technologies. Papers undergo a journal-style reviewing process, and accepted papers are published in the journal Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETs). Authors of accepted papers are encouraged to attend and present at the physical event, where their presentations can be recorded for the virtual event and where they can participate directly in in-person research, technical, and social activities. However, in-person attendance is not required for publication in the proceedings. We will carefully monitor the COVID-19 situation, and may change the organization of the event as necessary.

For more information, please see https://petsymposium.org/cfp23.php.

CSF 2023 36th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium, Dubrovnik, Croatia, July 10-14, 2023. [posted here 9/26/22]
The Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF) is an annual conference for researchers in computer security, to examine current theories of security, the formal models that provide a context for those theories, and techniques for verifying security. It was created in 1988 as a workshop of the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Security and Privacy, in response to a 1986 essay by Don Good entitled “The Foundations of Computer Security—We Need Some.” The meeting became a “symposium” in 2007, along with a policy for open, increased attendance. Over the past two decades, many seminal papers and techniques have been presented first at CSF. For more details on the history of the symposium, visit CSF's home.

The program includes papers, panels, and a poster session. Topics of interest include access control, information flow, covert channels, cryptographic protocols, database security, language-based security, authorization and trust, verification techniques, integrity and availability models, and broad discussions concerning the role of formal methods in computer security and the nature of foundational research in this area.

For more information, please see https://csf2023.ieee-security.org.

ASIACCS 2023 18th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Melbourne, Australia, July 10-14, 2023. [posted here 5/23/22]
We welcome submissions on all technical aspects of security and privacy, including "Systemization of Knowledge” (SoK) papers. However, purely theoretical (e.g., cryptography-focused, with no security/application connections) submissions are not encouraged. The same goes for submissions focused primarily on blockchains or machine learning. Submissions will fall into one of three categories, each reviewed using different criteria: (1) novel attacks/flaws/exploits, (2) new constructs, and (3) SoK-s. The number of accepted submissions will be carefully balanced across all three categories.

For more information, please see https://asiaccs2023.org/.

SECRYPT 2023 20th International Conference on Security and Cryptography, Rome, Italy, July 10-12, 2023. [posted here 2/13/23]
SECRYPT is an annual international conference covering research in information and communication security. The conference seeks submissions from academia, industry, and government presenting novel research on all theoretical and practical aspects of data protection, privacy, security, and cryptography. Papers describing the application of security technology, the implementation of systems, and lessons learned are also encouraged.

For more information, please see https://secrypt.scitevents.org.

DFRWS 2023 23rd Annual Digital Forensics Research Conference, Baltimore, MD, USA, July 9-12, 2023. [posted here 1/9/23]
DFRWS welcomes new perspectives that push the envelope of what is currently possible in digital forensic, and that provide practical solutions for real-world problems. This year we are especially looking for contributions in the following areas:
- Industrial control system / SCADA forensics
- Deleted data recovery and analysis from IaaS and SaaS environments
- Multimedia authentication, beyond theory to real-world applications
- Aerospace forensics, including analysis of satellite systems and communications

For more information, please see https://dfrws.org/conferences/dfrws-usa-2023/.

WTMC 2023 8th International Workshop on Traffic Measurements for Cybersecurity, Co-located with 8th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE EuroS&P 2023), Delft, The Netherlands, July 7, 2023. [posted here 1/16/23]
Current communication networks are increasingly becoming pervasive, complex, and ever-evolving due to factors like enormous growth in the number of network users, continuous appearance of network applications, increasing amount of data transferred, and diversity of user behavior. Understanding and measuring traffic in such networks is a challenging yet vital task for network management but recently also for cybersecurity purposes. Network traffic measurement and monitoring can, for example, enable the analysis of the spreading of malicious software and its capabilities or can help to understand the nature of various network threats, including those that exploit user's behavior and other user's sensitive information. On the other hand, network traffic investigation can also help to assess the effectiveness of the existing countermeasures or contribute to building new, better ones. Traffic measurements have been utilized in the area of economics of cybersecurity e.g., to assess ISP "badness" or to estimate the revenue of cybercriminals. Recent research has focused on measurements of fake news and the interplay between misinformation and user engagement in news postings using different online platforms.

The WTMC workshop aims to bring together the research accomplishments provided by researchers from academia and the industry. The other goal is to show the latest research results in the field of cybersecurity and understand how traffic measurements can influence it. We encourage prospective authors to submit related distinguished research papers on the subject of both theoretical approaches and practical case reviews. This workshop presents some of the most relevant ongoing research in cybersecurity seen from the traffic measurements perspective. The workshop will be accessible to both non-experts interested in learning about this area and experts interested in hearing about new research and approaches.

