Workshop Description

With the great success and development of 5G and beyond systems as well as other emerging concepts, 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 2025 workshop aims at collecting the most relevant ongoing research efforts in emerging network security field. It also serves as a forum for 5G and 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 and Beyond community with other communities (e.g. AI) that are key to support full attainment of 5G and Beyond but also 6G promises and so for those technologies to release their full potential.

The ENS workshop builds upon three successful editions of the 5G-NS (5G Networks Security) workshop organized previously in co-location with the ARES conference since 2018.

Topics of interest for current and emerging networks (5G and Beyond, 6G, …) include, but are not limited to:
• Security Architecture and Technologies
• Security Management and its automation
• Attack and Threat Detection
• DDoS Detection and Mitigation
• Security Frameworks for Various Applications and Scenarios
• Access Control Security
• Security Protocols
• Security Management and Orchestration of NFV and SDN Elements
• Software Defined Security
• Security as a Service
• Trusted Computing with NFV and SDN
• Physical Layer Security
• Wireless Communications Security
• SDN/NFV Security
• Core Network Security
• Terminal and Edge Computing
• Security of MEC Infrastructure
• Malware Attack Detection and Prevention Techniques
• Information Sharing and Data Protection
• Big Data Security and Analytics
• AI-enabled Security
• Cloud Technologies Security
• Privacy Preservation and Enhancement
• Intrusion Detection and Content Access Control
• Trust Management in Heterogeneous
• Identity Management and Trustworthiness
• Intelligent Security Provisioning
• Trust Collaboration
• Liability in Current and Emerging Networks
• Compliance with legislation and regulation that apply IoT security and trust
• 5G/6G, etc. and Artificial Intelligence
• Named Data Networking

Important Dates

Submission Deadline: May 08, 2026
Author notification: June 1st, 2026
Camera-ready version: June 13, 2026

Workshop Chairs

Krzysztof Cabaj (Chair) – Main contact person,
Warsaw University of Technology, Poland (PERUN Project)
krzysztof.cabaj@pw.edu.pl

Wojciech Mazurczyk (Chair)
Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
FernUniversitaet in Hagen, Germany (PERUN Project)
wojciech.mazurczyk@pw.edu.pl

Pascal Bisson (Chair)
Thales, France (5GDrones & INSPIRE-5Gplus H2020 Project, 5G IA SEC WG chair)
pascal.bisson@thalesgroup.com

Edgardo Montes de Oca (Chair)
Montimage, France (Networld Europe steering board member, SNS JU NATWORK and
DETERMINISTIC6G projects)
edgardo.montesdeoca@montimage.com

Ilsun You (Chair)
Kookmin University, South Korea
ilsunu@gmail.com