The Second International Conference on Cross-Domain Security in Distributed, Intelligent and Critical Systems

CROSS-SEC 2027

March 07, 2027 to March 11, 2027 - Barcelona, Spain

Deadlines

Submission

Nov 16, 2026

Notification

Jan 03, 2027

Registration

Jan 17, 2027

Camera ready

Jan 31, 2027

Deadlines differ for special tracks. Please consult the conference home page for special tracks Call for Papers (if any).

Publication

Published by IARIA Press (operated by Xpert Publishing Services)

Archived in the Open Access IARIA ThinkMind Digital Library

Prints available at Curran Associates, Inc.

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to a IARIA Journal

Indexing Procedure

Affiliated Journals

CROSS-SEC 2027 - The Second International Conference on Cross-Domain Security in Distributed, Intelligent and Critical Systems

March 07, 2027 - March 11, 2027

CROSS-SEC 2027

ISSN:
ISBN: 978-1-68558-493-1

CROSS-SEC 2027 is colocated with the following events as part of ComputationWorld 2027 Congress:

  • SERVICE COMPUTATION 2027, The Nineteenth International Conference on Advanced Service Computing
  • CLOUD COMPUTING 2027, The Eighteenth International Conference on Cloud Computing, GRIDs, and Virtualization
  • FUTURE COMPUTING 2027, The Nineteenth International Conference on Future Computational Technologies and Applications
  • COGNITIVE 2027, The Nineteenth International Conference on Advanced Cognitive Technologies and Applications
  • ADAPTIVE 2027, The Nineteenth International Conference on Adaptive and Self-Adaptive Systems and Applications
  • CONTENT 2027, The Nineteenth International Conference on Creative Content Technologies
  • PATTERNS 2027, The Nineteenth International Conference on Pervasive Patterns and Applications
  • COMPUTATION TOOLS 2027, The Eighteenth International Conference on Computational Logics, Algebras, Programming, Tools, and Benchmarking
  • BUSTECH 2027, The Seventeenth International Conference on Business Intelligence and Technology
  • AIVR 2027, The Fourth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Immersive Virtual Reality
  • CROSS-SEC 2027, The Second International Conference on Cross-Domain Security in Distributed, Intelligent and Critical Systems

CROSS-SEC 2027 General Chair

 

Andreas Aßmuth
Kiel University of Applied Sciences
Germany


   

 

 

Andreas Aßmuth
Kiel University of Applied Sciences
Germany


 

CROSS-SEC 2027 Steering Committee

 

Christoph P. Neumann
Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden
Germany


 

Sebastian Fischer
Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Regensburg
Germany


 

Aspen Olmsted
Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston
USA


 

Steve Chan
Decision Engineering Analysis Laboratory
USA


 

Carla Merkle Westphall
UFSC
Brazil


 

Manmeet Kaur Mahinderjit Singh
University Sains Malaysia
Malaysia


 

Hiroki Kuzuno
Kobe University
Japan


 

Mussa Ally Dida
Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology
Tanzania


 

Fred Kaggwa
Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST)
Uganda


     
 

Christoph P. Neumann
Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden
Germany


 

Sebastian Fischer
Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Regensburg
Germany


 

Aspen Olmsted
Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston
USA


 

Steve Chan
Decision Engineering Analysis Laboratory
USA


 

Carla Merkle Westphall
UFSC
Brazil


 

Manmeet Kaur Mahinderjit Singh
University Sains Malaysia
Malaysia


 

Hiroki Kuzuno
Kobe University
Japan


 

Mussa Ally Dida
Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology
Tanzania


 

Fred Kaggwa
Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST)
Uganda


 

CROSS-SEC 2027 conference tracks:

Security Foundations and Architectures

  • Trust frameworks, access control, and zero-trust models
  • Governance, compliance, and security management
  • Secure design for distributed systems
  • Security in virtualised, containerised, or Cloud-native environments
  • Identity and access across hybrid/multi-clouds
  • Monitoring and observability for threat detection

Database Security

  • Secure architectures for relational and non-relational databases
  • Access control, encryption, and key management, Multitenant scenarios
  • Threats and defenses against injection, inference, and data leakage
  • Privacy, compliance, and secure data lifecycle management

IoT, OT, and Critical Infrastructure Security

  • Security for edge, fog, and hybrid architectures
  • Security for IIoT, smart home, and smart grid protection
  • Firmware updates, device onboarding, and identity provisioning
  • Threats and countermeasures in critical infrastructure systems
  • Forensics in constrained environments
  • Future-proof crypto life-cycle in long-lived devices

Artificial Intelligence and Security

  • AI for threat and anomaly detection
  • Attacks on AI: adversarial, poisoning, model theft
  • Robust and trustworthy AI systems
  • Privacy-preserving machine learning

Cryptographic and Privacy-Enhancing Technologies

  • Post-quantum cryptography and migration
  • Homomorphic encryption, secure multiparty computation
  • Scalable identity and key management
  • Blockchain or distributed ledgers for integrity and coordination
  • Crypto-agility by design and secure reconfiguration

Application Domains and Human Factors

  • Cybercrime analysed via culture, linguistics, history, and ethics
  • Security in health, energy, mobility, public sector
  • Usability and awareness in secure systems

Deadlines:

Submission

Nov 16, 2026

Notification

Jan 03, 2027

Registration

Jan 17, 2027

Camera ready

Jan 31, 2027

Deadlines differ for special tracks. Please consult the conference home page for special tracks Call for Papers (if any).

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