SECITC 2023
November 23-24, 2023
SECITC 2023
International Conference on Security
for Information Technology and Communications
Zoom for online attendees:
https://ase.zoom.us/j/86207574148?pwd=ZTFrbzdrRVVwODdjSnA5K2VBeFJlQT09
SecITC brings together computer security researchers, cryptographers, industry representatives and graduate students interested in any aspect of information security and privacy.
One of the SECITC’s primary goal is connecting security and privacy researchers as well as professionals from different communities and providing a forum that allows informal exchanges necessary for the emergence of new scientific and industrial collaborations.
Organizers
Conference Program
Call For Papers
The 16th International Conference on Security for Information Technology and Communications (SECITC 2023) will be held on November 23-24, 2023. Due to the post CoVID situation, the conference will take place in hybrid mode – online via video conference platform and/or physical attendance for the ones who are available. The conference venue for the physical attendance will be the Palace of the National Military Circle, located right in the heart of Bucharest, the capital city of Romania. The researchers all around the world may join online or in person. SECITC brings together computer security researchers, cryptographers, industry representatives and graduate students interested in any aspect of information security and privacy. One of SECITC’s primary goal is connecting security and privacy researchers as well as professionals from different communities and providing a forum that allows informal exchanges necessary for the emergence of new scientific and industrial collaborations.
The conference topics comprise all aspects of information security, including but not limited to the following areas:
- Access control,
- Algorithmic Tools for Security and Cryptography,
- Application security,
- Attacks and defences,
- Authentication Biometry,
- Blockchain Security and Security aspects of alternative currencies,
- Censorship and censorship-resistance,
- Cloud and Web Security,
- Cryptography, biometric and watermarking,
- Distributed systems security,
- Embedded systems security,
- Digital forensics,
- Hardware security,
- Information flow analysis,
- Internet of Things (IoT) Security,
- Intrusion detection and prevention system,
- Language-based security,
- Malware and Ransomware,
- Mobile security,
- Network security,
- New exploits,
- Policy enforcements,
- Privacy and anonymity,
- Protocol security,
- Reverse-engineering and code obfuscation,
- Security architectures,
- Side channel attacks,
- Surveillance and anti-surveillance,
- System security.
Publishing
The SecITC conference has a tradition regarding the publishing of the post-proceedings scientific papers in Springer LNCS – with title “Innovative Security Solutions for Information Technology and Communications”, as follows:
- SECITC 2022 – Springer as LNCS vol. 13809;
- SECITC 2021 – Springer as LNCS vol. 13195;
- SECITC 2020 – Springer as LNCS vol. 12596;
- SECITC 2019 – Springer as LNCS vol. 12001;
- SECITC 2018 – Springer as LNCS vol. 11359;
- SECITC 2017 – Springer as LNCS vol. 10543;
- SECITC 2016 – Springer as LNCS vol. 10006;
- SECITC 2015 – Springer as LNCS vol. 9522.
Paper submission and refereeing for SECITC 2023 will take place via EasyChair and the post-proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.
Conference Chairs – Surname alphabetical order
Mark MANULIS | Universität der Bundeswehr München | GERMANY | |
Diana MAIMUT | Technology Innovation Institute | UAE | |
George TESELEANU | Advanced Technologies Institute | ROMANIA |
Keynote speakers
Bart PRENEEL | COSIC, KU Leuven | BELGIUM | Presentation: Cybersecurity and AI | |
Ahmad-Reza SADEGHI | TU Darmstadt | GERMANY | Presentation: The Challenge of Securing Federated Learning Against Poisoning Attacks | |
Ivan VISCONTI | University of Salerno | ITALY | Presentation: Enhanced Non-Fungible Tokens |
Bart PRENEEL is a full professor at the KU Leuven, where he heads the COSIC research group, which has 100 members. He was visiting professor at five universities in Europe. His main research interests are cryptography, cybersecurity and privacy. He has been invited speaker at more than 150 conferences in 50 countries. He received the RSA Award for Excellence in the Field of Mathematics (2014) and is a fellow of the IACR. He also received the ESORICS Outstanding Research Award (2017) and the Kristian Beckman award from IFIP TC11 (2016). He has served as president of the IACR (International Association for Cryptologic Research). Bart Preneel frequently consults for industry and government about cybersecurity and privacy technologies. He was technical lead for the contact tracing app Coronalert. He is co-founder and Board Member of the start-up nextAuth, Board Member of the scale-up Approach Belgium and Advisory Board Member for Tioga Capital Partners and Nym Technologies. He has been actively involved in cybersecurity policy debates and is serving on the Advisory Group of ENISA.
