Solicited papers

C&ESAR solicits submissions on any subject related to cybersecurity. The scope covers:

• all lifecycle steps and activities, from system requirement elicitation to disposal/retirement of equipment and systems, including for example law and regulation, DevSecOps loops, operational cyber defense, penetration testing, or misinformation;
• all types of products or context, including for example networks, embedded systems, industrial systems, personal devices, IoT, cloud or edge computing.

C&ESAR solicits the following types of papers:

• Regular paper: 10 to 16 pages paper describing work by the authors not yet published;
• Short paper: 5 to 9 pages paper describing work by the authors not yet published;
• Systematization of Knowledge (SoK) paper: 10 to 16 pages paper that “evaluate, systematize, and contextualize existing knowledge” (a description of SoK papers can be found at https://www.jsys.org/type_SoK/; examples of SoK papers can be found at https://oaklandsok.github.io/);
• Replication paper: 5 to 16 pages paper replicating, questioning and clarifying important work done by others and already published;
• Extended abstract: 2 to 16 pages abstract of a large audience didactic paper recently published (by the same authors or a superset of them) in a peer-reviewed journal or conference proceedings (papers of interest include in particular: states of the art or practice, surveys, experience reports, and directly applicable solutions to common problems).
• Practice paper (practice paper): 2 to 16 pages didactic paper related to cybersecurity practice of special interest for C&ESAR’s audience (the scope covers any topic from engineering work to legal issues, and social or geopolitical studies).