For more information, please see https://wtmc.info/.

Euro S&P 2023 8th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy, Delft, Netherlands, July 3-7, 2023. [posted here 11/7/22]
The IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (Euro S&P) is the younger, more adventurous, and tastier sibling conference of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (“Oakland” or “NorCal S&P”) conference. It is a premier forum for computer security and privacy research, presenting the latest developments and bringing together researchers and practitioners. We solicit previously unpublished papers offering novel research contributions in security or privacy, as well as Systematization of Knowledge papers that systematize previous results. EuroS&P is interested in all aspects of applied computer security and privacy. We especially encourage papers that are far-reaching and risky, provided those papers show sufficient promise for creating interesting discussions and usefully questioning widely-held beliefs. Papers without a clear connection to security or privacy will be considered out of scope and may be rejected without full review.

For more information, please see https://eurosp2023.ieee-security.org/cfp.html.

CSCML 2023 7th International Symposium on Cyber Security Cryptography and Machine Learning, Virtually, Beer-Sheva, Israel, June 29-30, 2023. [posted here 1/23/23]
Original contributions to the theory, design, analysis, implementation, or application of cybersecurity, cryptography, and machine learning systems and networks, and, in particular, of conceptually innovative results are solicited. The Symposium is an international forum for researchers, entrepreneurs, and practitioners in the theory, design, analysis, implementation, or application of cybersecurity, cryptography, and machine learning systems and networks; and, in particular, of conceptually innovative results.

For more information, please see https://www.cscml.org/cscml2023.

MetaCom 2023 International Conference on Metaverse Computing, Networking and Applications, Kyoto, Japan, June 26-28, 2023. [posted here 10/24/22]
MetaCom 2023 provides a forum for academic researchers and industry practitioners to present research progresses, exchange new ideas, and identify future directions in the field of Computing, Networking, and Applications for Metaverse.

Metaverse is one of the key enablers for the future society, which is envisioned to bring a new revolution to digital world. For Metaverse, physical world will be seamlessly integrated with cyber world through digitizing physical objects to create digital twins, which poses numerous challenges on human-machine interfaces, ultra-low latency, extremely high resource demands, low traffic, reliability and trustworthiness. To realize this vision, it becomes indispensable for the convergence of computing, networking and applications for Metaverse in a wide range of domains including industry, finance, medical care, smart cities, entertainment, education, and agriculture. The conference solicits submissions from all research areas related to Metaverse computing, networking, as well as their corresponding systems and applications, including Security, Privacy, and Trust.

For more information, please see http://www.ieee-metacom.org/2023.

SecSoft 2023 5th International Workshop on Cyber-Security Threats, Trust and Privacy Management in Software-defined and Virtualized Infrastructures, Co-located with IEEE NetSoft 2023, Madrid, Spain, June 23, 2023. [posted here 2/20/23]
This workshop is a joint initiative from the H2020 EU Projects FLUIDOS, PALANTIR, SIFIS-Home, ELECTRON, RIGOUROUS, and CATRIN to create a dialogue about emerging cyber-security paradigms for virtualized environments and critical infrastructures. This Workshop aims to gather together novel approaches for providing organizations the appropriate situational awareness in relation to cyber security threats allowing them to quickly detect and effectively respond to sophisticated cyber-attacks. Multi-disciplinary and collaborative research projects are encouraged to submit joint papers describing their integrated architectures and cyber-security platforms, with special emphasis on how they address the challenging cyber-security requirements of softwarized environments and critical infrastructures.

For more information, please see https://www.secsoft-workshop.org/.

SecMT 2023 International Workshop on Security in Mobile Technologies, Held in conjunction with ACNS2023, Kyoto, Japan, June 19-22, 2023. [posted here 3/13/23]
Despite being small computing devices, smartphones offer a wide range of functionalities and services to their users, which are currently estimated to be more than six billion people worldwide. This range of features introduces new security and privacy threats, which expose users to serious damages. Even though research in mobile security has been active over the past 10 years, as long as the mobile technology is used, new challenges will always come up. The purpose of this workshop is to bring researchers, hardware and software developers, as well as practitioners and policy makers, to explore the latest advances in the security and privacy for mobile devices.

For more information, please see https://spritz.math.unipd.it/events/2023/ACNS_Workshop/index.html.

