Particular topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Anonymization and privacy in communication systems

• Biometric authentication and identity management

• Computer and network forensics

• Data and application security

• Data protection and integrity

• Availability of communications, survivability of networks in the presence of attacks

• Key management and PKI for networks

• Information-theoretic security

• Intrusion detection and prevention

• Location privacy

• Mobile security

• Outsourcing of network and data communication services

• Physical layer security methods, cross-layer methods for enhancing security

• Secure routing, network management

• Security for critical infrastructures

• Security metrics and performance evaluation

• Security and privacy for big data

• Security and privacy in body area networks

• Security and privacy in content delivery network

• Security and privacy in cloud computing and federated cloud

• Security and privacy in crowdsourcing

• Security and privacy in the Internet of Things

• Security and privacy in multi-hop wireless networks: ad hoc, mesh, sensor, vehicular and RFID networks

• Security and privacy in peer-to-peer networks and overlay networks

• Security and privacy in single-hop wireless networks: Wi-Fi, Wi-Max

• Security and privacy in smart grid, cognitive radio networks, and disruption/delay tolerant networks

• Security and privacy in social networks

• Security and privacy in pervasive and ubiquitous computing

• Social, economic, and policy issues of trust, security, and privacy

• Traffic analysis

• Usable security for networked computer systems

• Vulnerability, exploitation tools, malware, botnet, DDoS attacks

• Web, e-commerce, m-commerce, and e-mail security