DBSEC 2025: Call for Papers

The 39th Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy (DBSec 2025) will take place from June 23-25, 2025, in Gjøvik, Norway.

The conference brings together researchers, practitioners, and experts from academia, industry, and government to share their cutting-edge findings and insights in all theoretical and practical aspects of data protection, privacy, and applications security.

Topics of Interest

• Access control
• Anonymity
• Applied cryptography in data security
• Authentication
• Big data security
• Data and system integrity
• Data for LLMs, GenAI, ML/DL: data curation, vector databases
• Data protection
• Data provenance
• Database security
• Digital rights management
• Distributed and decentralised security
• Identity management
• Intrusion detection
• Knowledge discovery and privacy
• Methodologies for data and application security
• Network security
• Organisational and social aspects of security
• Ownership, Privacy and licensing issues of data for AI training
• Privacy
• Secure cloud computing
• Secure distributed systems
• Secure information integration
• Security and privacy in crowdsourcing
• Security and privacy in IT outsourcing
• Security and privacy in location-based services
• Security and privacy in P2P scenarios and social networks
• Security and privacy in pervasive/ubiquitous computing
• Security and privacy policies
• Security management and audit
• Security metrics
• Threats, vulnerabilities, and risk management
• Trust and reputation systems
• Trust management
• Web security
• Wireless and mobile security

Paper Submissions

• Page Limits: Submitted papers should be at most 16 pages in the LNCS format excluding bibliography and well-marked appendices, with a maximum of 20 pages in total. Short papers, no longer than 12 pages in all, are also acceptable.
• Anonymity: Submissions are NOT anonymous. Committee members are not required to read the appendices, and therefore the paper should be intelligible without them.
• Format: All submissions must be written in English, and only PDF files will be accepted. A LaTeX source file will be required for the final version of the accepted papers. The final version must be in the format required for publications in the LNCS series.
• Submission Website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dbsec2025
• Plagiarism Policy: A paper submitted to DBSec 2025 cannot be under review for any other conference or journal during the time it is being considered for DBSec 2025. Submitting identical or substantially similar papers to DBSec 2025 and another venue simultaneously will result in rejection without review, and the other venue will be notified.

Publication

Accepted papers will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.

Awards

DBSec 2025 will have best paper and best student paper awards.

Important Dates

• Paper Submission Deadline: March 25, 2025 (AOE)
• Author notification: April 30, 2025 (AOE)
• Final papers due: May 5, 2025 (AOE)

Contact Information

For any questions, please contact the organizers at: sokratis.katsikas@ntnu.no

IFIP WG 11.3 home page: https://spdp.di.unimi.it/~ifip113/