Systems Security, Safety and Sustainability Cyber Infrastructure protection

• Internet of Things

• Security and Systems assurance Frameworks

• Safety & Security in System of Systems

• Intelligent sensors for identity management

• Trusted Systems and Devices

• Geo-information and Geo-spatial Intelligence security systems (GIS)

• Data and Telecommunication Networks security

• Biometric Recognition systems and Biometry information exchange security

• Networks Privacy Security

• Memory Management and digital rights management units

• Safety and Security Evaluation, Assessment and Certification

• Modelling Approaches and Frameworks

• Natural and physical resources security, protection of forest areas and management of large scale fire and events

The future of digital forensics

• Cloud forensics

• Computer forensics and anti-forensics

• Mobile and handheld devices forensics

• Chain of Custody, recovery, storage and preservation

• Tools and applications

• Incident response and investigation

• Standards and procedures

• Steganography

• E-discovery and data analysis

• Network traffic analysis

• Case studies and best practices

Information Systems security management

• Information systems

• Information security management systems

• Risk Management

• Cyber risk management

• Cyber resilience

• Safety, reliability and risk analysis

• Strategic approaches to security

• Fraud management

• IT Audit, Governance and Security

• Compliance and certification

• Risk assessment, methodologies and tools

• Social media control, risk and governance

Cyber law and cyber arbitration

• Legal and ethical aspects of digital forensics

• Privacy (e.g. mail monitoring, location and mobility management, Web 2.0)

• Data Protection

• Confidentiality

• e-Identification (e.g. Evolving EU legal framework, identity related rights)

• Legal issues related to cloud computing

• Jurisdiction (e.g. Cyberspace)

• Electronic Commerce and virtual entities

• Intellectual Property rights (e.g. copyright, trademarks)

• Cyber crime

Secure Software Engineering

• Security and Privacy design in traditional and cloud-based systems

• Security and Privacy architecture and design for software and systems

• Methods and models for Security and Privacy

• Support tools for modelling Security and Privacy

• Methods and tools for modelling Trust

• Security and Privacy methods and tools for cloud forensics

• Methods for security reengineering

• Case studies in modelling secure and privacy-oriented Information Systems in cloud environments

• Privacy Enhancing Technologies for the realization of trustworthy Information Systems

• Human aspects in Security and Privacy

• Security and Privacy Adaptation

Cyber Intelligence and operation

• Cyber-crime detection and prevention

• Cyber-criminology, Criminal data mining and threat Analysis and prediction

• Crime information intelligence network

• Cyber threat intelligence

• Cyber War

• Open source intelligence

• Law Enforcement Agencies

• Social media

• Attack pattern recognition

• Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) support systems

• Cloud Computing Security

• Enterprise Architecture Security

• Security in Mobile Operating Environments

• Enterprise Architecture Security

• Mass interception communication solutions

• Content Digitisation security and Mass Data Storage Banks protection

• Counterintelligence Management

Remote system intelligence and counter measures

• Access controls

• Detection and remediation of security breaches

• Business continuity planning

• Disaster recovery planning

• Black hat, White hat and grey hat hacking

• Honeypots

• Rootkits

• Vulnerability assessments – lessons learned, Current operating system vulnerabilities and loopholes.

• War driving

• Wi-Fi vulnerabilities

• The past, present and future of computer hacking

• Technical measures for self-protection

• Investigative/ mitigate methods and techniques to apprehend an offender

• Computer forensic tools (types) used in investigating a crime scene, Data analysis and root cause

• Forensics and assistance of hacked environment, tools (types) used in investigating a crime scene, Data analysis and root cause

• Technical methods in collecting volatile and non- volatile information.

• Legislation and evidence for prosecution

Cyber security education, training and awareness development

• Skills to participate in a 21st century economy

• Cybersecurity education and training development

• Digital forensics Training and education

• Certification

• Cybersecurity Workforce Framework and implementations

• Partnership function between academia, private sector training organisations and the governments

• Cybersecrity awareness

• Cyber security, resources programme and resources for schools

• Improving cyberspace security through International partnership