Title of the presentation: Cybersecurity and AI. Abstract: TBA
Ahmad-Reza SADEGHI is a full professor of Computer Science at the Technical University of Darmstadt in Germany. He heads the System Security Lab and has a strong partnership with several industry partners, such as Intel, collaborating on various research areas like Secure Computing in Mobile and Embedded Systems, Autonomous and Resilient Systems, and Private and Trustworthy AI. In 2019, he co-founded the Open Lab for Sustainable Security and Safety (OpenS3 Lab) with Huawei. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science with a focus on Cryptography from the University of Saarland. Before entering academia, he gained industry experience in the telecommunications sector, including working at Ericsson. Throughout his career, Prof. Sadeghi has led and contributed to numerous national and international projects in the EU, the US, and Asia on Trustworthy Computing Platforms, Hardware-assisted Security, IoT Security and Privacy, Applied Cryptography, and Trustworthy AI. Prof. Sadeghi has been actively providing academic services to the research community as the technical or general chair and program committee member of many influential conferences in Information Security and Privacy and Design and Automation, such as ACM CCS, IEEE Security & Privacy, NDSS, USENIX Security, DAC, DATE, and ICCAD. He served as the Editor-In-Chief of IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine and has been on the editorial boards of leading journals, including ACM Transactions on Information & System Security (TISSEC), IEEE TCAD, ACM Books, ACM DIOT, ACM TODAES, and ACM DTRAP. He received Karl Heinz Beckurts Prize in 2008 for advancing Trusted and Trustworthy Computing technology. The award honors excellent scientific achievements with a high impact on industrial innovations in Germany. He received the German IT Security Competition Award in 2010, the ACM SIGSAC Outstanding Contributions Award in 2018 for significant contributions to security, and the Intel Academic Leadership Award in 2021 for influential research in information and computer security. In 2022, he was honored with the prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant.
Title of the presentation: The Challenge of Securing Federated Learning Against Poisoning Attacks. Abstract: Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as an innovative paradigm, facilitating collaborative Deep Neural Network training among distributed entities without sharing their data. Nevertheless, entrusting the training process to external parties allows malicious participants to inject adversarial perturbations into the model. This challenge has sparked significant interest in FL poisoning attacks and defense strategies, leading to a substantial body of research literature. However, the threat of poisoning attacks remains a persisting challenge, primarily due to the inherent limitations of existing defense strategies and the foundational assumptions they rely upon. In this talk, we briefly systematize existing works on FL attacks and defenses, including our contributions, and dive into their strengths and shortcomings. Finally, we explore the ongoing challenges on the path towards establishing a more resilient collaborative learning.
Ivan VISCONTI is a professor of Computer Science at University of Salerno. His research focuses on cryptographic protocols and blockchain technology. He has served multiple times in program committees of prestigious IACR conferences. He contributed over the years to the design of enhanced notions of zero-knowledge proofs and other fundamental cryptographic building blocks.
Title of the presentation: Enhanced Non-Fungible Tokens. Abstract: NFTs are among the most relevant applications of blockchain technology. They have generated great enthusiasm due to their flexibility, but also some serious criticism due to various limitations of current instantiations. This talk will illustrate how to use cryptographic tools to obtain enhanced notions of NFTs that bypass some of the above limitations.
