Call for Papers

The Australasian Information Security Conference (AISC 2025) will be held on February 13, 2025, as part of the Australasian Computer Science Week (ACSW 2025). AISC aims to promote research on all aspects of cyber security, digital forensics, and cryptography, and to foster communication between academic and industrial researchers. The conference welcomes contributions from computer scientists, researchers, educators, students, technicians, practitioners, and industry globally.

Areas of Interest

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Provable security for asymmetric cryptography
• Provable security for symmetric cryptography
• Provable security for physical attacks
• Privacy and anonymity technologies
• Secure cryptographic protocols and applications
• Security notions, approaches, and paradigms
• Leakage-resilient cryptography
• Lattice-based cryptography and post-quantum cryptography
• Steganography and steganalysis
• Blockchain and cryptocurrency
• IoT security
• Cloud security
• Access control
• Privacy-enhancing technologies
• Database security
• Big data security and privacy
• Biometric security
• Network security
• Formal methods for security
• Embedded systems security
• Lightweight security
• Cyber-physical security
• ML security

Instructions for Authors

• Author instructions and LaTeX/Word templates for ACM publications can be found at: https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template.
• Papers should be submitted via Easychair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acsw2025.
• All submissions must be original, unpublished, and not under review by another conference or journal.
• Submissions must be fully anonymous (no author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, or obvious self-references).
• Papers must be written in English.
• Submissions must have at most 20 pages including bibliography, using the ACM package without changes to the style. Content beyond 20 pages may be placed in an Appendix, but papers should be self-contained without appendices for PC members.

New OA Publishing Model for ICPS

Under the new model, all ICPS papers published in the Digital Library (DL) will automatically be made Open Access (OA).

• No charge applies if the corresponding author is affiliated with an institution participating in ACM’s transformative ACM Open model.
• No charge applies if the author's institution is located in a country covered by ACM’s agreements with EIFL and Research4Life or classified by the World Bank as low-income.

Important Dates

• Paper Submission: November 6, 2024 / November 15, 2024
• Notification: December 26, 2024
• Camera-ready: January 10, 2025
• Conference Date: February 13, 2025