The IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS) is a premier forum for cybersecurity researchers, engineers, practitioners, and policy makers 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:

    Anonymity and privacy technologies
    Biometric authentication and identity management
    Cyber crimes, forensics, and defenses
    Data security
    Game-theoretic and information-theoretic security technologies
    Implementation and evaluation of networked security systems
    Intrusion detection, prevention, and response
    Key management, public key infrastructures, certification revocation, authentication, and access control
    Software and language-based security
    Security metrics and models
    Physical-layer and cross-layer security technologies
    Machine learning security
    Security in Internet of Things, cyber-physical systems, and critical infrastructures (smart grids, transportation systems, etc.)
    Security in wireless, cellular, ad hoc, mesh, sensor networks and technologies
    Security for mobile and wearable devices
    Security of blockchain and its applications
    Security in cloud and edge computing, crowdsourcing, peer-to-peer and overlay networks
    Security for future Internet architectures and designs
    Security for software-defined and data center networks
    Security in autonomous vehicles, UAVs/UAS, drones, etc.
    Security of social networks, metaverse/virtual/augmented reality-based networks/systems
    Social, economic, and policy issues of trust, security, and privacy
    Traffic analysis
    Usable security and privacy
    Web security

Accepted and presented technical papers will be published in the 2023 IEEE CNS Proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore® as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases. See the website for detailed instructions and submission rules and regulations and for author requirements for accepted papers.