The papers listed below have been selected as "Best Papers" based on the reviews of the original submission, the camera-ready version, and the presentation during the conference. For the awarded papers, a digital award will be issued in the name of the authors. The authors of these papers are also receiving invitations to submit an extended article version to one of the IARIA Journals.

Awarded Papers (also Invited for IARIA Journals)

An AI-based Cognitive Architecture for Augmenting Cybersecurity Analysts
Salvatore Vella, Moussa Noun, Salah Sharieh, Alex Ferworn

Fingerprinting and Tracing Shadows: The Development and Impact of Browser Fingerprinting on Digital Privacy
Alexander Lawall

Vehicle Security Operations Center for Cooperative, Connected and Automated Mobility
Kevin Mayer, Tina Volkersdorfer, Jenny Hofbauer, Patrizia Heinl, Hans-Joachim Hof

Device Onboarding Transparency – Supporting Initial Trust Establishment
Steffen Fries, Rainer Falk

Enhanced Arbiter PUF Construction Model to Strengthening PUF-based Authentication
Rizka Reza Pahlevi, Hirokazu Hasegawa, Yukiko Yamaguchi, Hajime Shimada

Evaluating Performance Characteristics of Threshold Fully Homomorphic Encryption for Distributed Analytics Scenarios
Svetlana Boudko, Kristian Teig Grønvold

Security-risk-mitigation Measures for Automotive Remote Diagnostic System
Masaaki Miyashita, Hiroki Takakura

Information Hiding Detection in Industrial Control Systems - Statistical Analysis in Modbus TCP/IP
Robert Altschaffel, Jana Dittmann, Lennox Lingk

The following papers have been selected on the basis of their contents, specificaly for lending themselves to an interesting extended work. The authors of these papers are receiving invitations to submit an extended article version to one of the IARIA Journals.

Papers Invited for IARIA Journals

Fast Charging Communication and Cybersecurity: A Technology Review
Jakob Löw, Kevin Mayer, Hans-Joachim Hof

Theoretical and Practical Aspects in Identifying Gaps and Preparing for Post-Quantum Cryptography
Jörn-Marc Schmidt, Alexander Lawall

Towards a Stakeholder-Centric Trust Management Approach for the Automotive Ecosystem
Marco Michl, Hans-Joachim Hof

Addressing Malware Family Concept Drift with Triplet Autoencoder
Numan Halit Guldemir, Oluwafemi Olukoya, Jesús Martínez-del-Rincón

KAN vs KAN: Examining Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KAN) Performance under Adversarial Attacks
Nebojsa Djosic, Evgenii Ostanin, Fatima Hussain, Salah Sharieh, Alexander Ferworn

An Analysis Framework for Steganographic Network Data in Industrial Control Systems
Tom Neubert, Bjarne Peuker, Eric Schueler, Henning Ullrich, Laura Buxhoidt, Claus Vielhauer

Blue Team Fundamentals: Roles and Tools in a Security Operations Center
Jenny Hofbauer, Kevin Mayer

Enhancing Phishing Detection: An Eye-Tracking Study on User Interaction and Oversights in Phishing Emails
Meret Kristen, Fabian Engl, Jürgen Mottok

SEC-AIRSPACE: Addressing Cyber Security Challenges in Future Air Traffic Management
Karin Bernsmed, Per Håkon Meland, Tim Stelkens-Kobsch, Alessandra Tedeschi, Carlo Dambra, Irene Buselli, Enrico Frumento, Davide Martintoni, Valerio Senni, Andrei Gurtov, Gurjot Singh Gaba, Alejandro Sastre García, Supathida Boonsong

A Comparative Study of Backbone Architectures for Language Model-Based Intrusion Detection
Benedikt Pletzer, Jürgen Mottok

Forensic Analysis of GAN Training and Generation: Output Artifacts Assessment of Circles and Lines
Stefan Seidlitz, Jana Dittmann

Merging Digital Twins and Multi-Agent Systems Approaches for Security Monitoring
Zoe Lagache, Annabelle Mercier, Oum-El-Kheir Aktouf, Arthur Baudet