CALL FOR PAPERS 18th International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT 2021) July 6-8, 2021 http://www.secrypt.icete.org SECRYPT is an annual international conference covering research in information and communication security. The 18th International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT 2021) will be held in streaming, July 6-8, 2021. The conference seeks submissions from academia, industry, and government presenting novel research on all theoretical and practical aspects of data protection, privacy, security, and cryptography. Papers describing the application of security technology, the implementation of systems, and lessons learned are also encouraged. CONFERENCE TOPICS The conference topics include, but are not limited to: Access Control Anonymity Applied Cryptography Biometrics Security and Privacy Blockchains Security Critical Infrastructure Protection Data Integrity Data Protection Database Security and Privacy Digital Forensics Digital Rights Management Ethical and Legal Implications of Security and Privacy Formal Methods for Security Human Factors and Human Behavior Recognition Techniques Identification, Authentication and Non-Repudiation Identity Management Information Hiding Information Systems Auditing Insider Threats and Countermeasures Intellectual Property Protection Intrusion Detection & Prevention Machine Learning and AI Security Management of Computing Security Network Security Organizational Security Policies Peer-to-Peer Security Personal Data Protection for Information Systems Privacy Privacy Enhancing Technologies Reliability and Dependability Risk Assessment Secure Software Development Methodologies Security and Privacy for Big Data Security and Privacy in Complex Systems Security and Privacy in Crowdsourcing Security and Privacy in IT Outsourcing Security and Privacy in Location-Based Services Security and Privacy in Mobile Systems Security and Privacy in Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing Security and Privacy in Smart Grids Security and Privacy in Social Networks Security and Privacy in the Cloud Security and Privacy in Web Services Security and Privacy Policies Security Area Control Security Deployment Security Engineering Security in Distributed Systems Security Information Systems Architecture Security Management Security Metrics and Measurement Security Protocols Security Requirements Security usability Security Verification and Validation Sensor and Mobile Ad Hoc Network Security Service and Systems Design and QoS Network Security Software Security Trust Management and Reputation Systems Ubiquitous Computing Security Wireless Network Security PAPER SUBMISSIONS Submitted papers must be in English and must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Submissions are to be made to the submission web site at https://www.insticc.org/primoris Papers can be submitted as REGULAR or POSITION papers. - REGULAR Paper: Regular papers present work where research is completed. They can be up to 12 pages. Authors of regular submitted papers will indicate at the time of submission whether they would like their paper to also be considered for publication as a position paper. - POSITION Paper: A position paper presents results that are preliminary or that simply require fewer pages to describe. A position paper may be a short report and discussion of ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research (theoretical or experimental) on one of the conference topics. The acceptance of a position paper is restricted to the categories of "short paper" Submitted papers must be formatted according to the SECRYPT format, which is described at http://www.secrypt.icete.org/Guidelines.aspx Submission page limit is 12 pages for regular paper and 8 pages for position papers. Accepted papers will be subject to the limit of: 12 pages for full papers, 8 pages for short papers with oral presentation, and 6 pages for short papers with poster presentation. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the conference. All papers presented in the conference will be published in the conference proceedings and in the digital library. IMPORTANT DATES Regular and Position Papers - Paper Submission: February 16, 2021 - Authors Notification: April 15, 2021 - Camera Ready and Registration: April 29, 2021 Second call for Position Papers only: - Paper Submission: April 1, 2021 - Authors Notification: May 6, 2021 - Camera Ready and Registration: May 19, 2021 CONFERENCE CHAIR Pierangela Samarati, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy PROGRAM CHAIR Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy PROGRAM COMMITTEE Massimiliano Albanese, George Mason University, United States Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain Peter Amthor, Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany Muhammad Asghar, The University of Auckland, New Zealand Diogo Barradas, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Francesco Buccafurri, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy Ning Cao, WalmartLabs, United States Xiaochun Cheng, Middlesex University, United Kingdom Frederic Cuppens, Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada Nora Cuppens-Boulahia, Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada Roberto Di Pietro, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar Mario Di Raimondo, Università of Catania, Italy Vasiliki Diamantopoulou, University of the Aegean, Greece Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Rovira i Virgili University, Spain Ruggero Donida Labati, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy Mohammed Erradi, ENSIAS, Morocco Alberto Ferrante, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland Josep-Lluis Ferrer-Gomila, Balearic Islands University, Spain Sara Foresti, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy Steven Furnell, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Télécom SudParis, France Angelo Genovese, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy Dimitris Gritzalis, AUEB, Greece Stefanos Gritzalis, University of Piraeus, Greece Jinguang Han, Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom David Megias Jiménez, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain Ghassan Karame, NEC Laboratories, Germany Sokratis Katsikas, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Shinsaku Kiyomoto, KDDI Research, Inc., Japan Albert Levi, Sabanci University, Turkey Kaitai Liang, University of Surrey, UK Jay Ligatti, University of South Florida, United States Giovanni Livraga, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy Yunlong Mao, Nanjing University, China Evangelos Markatos, ICS, Forth, Greece Weizhi Meng, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Alessio Merlo, University of Genoa, Italy Rolf Oppliger, eSECURITY Technologies, Switzerland Stefano Paraboschi, University of Bergamo, Italy Gerardo Pelosi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Günther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Yunior Ramirez Cruz, Université du Luxembourg, Luxembourg Silvio Ranise, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy Andreas Schaad, Wibu, Germany Fabio Scotti, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy Issa Traore, University of Victoria, Canada Corrado Visaggio, Università degli Studi del Sannio, Italy Roopa Vishwanathan, New Mexico State University, United States Cong Wang, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Haining Wang, University of Delaware, United States Lingyu Wang, Concordia University, Canada Jiawei Yuan, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, United States Qiang Zeng, University of South Carolina, United States Shengzhi Zhang, Boston University, Metropolitan College, United States Yongjun Zhao, Nanyang Technology University, Singapore (list not yet complete) For any questions, please contact the conference and program chairs: sabrina.decapitani@unimi.it, pierangela.samarati@unimi.it