Dear Colleagues,

Security and privacy for software and networks is one of the most important factors in the private/public/defense domain. A shift in user awareness is required, especially with the development of information protection technologies that are critical to dealing with sensitive information in an organization. This means that various information security issues have emerged in recent years due to the development of technologies in software and networks. Similarly, as the demand for ICT services increases, the importance of security, privacy, and risk is always growing. Moreover, we should seriously consider various information security issues, such as system security, network security, software security, device security, physical security, and communication security. Additionally, we need more robust step-by-step countermeasures against these traditional security and privacy concerns.

Therefore, we solicit previously unpublished or modified papers offering meaningful research contributions on any aspect of security or privacy. Your papers may present advances in the theory, design, implementation or analysis of the attack, defense, protection, response and vulnerability, verification, or empirical evaluation and measurement, of secure systems.

Topics include but are not limited to the following:

• Access control, authorization and authentication;
• Application, network, system, web, software, hardware, IoT and cloud security;
• Attacks and defenses;
• Intrusion detection and prevention
• Privacy technologies and mechanisms;
• Digital, network, malware, system forensics;
• Secure information flow;
• Security and privacy for the Internet of Things;
• Security and privacy metrics;
• Security and privacy policies;
• Security architectures;
• Moving target defense;
• Cyber deception and decoy techniques;
• Malware and unwanted software;
• Machine learning and AI security;
• Protocol security;
• Economics of security and privacy;
• Blockchains and distributed ledger security;
• Cyber physical systems and critical infrastructure security for the private/public/military domain;
• Risk modeling, business process modeling, and analytics for the private/public/military domain.

Prof. Dohoon Kim
Prof. Youn Kyu Lee
Guest Editors

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