Program Committee – Surname alphabetical order
Iulian ACIOBANITEI | Military Technical Academy | ROMANIA | |
Claudio ARDAGNA | Universita degli Studi di Milano | ITALY | |
Lasse BERNTZEN | The University College of Southeast Norway (USN) | NORWAY | |
Ion BICA | Military Technical Academy | ROMANIA | |
Catalin BOJA | Bucharest University of Economic Studies | ROMANIA | |
Guillaume BOUFFARD | ANSSI | FRANCE | |
Samia BOUZEFRANE | CEDRIC Lab Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers | FRANCE | |
Jeremy CHAMBOREDON | Technology Innovation Institute | UAE | |
Cristian CIUREA | Bucharest University of Economic Studies | ROMANIA | |
Christophe CLAVIER | Université de Limoges | FRANCE | |
Otto CSANYI | Sappi | AUSTRIA | |
Paolo D’ARCO | University of Salerno | ITALY | |
Roberto De PRISCO | University of Salerno / Universita’ di Salerno | ITALY | |
Eric DIEHL | Sony Pictures | USA | |
Mihai DOINEA | Bucharest University of Economic Studies | ROMANIA | |
Vlad DRAGOI | Litis | ROMANIA | |
Mohamed Amine FERRAG | Technology Innovation Institute | UAE | |
Eric FREYSSINET | Loria Laboratory | FRANCE | |
Dieter GOLLMANN | Hamburg University of Technology | GERMANY | |
Rémi GERAUD-STEWART | ENS | FRANCE | |
Gerhard HANCKE | City University of Hong Kong | HONG KONG, CHINA | |
Helena HANDSCHUH | Rambus Inc | USA | |
Shoichi HIROSE | University of Fukui | JAPAN | |
Mehmet Sabir KIRAZ | De Montfort University | UK | |
Miroslaw KUTYLOWSKI | Wroclaw University of Technology | POLAND | |
Giovanni LIVRAGA | University of Milano | ITALY | |
Diana MAIMUT | Technology Innovation Institute | UAE | |
Mark MANULIS | Universität der Bundeswehr München | GERMANY | |
Stig MJOLSNES | Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) | NORWAY | |
David NACCACHE | ENS | FRANCE | |
Svetla NIKOVA | KU Leuven | BELGIUM | |
Andrei-George OPRINA | Advanced Technologies Institute & University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest | ROMANIA | |
Victor Valeriu PATRICIU | Military Technical Academy | ROMANIA | |
Marius POPA | Bucharest University of Economic Studies | ROMANIA | |
Joachim POSEGGA | University of Passau | GERMANY | |
Peter ROENNE | University of Luxembourg | LUXEMBOURG | |
Peter RYAN | University of Luxembourg | LUXEMBOURG | |
Damien SAUVERON | Universite de Limoges | FRANCE | |
Emil SIMION | University ‘Politehnica’ Bucharest | ROMANIA | |
El Mamoun SOUIDI | University Mohammed V in Rabat | MOROCCO | |
Riccardo SPOLAOR | Shandong University | CHINA | |
Pantelimon STĂNICĂ | Naval Postgraduate School | USA | |
Rainer STEINWANDT | University of Alabama in Huntsville | USA | |
George TESELEANU | Advanced Technologies Institute | ROMANIA | |
Norbert TIHANYI | Technology Innovation Institute | UAE | |
Ferucio Laurentiu TIPLEA | Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi | ROMANIA | |
Mihai TOGAN | Military Technical Academy | ROMANIA | |
Cristian TOMA | Bucharest University of Economic Studies | ROMANIA | |
Denis TRCEK | University of Ljubljana | SLOVENIA | |
Alin ZAMFIROIU | Bucharest University of Economic Studies | ROMANIA | |
Lei ZHANG | East China Normal University | CHINA |
Conference Deadlines
Full Paper Submission: September 20th, 2023 at 23:59 UTC/GMT, October 1st, 2023 at 23:59 UTC/GMT
Notification for acceptance: November 1st, 2023
Registration deadline: November 6th, 2023
Conference: November 23-24th, 2023
Submission is done at @ https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=secitc2023
Authors Information
Paper Format
- Submissions must not be substantially duplicate work that any of the authors has published elsewhere or has submitted in parallel for consideration to any other journal, conference/workshop with proceedings. The submission should begin with a title followed by a short abstract and keywords. Submissions must be in PDF format and should have at most 12 pages excluding the bibliography and appendices, and at most 20 pages in total, using Springer LNCS format. All submissions must be anonymous. The reviewers are not required to read appendices—the paper should be intelligible without them. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. Authors of accepted papers should guarantee that at least one of the authors will attend the conference and present their paper.
