[hpc-announce] Final Call: ICISS-2024 (Security Conference), Firm Deadline July 31

[Preetam Mukherjee]

                         CALL FOR PAPERS

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The 20th International Conference on Information Systems Security

                           (ICISS-2024)

                      December 16 - 20, 2024

                       LNMIIT Jaipur, INDIA

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ICISS 2024 is accepting submissions under various tracks.

Please consider submitting your security research to ICISS 2024.





KEY HIGHLIGHTS:

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- submission deadline has been extended to July 31, 2024

- double-blind review, best paper award, proceedings as LNCS

- exceptionally good papers will be invited to Sadhana journal



+ pre-conference winter school (Security Challenges with GenAI)

+ hands-on tutorial: Malware Hunt by KASPERSKY Labs



+ KEYNOTES by:

    Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Technical University of Darmstadt

    Alessandro Mei, Sapienza University of Rome

    Anoop Singhal, NIST

    Kari Konstiainen, ETH Zurich

    Aanchal Malhotra, Ripple

    Vincenzo Piuri, Univ of Milan

    Pierangela Samarati, Univ of Milan







ABOUT ICISS 2024:

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The 20th ICISS will be held at the LNM Institute of Information

Technology (LNMIIT) Jaipur between December 16 and 20, 2024. 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 We solicit previously unpublished technical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.



ICISS also accepts submissions under Industry/Demo track demonstrating

implementations/PoC in the area of systems security, and a separate

track for PhD students presenting their early/WiP through lightning

talks & posters. ICISS has generous funds supporting student to attend

pre-conference school (tutorials, etc.) and the main conference.



A broad but non-exhaustive list of TOPICS OF INTEREST is as below:



SYSTEMS SECURITY

   OS, VM, containers, cloud

   Network: SDN, NFV, SD-WAN

   IoT, RFID, SCADA systems

   Communication Protocols

   IDS, IPS, SIEM, XDR, etc

   Honeypot, Botnet, etc



ACCESS CONTROL

   Authentication, MFA

   Authorization model/policy

   PKI & Trust management

   Information flow control



APPLICATION SECURITY

   Vulnerabilities, DevSecOps

   API security, WAF, OWASP

   Static/Binary analysis, Zero trust

   Malware, Ransomware, APTs



HARDWARE SECURITY

   Remote attestation, PUFs

   Trojans, Backdoors, FPGA

   TEE, TRNG, 2FA, payment wallets



PRIVACY

   PETs, anonymization tech

   Deidentification attacks

   Surveillance & Censorship

   Inference, correlation attacks



BLOCKCHAIN

   Cryptocurrency, stablecoins

   Interoperability, scalability

   Smart contracts, concurrency

   DIDs, NFTs, CBDCs, AML



SECURITY IN AI/ML

   Adversarial learning/inputs

   Prompt injection, RLHF strategies

   Model stealing, poisoning



EMERGING TECH/STANDARDS

   ChatGPT, LaMDA, Dall-E 2, et al

   Security-by-design, SBOM

   Privacy-by-design, STIX/TAXII



S&P USE CASES

   e-voting, e-gov, smart cities

   COVID-19 contact tracing





SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

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Submissions must be written in English and should not exceed 20 pages

using LNCS format; including the bibliography and appendices.

DOUBLE-BLIND review process will be followed, therefore the

manuscripts should not have author names, affiliations,

acknowledgements, self-references or any indirect information related

to authors of the manuscript. Please read the submission guidelines

carefully before submitting to ICISS. The extended versions of a

select few exceptional papers will be invited for publication in the

Indian Academy of Sciences' journal Sadhana.



Use of tools like ChatGPT while preparing the manuscripts must be

explicitly mentioned as a footnote. Manuscripts must comply with the

detailed submission guidelines provided on the website.



Detailed Guidelines: https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://iciss.isrdc.in/submission-guidelines/__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!a59OIxfZUPS78rxdAUO24Lm1Gls1MSyIYvp_VveIQ9ee-7Bfx0ty_eREFvKFrd1fPTKsaqVn8vgawn8NBXs4BrFACNvoGCBJhW1t$ 



Past Proceedings: https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://dblp.org/db/conf/iciss__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!a59OIxfZUPS78rxdAUO24Lm1Gls1MSyIYvp_VveIQ9ee-7Bfx0ty_eREFvKFrd1fPTKsaqVn8vgawn8NBXs4BrFACNvoGB8Osas_$ 

                  https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://link.springer.com/conference/iciss__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!a59OIxfZUPS78rxdAUO24Lm1Gls1MSyIYvp_VveIQ9ee-7Bfx0ty_eREFvKFrd1fPTKsaqVn8vgawn8NBXs4BrFACNvoGJOWxmM2$ 



THERE WILL BE A BEST PAPER AWARD! The award constitutes a monetary

component of INR 15,000 sponsored by IDRBT Hyderabad.



The conference will be preceded by a WINTER SCHOOL covering a set of

state-of-the-art topics delivered by experts from the field.



A hands-on tutorial on Malware Hunt will be delivered by the

KASPERSKY Labs GReAT Team.



GENERAL CHAIR:

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     RK Shyamasundar, IIT Bombay





PROGRAM CHAIRS:

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     Ram Krishnan, University of Texas at San Antonio

     Vishwas Patil, IIT Bombay & IIM Mumbai





STEERING COMMITTEE:

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     Venu Govindaraju, University of Buffalo

     Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University

     Somesh Jha, University of Wisconsin

     Atul Prakash, University of Michigan

     Pierangela Samarati, University of Milan

     RK Shyamasundar, IIT Bombay





IMPORTANT DATES (in AoE):

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     Submission deadline: July 31, 2024 (firm deadline, AoE)

     Acceptance notification: Sep 20, 2024

     Camera-ready deadline: Sep 30, 2024





LINKS TO CALLS FOR OTHER TRACKS:

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PhD Forum Track: https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://iciss.isrdc.in/phd-forum/__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!a59OIxfZUPS78rxdAUO24Lm1Gls1MSyIYvp_VveIQ9ee-7Bfx0ty_eREFvKFrd1fPTKsaqVn8vgawn8NBXs4BrFACNvoGGP7e9P3$ 

Tutorials Track: https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://iciss.isrdc.in/tutorials/__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!a59OIxfZUPS78rxdAUO24Lm1Gls1MSyIYvp_VveIQ9ee-7Bfx0ty_eREFvKFrd1fPTKsaqVn8vgawn8NBXs4BrFACNvoGLA_ipZy$ 

Demo Track: https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://iciss.isrdc.in/call-for-industry-demo-papers/__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!a59OIxfZUPS78rxdAUO24Lm1Gls1MSyIYvp_VveIQ9ee-7Bfx0ty_eREFvKFrd1fPTKsaqVn8vgawn8NBXs4BrFACNvoGLG-jnS3$ 





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