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Important dates:

April 8, 2024:
Extended Deadline for submission of papers

May 24, 2024:
Notification of paper acceptance

June 10, 2024:
Deadline for camera-ready paper submission and author registration

Call for Papers

It is commonly acknowledged that security requirements cannot be addressed by technical means alone, and that a significant aspect of protection comes down to the attitudes, awareness, behaviour and capabilities of the people involved. Indeed, people can potentially represent a key asset in achieving security, but at present, factors such as lack of awareness and understanding, combined with unreasonable demands from security technologies, can dramatically impede their ability to do so. Ensuring appropriate attention and support for the needs of users should therefore be seen as a vital element of a successful security strategy.

People at all levels (i.e. from organisations to domestic environments; from system administrators to end-users) need to understand security concepts, how the issues may apply to them, and how to use the available technology to protect their systems. In addition, the technology itself can make a contribution by reducing the demands upon users, simplifying protection measures, and automating a variety of safeguards.

With the above in mind, this symposium specifically addresses information security issues that relate to people. It concerns the methods that inform and guide users' understanding of security, and the technologies that can benefit and support them in achieving protection.

Themes

The symposium welcomes papers addressing research and case studies in relation to any aspect of information security that pertains to the attitudes, perceptions and behaviour of people, and how human characteristics or technologies may be positively modified to improve the level of protection. Indicative themes include:

Paper Submission, review and publication

Authors are invited to submit full papers, not exceeding 14 pages (including all figures, tables and references) by 8 April 2024.

Authors should consult Springer’s authors’ guidelines and use their proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or for Word, for the preparation of their papers. In addition, the corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a Copyright form. The corresponding author signing the copyright form should match the corresponding author marked on the paper. Once the files have been sent to Springer, changes relating to the authorship of the papers cannot be made.

Papers can be submitted to the conference paper management system here. All papers will be double-blind reviewed by at least three members of the Programme Committee. All accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings. Selected papers will be considered for publication in the main sponsoring journal, Information & Computer Security.


Important Dates


8 April 2024

Deadline for submission of papers


24 May 2024 Notification of paper acceptance

10 June 2024 Deadline for camera-ready paper submission

10 June 2024 Deadline for author registration