*** CALL FOR PAPERS *** 16th International Conference on Information Systems Security ------------------------------------------------------------ December 16-20, 2020 IIT Jammu, India http://www.iciss.org.in ************************************************* The 16th ICISS will be held in the scenic backdrop of Jammu (the Himalayan region of India) between December 16 and 20, 2020. This annual conference provides a forum for researchers and industry practitioners of security to present their cutting-edge research and use case experiences. ICISS is soliciting previously unpublished technical papers in the field of Security & Privacy. Papers that involve innovative solutions, usability studies, longitudinal studies, socio-economic aspects, SoK, are also welcome. A broad, non-exhaustive list of topics of interest is given below: - Operating systems - Networks, Communication - Distributed systems - APTs, Attacks & defenses - Access control, authorization - Trust management, PKI - Authentication, identity - Web applications, APIs - Information flow control - Cyber physical systems - Language, program analysis - Malware design, analysis - Threat modelling - Honeypots, Botnets - Blockchain, cryptocurrency - Digital payments, AML - Platform/Data economy - IoT, RFID, embedded sys. - Protocol analysis - Social networks/graphs - Applied cryptography - Formal models, verification - Privacy, Anonymity - Analytics, Econometrics - Online advertisements - Adware, Trackware - Surveillance & Censorship - Cybercrime, Cyber forensics - Fake news & Disinformation - Electronic voting - Smart cities/grids/homes - AI/ML models, xAI - SDN, NFV, SD-WAN - Cloud, hypervisors, VMs - Databases, Big-data - CHI, Usability, Social Engg. - Frameworks & Standards - Metrics, Policies - Hardware/software exploits - IDS, IPS, SIEM, tools *SUBMISSION GUIDELINES* All submissions must be written in English and the PDF version should not exceed 20 pages; including bibliography and appendices. Authors must use LNCS template to create the manuscript. The conference proceedings will appear in Springer LNCS series. Past proceedings of ICISS conferences are available at: http://dblp.org/db/conf/iciss. The extended versions of a select few accepted papers will be invited for publication in the Indian Academy of Sciences' journal - SADHANA http://www.ias.ac.in/sadhana. ICISS will also have a best paper award! *IMPORTANT DATES (AoE)* *Submissions due on:* August 17, 2020 *Notifications to authors:* October 05, 2020 *Camera-ready due on:* October 15, 2020 *STEERING COMMITTEE* Aditya Bagchi, ISI Kolkata, India Venu Govindaraju, University at Buffalo SUNY, USA Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University, USA Somesh Jha, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA Arun Majumdar, IIT Kharagpur, India Chandan Mazumdar, Jadavpur University, India Atul Prakash, University of Michigan, USA AS Ramasastri, IDRBT Hyderabad, India Pierangela Samarati, University of Milan, Italy RK Shyamasundar, IIT Bombay, India *GENERAL CHAIR:* Manoj Gaur, IIT Jammu *PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS* Salil Kanhere, UNSW Sydney, Australia Vishwas Patil, IIT Bombay, India Shamik Sural, IIT Kharagpur, India *WORKSHOP & TUTORIAL CO-CHAIRS* Venkata Badarla, IIT Tirupati Jimson Mathew, IIT Patna Somnath Tripathy, IIT Patna