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)

A Note on the Post-Quantum Security of Identity-Based Encryption on Isogenous Pairing Groups
Malte Andersch, Cezary Pilaszewicz, Marian Margraf

End-to-End Security of Smart Meter Infrastructure–Based Control Chains: A STRIDE Analysis of Residual Risks Beyond the Smart Meter Gateway
Julian Britz, Julian Maximilian Behrensen, Sascha Kaven, Felix Scholl, Kolja Eger, Milena Zachow, Volker Skwarek

An Agentic GraphRAG Architecture for Organization-Aware Cyber Threat Intelligence 
Philipp Fuxen, Rudolf Hackenberg

Introducing the Cyber-Physical Data Flow Diagram to Improve Threat Modelling of Internet of Things Devices
Simon Liebl, Ian Ferguson, Andreas Aßmuth, Natalie Coull, George R. S. Weir

From Network Traffic to Data Space: Design, Validation, and Multi-Model Benchmarking
Julian Graf, Murad Hachani, Christoph Moser, Sebastian Fischer, Rudolf Hackenberg

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

Towards Unsupervised Adversarial Document Detection in Retrieval Augmented Generation Systems
Patrick Levi

Secure-by-Design Prototyping of an IoT Access-Control System
Oliver Vainikko, Ulrich Norbisrath, Ruben Jubeh

Agentic AI Systems as a New Class of Cybersecurity Actors: Translating Human Behavioral Concepts to Artificial Intelligence
Klaas Ole Kürtz, Kiel University of Applied Sciences, Germany

A Smart-Contract–Based Validation Framework for Secure and Auditable Federated Learning in Dementia
Elif Calik, Ayse Keles, Malika Bendechache

SoK: Toward Protecting Internet-Accessible Legacy Systems
William Yurcik, Gregory Koenig, Gregory Pluta, Gianni Pezzarossi, Stuart Turner, Fabio Roberto de Miranda, Luciano Pereira Soares

A Meta-Analysis of the Effectiveness of Deep Learning Algorithms, Generative AI, and Agentic AI in Forecasting School Cyberattacks
Thushan Amarasinghege, Kalpdrum Passi

A Multi Method Framework for GNSS Anomaly Detection in Vehicular Systems Using NMEA Data
Mathias Gerstner, Tobias Reichel, Sebastian Fischer, Rudolf Hackenberg

An Analysis of Attack Vectors Against FIDO2 Authentication
Alexander Berladskyy, Andreas Aßmuth

Secure-by-Design Prototyping of an IoT Access-Control System
Oliver Vainikko, Ulrich Norbisrath, Ruben Jubeh

Closing the Temporal Gap: A Deterministic Simulation Framework for Physics-Aware Automotive Intrusion Detection
Liron Ahmeti, Klara Dolos, Conrad Meyer, Andreas Attenberger, Sebastian Fischer, Rudolf Hackenberg