- Paper submission and review process is handled via EasyChair platform. All submissions must be in PDF format. For paper submission follow the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=secitc2023
- As the final accepted papers will be published in LNCS by Springer, it is recommended that the submissions be processed in LaTeX2e or Word according to the instructions listed on the Springer’s LNCS Webpage: www.springer.com/lncs. These instructions are mandatory for the final papers.
- In particular, Springer’s LNCS paper formatting requirements can be found at: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines
Registration Fees
- The conference registration fee is 75 € (EURO) for non-students.
- The conference promotes results obtained by young researchers (undergraduate, graduate, master students, and Ph.D. students) by providing free participation opportunities, but the publishing and operational costs are covered by a fee of 50 € (EURO). Young researchers must provide proof of their university enrolment and must present results obtained individually or with other fellow students.
Payment
- Payment can be done only by bank transfer.
- The bank accounts (IBAN) are:
- For ROL (Romanian currency), Transilvania Bank: RO21 BTRL RONC RT00 G606 7701
- For EUR (European currency), Transilvania Bank: RO06 BTRL EURC RT00 G606 7701
- The SWIFT code of Transilvania Bank is: BTRLRO22
- BENEFICIARY DETAILS: “Asociatia Clubul Informaticii Economice – Cyber Knowledge Club” Non-Profit Association, Fiscal Registration Code (CIF) / Unique Registration Code (CUI): 31079668, No. Reg. Comm.: J84/21.11.2012, Social Address: Bld. Mărăşeşti 19/4, District 4, Bucharest, with postal address: str. Calea Dorobantilor no. 15-17, “Virgil Madgearu” Building, room 2210 / 2315, District 1, Bucharest, web: www.cyberknowledgeclub.org
- PLEASE SPECIFY IN YOUR PAYMENT ORDER DETAILS: SECITC2023
- Authors are requested to send to the Conference e-mail (secitc@ase.ro and secitc@gmail.com) the bank transfer confirmation document in order to validate the payment. Until the secretariat receives the document, the registration is considered incomplete.
Authors must pay the international transfer fee requested by the bank.
Registration benefits - Paper publication in the Springer’s LNCS or Conference Proceedings volume with ISBN / ISSN number.
- Access to all conference sessions, keynote lectures
- Authors of the papers will receive additional an invitation to submit a version of their work to a different on-line journal – e.g. IE, JMEDS.
Important notes
- Electronic registration and confirmation date is in November. For the electronic registration, it is enough to send e-mail to secitc@gmail.com with the payment order as attachment and the client details, in order to able us to reply with the electronic invoice. The SecITC Team will do its best to provide the invoice associated to the payment orders. Also please register via RSVP form from the webpage.
- There will be no refunds for cancellations received after the registration date.
- If the payment is made by cheque, the authors must support the extra fee for bank handling costs.
- SecITC2023 will take place in hybrid approach – physical and/or online via Zoom platform and it will be joinable from any place on Earth. The conference venue for the physical attendance will be the Palace of the National Military Circle, located right in the heart of Bucharest, the capital city of Romania.
Technical Support Team
- Luciana MOROGAN – Military Technical Academy, ROMANIA
- Bogdan IANCU – Bucharest University of Economic Studies, ROMANIA
- Mihai PURA – Military Technical Academy, ROMANIA
- Emil SIMION – University Politehnica of Bucharest, ROMANIA
- Andrei-George OPRINA – Advanced Technologies Institute & University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, ROMANIA
- Ioana Corina BOGDAN –Transilvania University of Brasov, Brasov, ROMANIA
- Simona Mihaela BIBIC – University Politehnica of Bucharest, ROMANIA
- Elena Corina CIPU – University Politehnica of Bucharest, ROMANIA
Partners and Sponsors
- Cyber | IT Security Master – Bucharest University of Economic Studies
- Information Technology Security Master – Military Technical Academy
- Coding and Storage Theory of Information Master University Politehnica of Bucharest
- Advanced Technologies Institute
- Center for Research and Training in Innovative Techniques of Applied Mathematics in Engineering
- TCSI: https://www.tcsi.ro/
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