IEEE CNS 2025 is scheduled in the vibrant city of Avignon, France. Avignon is full of history and full of life. In the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Capital of the Vaucluse and the Côtes du Rhône, seat of the popes and city of art and culture, theatre, cinema and museums.

The IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS) is a premier forum for cybersecurity researchers, engineers, practitioners, and policymakers to exchange ideas, techniques, and tools related to all practical and theoretical aspects of communications and network security. The conference seeks submissions from academia, industry, and government presenting novel research results in communications and network security.

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

    Machine learning security
    AI and LLM security and privacy
    Anonymity and privacy technologies
    Censorship countermeasures and privacy
    Combating cybercrime (anti-spam, anti-phishing, anti-fraud techniques, etc.)
    Computer and network forensics
    Cyber deterrence strategies
    Game-theoretic security technologies
    Implementation and evaluation of networked security systems
    Information-theoretic security
    Intrusion detection, prevention, and response
    Key management, public key infrastructures, certification, revocation, and authentication
    Malware detection and mitigation
    Security metrics and models
    Physical-layer and cross-layer security technologies
    Security and privacy for big data
    Security and privacy for mobile and wearable devices
    Security and privacy in cellular networks
    Security and privacy in cloud and edge computing
    Security in 5G/6G Wireless Systems
    Internet Security: protocols, standards, measurements
    Security and privacy in crowdsourcing
    Security and privacy in cyber-physical systems
    Security and privacy in emerging wireless technologies and applications (dynamic spectrum sharing, cognitive radio networks, millimeter wave communications, MIMO systems, smart/connected vehicles, UAS, etc.)
    Security and privacy in peer-to-peer and overlay networks
    Security and privacy in WiFi, ad hoc, mesh, sensor, vehicular, body-area, disruption/delay tolerant, and social networks.
    Security and privacy in smart cities, smart and connected health, IoT, and RFID systems
    Security for future Internet architectures and designs
    Security for software-defined and data center networks
    Security in machine learning
    Social, economic, and policy issues of trust, security, and privacy
    Blockchain and its applications
    Security in Web 3.0
    Traffic analysis
    Usable security and privacy
    Web, e-commerce, m-commerce, and e-mail security