• Network security and privacy (for all types of networks such as wired, wireless, mobile, hybrid, sensor, vehicular, satellite, 5G, 6G, ad hoc, peer-to-peer, and software-defined networks)
• Attacks on telecommunications and networking (e.g., malware, botnets, DoS, MitM, relay attacks, side channel attacks, phishing/pharming, DNS poisoning/hijacking, address spoofing, cybersquatting)
• Security protocols at all network layers and for different applications (e.g., for secure routing, naming/addressing, network management, remote authentication and attestation)
• Physical layer security (e.g., jamming, GPS spoofing)
• Systems security with a strong secure communication and networking element (e.g., security in cloud, edge and fog computing, IoT, RFID, cyber-physical sysytems, teleconferencing)
• Network intrusion detection and prevention, firewalls, packet filters
• Web and mobile security & privacy
• Anonymous communications and other forms of privacy-enhancing or privacy-aware communications (e.g., Tor, darknet)
• Distributed ledger technologies (blockchain and cryptocurrencies)
• Internet censorship and countermeasures
• Resilience of computer networks and critical infrastructures
• Visualisation of secure communications and networking
• Cyber (both offensive and defensive) deception related to secure communications and networking (e.g., honeypots / honeytokens, cyber fraud)
• False information online including mis-, dis- and mal-information
• Moving target defence
• Information hiding (steganography, steganalysis, and digital watermarking)
• Privacy-preserving computing in secure communication and networking
• Cryptographic systems for secure communications and networking (e.g., key management, multi-party computing, broadcast encryption, sectre sharing schemes)
• Quantum key distribution and other quantum-based secure communications
• Network, internet and cloud forensics
• Cyber threat intelligence and cyber incident responses
• Cybercrime investigation and attribution
• Data leakage/loss prevention/protection (DLP)
• Secure communication and networking applications (e.g., industry 4.0, energy, smart cities, transportation, water, logistics, waste)
• Security and privacy of contact tracing and other COVID-19 related digital interventions with a core element on telecommunications or networking
• Socio-technical aspects of secure communications and networking (e.g., usability, human behaviours, legal issues, cybercrime, economics)

SecureComm 2021 is calling for high-quality research contributions in ALL areas of secure communications and networking, including those addressing interdisciplinary challenges in different application domains. Topics in less related areas will be considered only if a clear connection to secure communication/networking is demonstrated in the title or the abstract.

This event is organized by EAI.

EAI – European Alliance for Innovation is a non-profit organization and a professional community established in cooperation with the European Commission to empower the global research and innovation, and to promote cooperation between European and International ICT communities.

EAI’s vision is to foster excellence in research and innovation on the principles of transparency, objectivity, equality, and openness. Our guiding principle is community cooperation to create better research, provide fair recognition of excellence and transform best ideas into commercial value proposition.

EAI‘s mission is to create an environment that rewards excellence transparently, and builds recognition objectively regardless of age, economic status or country of origin, where no membership fees or closed door committees stand in the way of your research career.

Through these shared values, EAI leads the way toward advancing the world of research and innovation, empowering individuals and institutions for the good of society to fully benefit from the digital revolution.