SP 2023 44th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, San Francisco, CA, USA, May 22-26, 2023. [posted here 2/28/22]
Since 1980 in Oakland, the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy has been the premier forum for computer security research, presenting the latest developments and bringing together researchers and practitioners. We solicit previously unpublished papers offering novel research contributions in any aspect of security or privacy. Papers may present advances in the theory, design, implementation, analysis, verification, or empirical evaluation and measurement of secure systems. Theoretical papers must make a convincing case for the relevance of their results to practice. Topics of interest include:
- Applied cryptography
- Attacks with novel insights, techniques, or results
- Authentication, access control, and authorization
- Blockchains and distributed ledger security
- Cloud computing security
- Cyber physical systems security
- Distributed systems security
- Economics of security and privacy
- Embedded systems security
- Formal methods and verification
- Hardware security
- Hate, Harassment, and Online Abuse
- Intrusion detection and prevention
- Machine learning and computer security
- Malware and unwanted software
- Network security
- Operating systems security
- Privacy-enhancing technologies, anonymity, and censorship
- Program and binary analysis
- Protocol security
- Security and privacy metrics
- Security and privacy policies
- Security architectures
- Security foundations
- Systems security
- Usable security and privacy
- Web security
- Wireless and mobile security/privacy

This topic list is not meant to be exhaustive; S&P is interested in all aspects of computer security and privacy. Papers without a clear application to security or privacy, however, will be considered out of scope and may be rejected without full review.

Systematization of Knowledge Papers: As in past years, we solicit systematization of knowledge (SoK) papers that evaluate, systematize, and contextualize existing knowledge, as such papers can provide a high value to our community. Suitable papers are those that provide an important new viewpoint on an established, major research area, support or challenge long-held beliefs in such an area with compelling evidence, or present a convincing, comprehensive new taxonomy of such an area. Survey papers without such insights are not appropriate and may be rejected without full review. Submissions will be distinguished by the prefix ìSoK:î in the title and a checkbox on the submission form. They will be reviewed by the full PC and held to the same standards as traditional research papers, but they will be accepted based on their treatment of existing work and value to the community, and not based on any new research results they may contain. Accepted papers will be presented at the symposium and included in the proceedings. You can find an overview of recent SoK papers at https://oaklandsok.github.io/.

For more information, please see https://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2023/cfpapers.html.

HOST 2023 16th IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust, San Jose, CA, USA, May 1-4, 2023. [posted here 8/29/22]
IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST) is the premier symposium that facilitates the rapid growth of hardware-based security research and development. Since 2008, HOST has served as the globally recognized event for researchers and practitioners to advance knowledge and technologies related to hardware security and assurance. HOST 2023 invites original contributions in all areas of overlap between hardware and security. This includes but is not limited to the following:
- Hardware Trojans
- TRNGs and PUFs
- Side-Channel Attacks and Countermeasures
- Hardware Obfuscation
- Architecture-level Security
- System/Board-level hardware security
- Cryptography-PQC
- Fault Injection Attacks and Countermeasures

For more information, please see http://www.hostsymposium.org.

OSNeHM 2023 1st International workshop on Online Social Networks in the Human-centric Metaverse, Co-located with the Web Conference 2023, Austin, Texas, USA, April 30 - May 4, 2023. [posted here 12/26/22]
The cyber and physical worlds are increasingly becoming indistinguishable. This is fostered by enabling technologies such as IoT and pervasive networks, advanced data management and analytics techniques, and advanced platforms with massive diffusion, chiefly among them Online Social Networks. Whatever we do in one world has immediate consequences on the other world, thanks to a constant flow of data - and online analytics - between the two worlds.

In this context, the vision of the Metaverse provides additional perspectives, augmenting human interactions with things and other humans across the two worlds. The role of the humans in this socio-technical complex system is key, and still largely unexplored. Quite interestingly, while new tools characteristic of the cyber-physical world - OSN among them - have been designed to largely extend human capabilities, the real interplay between these tools and human behaviours and cognitive constraints often result in unexpected results. Therefore, while humans are in principle at the center of the cyber-physical convergence and, thus – in the perspective – of the Metaverse, the interplay between both worlds and the technical solutions underpinning this convergence are hitherto largely unexplored and yet to be understood.

