You are cordially invited to submit to the Fifth International Symposium on
Cyber Security Cryptography and Machine Learning (CSCML 2021) that will
take place on July 8-9, 2021, Corona pending virtually and/or in Saal
Auditorium (202), located in Alon Building for Hi-Tech (37) at Ben-Gurion
University (Marcus Family Campus), Beer-Sheva, Israel.

This year we are excited to announce that our Keynote Speakers for CSCML 21:

Steve Blank, one of the most successful serial entrepreneurs in
the world.

Bruce Schneier, internationally renowned security technologist.

1. Original Research: submission of a paper of up to 15 pages
accompanied by a regular presentation of 15 minutes. Accepted papers
will be published in Springer LNCS, in addition, a special issue of
the journal Information and Computation will be dedicated to selected
papers from CSCML 2021.

2. Entrepreneurship Pitch: submission of a PowerPoint/PDF abstract of
up to 6 pages accompanied by a presentation of 5 to 10
minutes. Accepted pitches will be presented during the
"Entrepreneurship Pitch Track" in front of VCs and industry
experts. In addition, the selected 3 best pitches will receive a
certificate for 'excellence of innovation'.

3. Student Research: submission of an abstract of up to 3 pages
accompanied by a short presentation. Those submissions that are
accepted will be gathered in a technical report. Please note, that the
deadline for Student Research Submission is LATER than March 21, 2021.

4. "Capture the Flag" Hackathon on cybersecurity is planned to take
place during the first day of the symposium.


Paper Submission Deadline: February 14, 2021
Authors Notification Due: March 21, 2021
Camera-Ready Copy Due: March 31, 2021
Early Registration Due: June 1, 2021
Conference Date: 8-9, July 2021

Scope of the Conference:

 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. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

 - Cyber Security Design
 - Secure Software Development Methodologies
 - Formal methods, semantics, and verification of secure systems
 - Fault tolerance, reliability, availability of distributed secure systems
 - Game-theoretic approaches to secure computing
 - Automatic recovery self-stabilizing, and self-organizing systems
 - Communication, authentication and identification security
 - Cybersecurity for Mobile and Internet of Things
 - Cybersecurity of corporations
 - Security and privacy for cloud, Edge and Fog computing
 - Cryptocurrency
 - Blockchain
 - Cryptography
 - Cryptographic implementation analysis and construction
 - Secure multi-party computation
 - Privacy-enhancing technologies and anonymity
 - Post-quantum cryptography and security
 - Machine Learning & Big Data
 - Anomaly detection and malware identification
 - Business Intelligence and Security
 - Digital Forensics, Digital Rights Management
 - Trust management and Reputation Systems
 - Information retrieval, Risk analysis, DoS

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.

Friday, July 9th, will be dedicated to networking during a field
seminar in the Negev. Networking among the researchers, the
entrepreneurs, the VCs and the industry participants.

Please be sure to spread the word to anyone you think may be
interested in submitting and/or attending.

We're looking forward to meeting you at CSCML 2021!
https://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~fradmin/cscml21/index.html
Please note, the website is still under construction.

The PDF version of the Call for Papers can be found here:
https://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~fradmin/cscml21/cscml21.pdf

Program Committee Co-Chairs
Oded Margalit, Benny Pinkas, Alexander Schwarzmann


General Chairs
Shlomi Dolev and Sachin Lodha


In the name of the Steering Committee:

Orna Berry, DELL EMC, Israel
Shlomi Dolev, Chair, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
Yuval Elovici, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
Ehud Gudes, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
Jonathan Katz, University of Maryland, USA
Rafail Ostrovsky, UCLA, USA
Jeffrey D. Ullman, Stanford University, USA
Kalyan Veeramachaneni, MIT, USA
Yaron Wolfsthal, IBM, Israel
Moti Yung, Columbia University and Snapchat, USA