[apologies for cross-posting] 22nd International Conference on Information and Communications Security (ICICS 2020) ================================================ Copenhagen, Denmark, 24-27 August 2020 http://icics2020.compute.dtu.dk/ Submission deadline: **3 May 2020 (23:59 AOE - Extended!)** ================================================ The 2020 International Conference on Information and Communications Security will be the 22nd event in the ICICS conference series, started in 1997, that brings together individuals involved in multiple disciplines of Information and Communications Security in order to foster exchange of ideas. There will be Best Paper and Best Student Paper awards with cash reward sponsored by Springer. It will be organized by Technical University of Denmark (DTU). http://icics2020.compute.dtu.dk/ Program Topics: Original papers offering novel research contributions on all aspects of information and communications security are solicited for submission to ICICS 2019. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: Access control Social networks security, privacy and trust Key management and key recovery Software defined networking security Anonymity Embedded systems security Language-based security Security management Applied cryptography Security models, metrics, and policies Malware and anti-malware Fraud and cyber-crime Authentication and authorization Security and privacy of Big Data Mobile computing security and privacy Hardware security Biometrics security Security of critical Infrastructures Network security Identity access management Blockchain security and privacy Trust and reputation systems Cloud and edge computing security Trusted and trustworthy computing technologies Operating systems security Usable security and privacy Computer and digital forensics Insider threat detection Cyber-physical systems security Underground economy Privacy protection Intellectual property protection Data and system integrity Verification of security protocols Privacy-preserving data mining Intrusion detection Database security Web security Risk assessment IoT security and privacy Distributed systems security Wireless security Instructions for Authors: Authors are invited to submit original papers not previously published nor submitted in parallel for publication to any other conference, workshop or journal. All submitted papers must be anonymous, with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, or obvious references. Submissions should be in English, as a PDF file with all fonts embedded, in the Springer-Verlag LNCS format (details can be found at: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0), typeset with 11pt font, and using reasonable spacing and margins. Papers should not exceed 16 pages in LNCS style including the bibliography, but excluding well-marked appendices (no more than 18 pages in total). Note that papers should be intelligible without all appendices, since committee members are not required to read them. Submitted papers may risk being rejected directly without consideration of their merits if they do not follow all the above submission instructions. Accepted papers will be presented at ICICS 2020 and included in the conference's post-proceeding published by Springer in its Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Please note that at least one author of each accepted paper should register with full rate to the conference and give a presentation at the conference. Failure to register or absence from the presentation will eventually make your paper NOT being included in the conference proceedings. Organization: General Chairs - Christian D. Jensen, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark - Jianying Zhou, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore Program Chairs - Dieter Gollmann, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany - Weizhi Meng, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark If there is any question, please contact us at: icics2020-1@easychair.org.