OSNeHM’s main theme will be the role of Online Social Networks in such a human-centric cyber-physical convergence leading to the Metaverse. It will provide a forum for discussion on early yet principled approaches and results on all aspects related to this theme. A special emphasis will be devoted to the characterisation of the individual and social behaviour of humans, using OSN as "big data microscopes" for collecting and analysing big data via robust big data analytics. Papers discussing solutions focusing on the interplay between social and technical (online and offline) worlds will be high welcome. On the other hand, the workshop will welcome papers proposing novel technical solutions to support human-centric approaches to the evolution of OSN in the perspective of the Metaverse.

For more information, please see https://osnehm.iit.cnr.it/.

CODASPY 2023 ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy, Charlotte, NC, USA, April 24-26, 2023. [posted here 8/22/22]
The goal of the ACM Conference on Data and Applications Security (CODASPY) is to discuss novel, exciting research topics in data and application security and privacy, and to lay out directions for further research and development in this area. The conference seeks submissions from diverse communities, including corporate and academic researchers, open-source projects, standardization bodies, governments, system and security administrators, software engineers and application domain experts. CODASPY 2023 will also feature a dataset and tool paper track, which will provide a unique venue for researchers and practitioners to make available and citable their work done to achieve datasets or tools relevant in security and privacy domain. Papers accepted in this track have to describe the available datasets or reporting on the design and implementation of application security and privacy tools. Dataset/tool papers are limited to 6 pages.
For more information, please see http://www.codaspy.org/2023/.

FHE 2023 2nd Annual FHE.org Conference on Fully Homomorphic Encryption, Co-located with Real World Crypto 2023, Tokyo, Japan, March 26, 2023. [posted here 9/12/22]
First envisioned in the late seventies, the first realization for fully homomorphic encryption only came three decades later. Fully homomorphic encryption has since been an active research topic. The FHE.org conference aims at being the premier forum gathering researchers, technologists and practitioners working on the design, development, deployment, validation, and applications of fully homomorphic encryption. The program committee is seeking original contributions on all aspects of fully homomorphic encryption. Submissions across a broad range of the development phases are encouraged, from exploratory research and proof-of-concept studies to practical applications and deployment of fully homomorphic encryption and related technologies.

For more information, please see https://fhe.org/conferences/conference-2023/home.

FSE 2023 29th Fast Software Encryption, Beijing, China, March 20-24, 2023. [posted here 8/29/22]
FSE 2023 is the 29th annual conference that is widely recognized as the internationally leading event in the area of symmetric cryptology. Since 2002, FSE is organized by the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR), a global organization with more than 1600 members that brings together researchers in cryptology. FSE focuses on fast and secure primitives for symmetric cryptography, that form the workhorse for all applications of cryptography (e.g., AES, SHA-2 and SHA-3). The event covers a broad range of practical and theoretical topics including the design and analysis of block ciphers, stream ciphers, encryption schemes, hash functions, message authentication codes, authenticated encryption schemes, cryptanalysis and evaluation tools, and secure implementations. The FSE conference event offers you the unique opportunity to meet more than 170 experts from across academia and industry.

For more information, please see https://fse.iacr.org/2023/.

VehicleSec 2023 Inaugural Symposium on Vehicle Security and Privacy, Held in conjunction with the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2023), San Diego, CA, USA, February 27, 2023. [posted here 11/14/22]
A vehicle is a machine that transports people and/or cargo in one or more physical domains, such as on the ground (e.g., cars, bicycles, motorcycles, trucks, buses, scooters, trains), in the air (e.g., drones, airplanes, helicopters, spacecraft), and under water (ships, boats, watercraft). Due to their safety-critical nature, the security and privacy of vehicles can pose direct threats to passengers, owners, operators, as well as the environment. Recent improvements in vehicle autonomy and connectivity (e.g., autonomous driving, drone delivery, vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication, intelligent transportation, drone swarm), have only served to exacerbate security and privacy challenges and thus require urgent attention from academia, industry, and policy-makers. To meet this critical need, the VehicleSec symposium aims at bringing together an audience of university researchers, scientists, industry professionals, and government representatives to contribute new theories, technologies, and systems on any security/privacy issues related to vehicles (e.g., ground, aerial, underwater), their sub-systems (e.g., in vehicle networks, autonomy, connectivity, human-machine interfaces), supporting infrastructures (e.g., transportation infrastructure, ground control station), and related fundamental technologies (e.g., sensing, control, AI/ML, real-time computing, location service, simulation, digital twin, etc.).

For more information, please see https://www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss2023/cfp-vehiclesec/.

