Workshop on Cyber Security and Blockchain

The Cybersecurity and Blockchain Workshop will be held in conjunction with the annual COMSNETS conference on January 07, 2021. This workshop is intended to be a forum where researchers can meet and discuss the latest in cybersecurity topics as they apply to communications systems and identify new applications, technologies and theories for blockchain. Security researchers and professionals from government, industry and academia are invited to propose and present original work in the following topics (or related areas):

• Authentication, authorization and accounting
• Information Security protocols and architectures
• Security in social networks
• Security in parallel and distributed systems
• Security in wired, mobile and wireless communications
• Network Intrusion Detection and Prevention, Firewalls, Packet Filters
• Security in grid/cloud/pervasive computing
• Public Key Infrastructures, Key Management, Credential Management
• Security and Privacy polices
• Network and Internet Forensics Techniques
• Secure Routing and Security Management
• Application security, Malware, viruses, botnets, etc.
• Embedded system security
• Security & privacy for e-commerce/m-commerce
• Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies
• Proof-of-work and consensus algorithms for blockchains
• Decentralization, scalability, and security tradeoff
• Simulation and performance evaluation techniques
• Secure smart contract and chain code

Researchers are invited to submit papers based on original work in these and other topics related to cybersecurity and blockchain technology.

Submission Guidelines

• Submissions must be no greater than 4 pages in length including all figures, tables, and references and must be a PDF file. A minimum number of 3 pages are required.
• Reviews will be single-blind: authors name and affiliation should be included in the submission.
• Submissions must follow the formatting guidelines as given on IEEE Website.
• All workshop papers (full papers - both regular and invited) will appear in conference proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases.
• All papers must be in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) and submitted through the WACI Workshop submission site on EDAS.

Papers can be submitted through EDAS : Click Here

Important Deadlines

Cyril Onwubiko

Research Series Limited, UK

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Dr. Cyril Onwubiko is Director, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain & Cyber Security at Research Series Limited, where he directs strategy and governance in AI, Blockchain & Cyber Security. Prior to Research Series, he had worked in the Financial Services, Telecommunication, Health, Government and Public Services Sectors. He is a leading scholar in Cyber Situational Awareness (CyberSA), Cyber Security, Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), Data Fusion, and Cyber Security Operations Centres (SOCs); and vastly knowledgeable in Information Assurance, HMG Security Policy Framework and Risk Assessment & Management. His work in AI, especially Machine Learning for Cyber Security demonstrates an ability to converge multiple applications of AI across business units (in many domains e.g. NLP, Deep Learning, Machine Learning and Data Science etc.), and applying these models to solve real world problems.

He holds a PhD in Computer Network Security from Kingston University, London, UK; MSc in Internet Engineering, and BSc, first class honours, in Computer Science & Mathematics. His research interests are in the areas of Cyber Security, Situational Awareness, Cyber-Threat Intelligence, Security Operations Centre, Blockchain & AI. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, currently, the Secretary, IEEE United Kingdom and Ireland, Founding Chair, IEEE United Kingdom and Ireland Blockchain Group. He is a member of many IEEE Societies and Affinity Groups e.g. Computer Society, Young Professionals, etc. He is also a Trustee, Director and Volunteer to other Charity organisations.

In the summer of 2014, Cyril founded the Centre for Multidisciplinary Research, Innovation and Collaboration (C-MRiC), a not for profit and nongovernmental organisation dedicated to the advancement of outstanding research and innovation through collaboration, and dissemination of scientific and industrial contributions through seminars and publications (https://www.c-mric.com).

Aunshul Rege

Temple University, USA

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Dr. Aunshul Rege is an Associate Professor with the Department of Criminal Justice. She is the Director of the CARE (Cybersecurity in Application, Research, and Education) Lab, which focuses on the human and social aspects of cyberattacks and cybersecurity. Dr. Rege is the recipient of numerous National Science Foundation grants, including the prestigious NSF CAREER award. Her research examines adversarial decision-making, adaptation and movement, and she has worked with Computer Scientists and Engineers in academia, industry and government. Dr. Rege and her team at the CARE Lab have generated a critical infrastructure ransomware incident dataset, which maps to the MITRE ATT&CK framework and is highly requested by organizations, governments, academics, and students from all over the world. Dr. Rege is also passionate about cybersecurity education and has designed several experiential social engineering learning projects, which have been mapped to the NICE cybersecurity workforce framework and downloaded worldwide by educators and businesses. A month ago, she hosted a purely social engineering capture the flag competition at Temple University, which featured professional social engineers as judges and six undergraduate student teams. This competition is the first cybersecurity capture-the-flag competition to emphasize the human factor that is grounded in the social sciences. Dr. Rege has received a new NSF education grant, which will allow her to pursue this endeavor starting 2021. Not only has Dr. Rege's work been published in well-regarded journals and peer-reviewed conference proceedings, but her efforts have also been recognized in highly regarded cybersecurity outlets like Security Week, Bleeping Computer, and Dark Reading. She hopes to continue to make the social sciences more mainstream and embedded in the cybersecurity discourse. Link to Prof. Rege's Lab: CARE (Cybersecurity in Application, Research, and Education).

Tulika Pandey

MEITY, GoI, India

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Workshop Schedule

January 5, 2021

January 6, 2021

Program Committee:

• Miroslav Bures, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic

• Mohamed Farah, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom

• Hanan Hindy, Abertay University, United Kingdom

• Amar Seeam, Middlesex University Mauritius, Mauritius

• Elochukwu Ukwandu, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom

Workshop Co-Chairs

Giridhar Mandyam

Qualcomm, USA

Prashant Pillai

University of Wolverhampton, UK

TPC Chair

Xavier Bellekens

University of Strathclyde, UK