CALL FOR PAPERS

The Italian Conference on CyberSecurity (ITASEC) is an annual event started in 2017 and supported and organized by the CINI Cybersecurity National Lab. Like in 2025 and 2026, the 2027 edition of ITASEC will be jointly organized with the SERICS Foundation.

The Joint National Conference on Cybersecurity (ITASEC27) will take place in Siena from February 8 to February 12, 2027. The venue will be the Santa Maria della Scala Museum, Piazza del Duomo, Siena.

ITASEC27 will be a forum to meet, discuss, and exchange experiences among people from academia and industry, the public sector, and the private sector who are interested in cybersecurity and its applications.

IMPORTANT DATES 

All deadlines are 11:59 PM Anywhere on Earth.

  • October 16th, 2026: Deadline for Paper submission
  • December 22nd, 2026: Author notification
  • January 22nd, 2027: Camera-ready deadline
  • February 8th-12th, 2027: Conference

PAPER SUBMISSION

Three types of submissions are solicited:

  • Original, unpublished contributions that may be included in an open-access postproceedings volume published by CEUR-WS.org within the CEUR Workshop

Proceedings series, indexed by both Scopus and DBLP (track “Call for Papers – Unpublished – Proceedings”);

  • Preliminary work that will not be included in the post-proceedings volume (track “Call for Papers – Unpublished – No Proceedings”).
  • Recently published work that will not be included in the post-proceedings volume (track “Call for Papers – Published Work”).

Authors are requested to select the corresponding track on the submission page, available at the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=itasec27

By submitting a paper in the proceeding track, authors confirm that their contribution complies with the CEUR-WS.org requirements for publication, as outlined in the “Author and editor rights” section of the CEUR-WS.org website.

Submissions are single-blind and may indicate the names and affiliations of the authors. Authors of works of particular interest and quality will be invited to submit an extension of their contributions to dedicated Special Issues of indexed journals.

Any paper related to cybersecurity is welcome. Topics of interest encompass all areas of cybersecurity, including (but not limited to) the following research domains.

  • AI & Machine Learning Security
  • Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology
  • Cloud & Virtualized Infrastructure Security
  • Communication Security & Privacy
  • Critical Infrastructure Security
  • Cryptography & Formal Methods
  • Data Security & Privacy
  • Disinformation & Deepfakes
  • Domain-Specific Security
  • Governance, Legal & Compliance
  • Hardware, Device & OS Security
  • Human Factors & Cyber Education
  • Identity & Access Management
  • IoT & Smart Infrastructure Security
  • Secure Software Engineering
  • Security Operations, Risk & Incident Management

The topic list is not exhaustive; papers addressing any aspect of digital security and privacy are welcome. (Although papers without a clear application to cybersecurity will be considered out of scope.)

Papers Formatting

Previously unpublished papers (to appear or not in the proceedings): Papers must be formatted in PDF according to the CEURART template (1-column layout) and not longer than 16 pages, excluding bibliography and well-marked appendices (up to 4 pages).

 

The template package, available at this link, includes both ODT and LaTeX versions. For LaTeX users, the primary file to edit is sample-1col.tex. Authors familiar with LaTeX are strongly encouraged to use the LaTeX template, either locally or via Overleaf.

Inclusion in the conference proceedings requires all accepted papers to be written in English.

Failure to comply with the above requirements may result in rejection without review.

Previously published papers: Papers can be submitted in their originally published form, without the need for re-editing.

AI Policy and Plagiarism

Previously unpublished papers must not contain or reproduce previously published content without the proper references. Papers that are suspected of plagiarism will be desk-rejected without further evaluation.

 

Although we recognize the role of AI and LLMs as aids for paper writing, using them to write large parts of papers or to manage references is strongly discouraged. Papers with incoherent or made-up references will be desk-rejected. In any case, papers submitted for publication in the proceedings must comply with the “CEUR–WS Policy on AI–Assisting Tools”.