Scope

The existing computing models and computing environments have changed immensely due to the rapid advancements in ICT. In the last ten years, we have witnessed the emergence and the rise of new paradigms or technologies such as cloud/fog computing, Big Data, Internet-of-things, and blockchain. As a result, the computing environment nowadays is more distributed, heterogeneous, virtualized, and data rich. Numerous challenges arise from the changes, including the lack of trust, ubiquitous but constrained devices, mass security breaches, new privacy threats, and ever-evolving attack techniques. Quite often we are in an awkward situation where traditional security techniques can no longer offer adequate protection in these new computing environments. It is easy to say that without properly the security and privacy problems, the benefits of the new technologies cannot be realized. Thus, we call for efforts to investigate the security and privacy issues of the above-mentioned new environments within the cyberspace, and propose new ideas for addressing them.

Topics

We seek novel, innovative, and exciting work in areas including but not limited to:

Theory and Application of Cryptology
Data privacy
Secure Cloud Storage
Secure and Outsourcing Computation
Access Control and Authentication in New Computing Environments
New Cryptographic Techniques for New Computing Environments
Mobile Cloud Computing Security
Secure Cloud Model and Architecture
Software and data segregation security
Management of virtualized resources
Failure detection and prediction
Remote Data Deduplication
Intelligent Computation Security
Security in IoT
Security in Big Data
Privacy in Big Data
BlockChain
Cyber security

Publication

Conference proceedings will be submitted for publication by Springer and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library.

Proceedings will be submitted for inclusion in leading indexing services, Ei Compendex, ISI Web of Science, Scopus, CrossRef, Google Scholar, DBLP, as well as EAI’s own EU Digital Library (EUDL).

Authors of selected best accepted and presented papers will be invited to submit an extended version to