USEC 2023 Usable Security and Privacy Symposium, Held in conjunction with NDSS 2023, San Diego, California, USA, Feb 27 - Mar 3, 2023. [posted here 11/7/22]
The Usable Security and Privacy (USEC) Symposium 2023 serves as an international forum for research and discussion in the area of human factors in security and privacy. We invite submissions from academia, government, and industry presenting novel research on all aspects of human-centric security and privacy. We welcome a variety of research methods, including empirical research and design research. Topics include, but are not limited to:
- innovative security or privacy functionality and design
- new applications of existing models or technology
- usability evaluations of new or existing security or privacy features and lessons learned
- security testing of new or existing usability features
- psychological, sociological, and economic aspects of security and privacy
- research and design methodologies for human-centric security and privacy research
- reports of replicating previously published studies and experiments
- reports of failed usable privacy/security studies or experiments, with the focus on the § lessons learned from such experience
- inclusive security and privacy
- ethics in human-centric security and privacy research
- workforce, labels, cyber-physical systems
- usability in smart manufacturing

For more information, please see https://www.usablesecurity.net/USEC/usec23/.

NDSS 2023 Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, San Diego, California, USA, February 27 - March 3, 2023. [posted here 6/6/22]
The Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) is a top venue that fosters information exchange among researchers and practitioners of computer, network and distributed system security. The target audience includes those interested in practical aspects of network and distributed system security, with a focus on actual system design and implementation. A major goal is to encourage and enable the Internet community to apply, deploy, and advance the state of practical security technologies.

Technical papers and panel proposals are solicited. Authors are encouraged to write the abstract and introduction of their paper in a way that makes the results accessible and compelling to a general computer-security researcher. All submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee and accepted submissions will be published by the Internet Society in the Proceedings of NDSS 2023. The Proceedings will be made freely accessible from the Internet Society web pages. Furthermore, permission to freely reproduce all or parts of papers for noncommercial purposes is granted provided that copies bear the Internet Society notice included in the first page of the paper. The authors are therefore free to post the camera-ready versions of their papers on their personal pages and within their institutional repositories. Reproduction for commercial purposes is strictly prohibited and requires prior consent.

For more information, please see https://www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss2023-call-for-papers/.

SaTML 2023 IEEE Conference on Secure and Trustworthy Machine Learning, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, February 8-10, 2023. [posted here 11/7/22]
This conference will expand on the theoretical and practical understandings of vulnerabilities inherent to ML systems, explore the robustness of ML algorithms and systems, and aid in developing a unified, coherent scientific community which aims to build trustworthy ML systems. We solicit research papers, systematization of knowledge papers, and position papers (see below for details about each of these categories). Areas of Interest include (but are not limited to):
- Trustworthy data curation
- Novel attacks on ML systems
- Methods for defending against attacks on ML systems
- Forensic analysis of ML systems
- Verifying properties of ML systems
- Securely and safely integrating ML into systems
- Privacy (e.g., confidentiality, inference privacy, machine unlearning)
- Fairness
- Accountability
- Transparency
- Interpretability

For more information, please see https://satml.org.

IFIP 11.9 DF 2023 19th Annual IFIP WG 11.9 International Conference on Digital Forensics, SRI International, Arlington, Virginia, USA, January 30-31, 2023. [posted here 8/15/22]
The IFIP Working Group 11.9 on Digital Forensics (www.ifip119.org) is an active international community of scientists, engineers and practitioners dedicated to advancing the state of the art of research and practice in digital forensics. The Nineteenth Annual IFIP WG 11.9 International Conference on Digital Forensics will provide a forum for presenting original, unpublished research results and innovative ideas related to the extraction, analysis and preservation of all forms of electronic evidence. Papers and panel proposals are solicited. All submissions will be refereed by a program committee comprising members of the Working Group. Papers and panel submissions will be selected based on their technical merit and relevance to IFIP WG 11.9. The conference will be limited to approximately 50 participants to facilitate interactions between researchers and intense discussions of critical research issues. Keynote presentations, revised papers and details of panel discussions will be published as an edited volume – the nineteenth volume in the well-known Research Advances in Digital Forensics book series (Springer, Cham, Switzerland) during the summer of 2023. Technical papers are solicited in all areas related to the theory and practice of digital forensics. Areas of special interest include, but are not limited to:
- Theories, techniques and tools for extracting, analyzing and preserving digital evidence
- Enterprise and cloud forensics
- Embedded device forensics
- Internet of Things forensics
- Digital forensic processes and workflow models
- Digital forensic case studies
- Legal, ethical and policy issues related to digital forensics

For more information, please see http://www.ifip119.org.