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The 20th International Conference on Information Systems Security
(ICISS-2024)
December 16 - 20, 2024
LNMIIT Jaipur, INDIA
https://iciss.isrdc.in
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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 for regular papers track: July 10, 2024
- double-blind review
- best paper award
- proceedings published by Springer LNCS
- possibility of an invitation to exceptionally good papers to be
submitted to the Sadhana journal


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 We solicit previously unpublished technical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://iciss.isrdc.in/submission-guidelines/
Submission Link: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ICISSconf2024
Past Proceedings: https://dblp.org/db/conf/iciss

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 precedeed by a WINTER SCHOOL covering a set of
state-of-the-art topics delivered by experts from the field.


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


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 10, 2024
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://iciss.isrdc.in/phd-forum/
Tutorials Track: https://iciss.isrdc.in/tutorials/
Demo Track: https://iciss.isrdc.in/call-for-industry-demo-papers/



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