International Workshop on Information & Operational Technology (IT & OT) Security Systems
                  
                  (IOSec 2022)
                 
                 
                  to be held in conjunction with the 17th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security
                  
                  (ARES 2022 –
                  
                   http://www.ares-conference.eu
                  
                  )
                 
                 August 23 – August 26, 2022
The recent advancements of ICT have given the opportunity to companies, public administrations and various Critical Infrastructures to offer new and innovative services and at the same time lower their operational costs. These advancements, however, were quickly adopted without proper evaluation of their impact on security, leaving current IT (Information Technology) and OT (Operation Technology) systems vulnerable to various kinds of cyberattacks. Furthermore, cybersecurity protection of IT and/or OT networks, data and storage areas in small and medium enterprises (SMEs) is also problematic since such companies do not have the resources, expertise as well as funds to support and maintain cybersecurity operations in their premises. The International workshop on Information & Operational Technology (IT & OT) security systems 2022 aims to bring together viewpoints from diverse areas to explore the commonalities of security problems and solutions for advancing the collective science and practice of IT and OT security protection as well as promote security awareness and cybersecurity solutions for the SME community.
IOSec is organized by the HEIR, SENTINEL and AI4HealthSec EU-funded projects.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to
                   Security architectures and frameworks for enterprises, SMEs, public administration, or critical infrastructures
                   
                   Threat models for IT and OT systems and communication networks
                   
                   Cyber-threat detection, classification and profiling, Incident management
                   
                   Security training and awareness
                   
                   Risk assessment – safety and security
                   
                   Security validation, testing platforms and developments
                  
                   Hardware security, Cryptographic engineering
                   
                   Intrusion Detection, Intrusion Prevention
                   
                   Secure Software Development, Malicious Code Analysis
                   
                   Digital Forensics
                   
                   Identity and access management
                   
                   Privacy Enabling Technologies
                   
                   Healthcare security
                  
Important Dates
| Submission Deadline |  | 
| Author Notification | June 05, 2022 | 
| Proceedings Version | June 19, 2022 | 
| ARES EU Symposium | August 23, 2022 | 
| Conference | August 23 – August 26, 2022 | 
Program Chair
                  
                   Apostolis Zarras
                  
                  
                  
                   a.zarras@tudelft.nl
                  
                  
                  Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
                 
Program Committee
               Habtamu Abie, Norwegian Computing Center, Norway
               
               Manos Athanatos, Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas, Greece
               
               Dragana Bajovic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
               
               Hervé Debar, Télécom SudParis, Institut Mines-Télécom, France
               
               Apostolos P. Fournaris, Industrial Systems Institute/R.C. ATHENA, Greece
               
               Samuel Fricker, FHNW Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz, Switzerland
               
               George Hatzivasilis, Hellenic Mediterranean University, Greece
               
               Greece Dušan Jakovetić, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
               
               Sotiris Ioannidis, Technical University of Crete, Greece
               
               Lucian Itu, SIEMENS SRL, Germany
               
               Odysseas Koufopavlou, University of Patras, Greece
               
               Kostas Lampropoulos, University of Patras, Greece
               
               Eva Marin, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
               
               Evangelos Markakis, Hellenic Mediterranean University, Greece
               
               Xavi Masip, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
               
               Vasileios Mavroeidis, University of Oslo, Norway
               
               Ciprian Oprisa, Bitdefender/Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
               
               Vassilis Prevelakis, TU Braunschweig, Germany
               
               George Spanoudakis, City University of London, United Kingdom
               
               Christos Tselios, Citrix Systems Inc., United States
               
               Giorgos Vasiliadis, Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas, Greece
              
Submission Instructions
The submission guidelines valid for the workshop are the same as for the ARES conference. They can be found at https://www.ares-conference.eu/conference/submission/ .
KEYNOTE
                   
                    
                      Prof. George Spanoudakis
                    
                    Prof. George Spanoudakis
                   
                   
                   
                    City University London
                   
                  
                   
                    Security for Healthcare Services: Needs, Solutions and Challenges
                   
                   
                   This talk reviews the current state of practice and state of the art in the security of healthcare services. More specifically, it reviews the key security challenges faced by healthcare service providers, the types of security assessments needed, the methods for security risk management, and the landscape of the security solutions available. The latter are reviewed in terms of maturity and the expectations for emerging solutions in the short (1-2 years) and medium-term (3-5 years).
                  
Prof. George Spanoudakis (BSc, MSc, and Ph.D. in Computer Science) is the chairman of the management board of SPHYNX TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS AG and a Professor of Software Engineering at City University London and Director of the Centre of Adaptive Computing Systems (CeNACS). His research interests are in software systems security, software engineering and biomedical computing. In these areas, he has published extensively (more than 175 peer-reviewed publications with more than 4100 citations, and an H-index of 33).
Professor Spanoudakis has more than 20 years of expertise in managing R&D projects and has received more than €120m of R&D funding from national funding bodies, the EU, and directly from the industry. In total, he has been the principal investigator of more than thirty FP6, FP7, and H2020 projects at Sphynx and prior to it at City, University of London. In several of these projects, he has been the scientific and technical coordinator (e.g., CUMULUS, EVOTION, CYBERSURE, BIO-PHOENIX, SMART BEAR). Professor Spanoudakis has been in the program committees of more than 190 international conferences and has chaired several of them including, for example, ENASE 2019, SCC 2018, ENASE 2018, SEKE 2007, and SEKE 2006. He has also been a member of the editorial boards of several international journals .
 
   
    
        
       