An interdisciplinary approach is critical to mitigating the cybersecurity, privacy and online safety threats that keep emerging alongside new technology development, where application of state-of-the-art protection measures is not straightforward – because of the heterogeneity and large scale computer systems and networks, AI integration in all aspect of digital life and big data challenges, socio-technical complexity and societal implications, as well as the intrinsic difficulties of building security-, privacy- and safety-enhancing systems at scale.

The purpose of this special issue, entitled Interdisciplinary Perspectives for SocioTechnical Cybersecurity Threats, is to publish high quality papers as well as review articles that report original research that highlight challenges, as well as draw on interdisciplinary perspectives to address socio-technical cybersecurity, privacy and online safety threats. The special issue will include selected papers from the European Interdisciplinary Cybersecurity Conference (EICC) 2024 and papers accepted through an open call. Topics include but are not limited to the scope of EICC 2024:

• Cybersecurity and cyber resilience
• Cyber insurance
• Digital privacy
• Digital currency, blockchains and cybercrime
• Law, investigation, internet jurisdiction and ethics
• Child safety in the cyberspace
• Cyber forensics
• Surveillance, interception, blocking and sovereignty
• Cyber warfare
• Network security
• Critical infrastructure security
• Embedded systems security
• Business continuity and disaster recovery
• Information security governance
• Security management
• Cloud security
• Internet of things security
• Big data and cybersecurity
• Healthcare information security
• Software development security
• Cyber-physical systems security
• Adversarial machine learning
• Trust management

We solicit submissions of original research papers for the “Interdisciplinary Perspectives for Socio-Technical Cybersecurity Threats” special issue of the International Journal of Information Security across two categories (1) full papers accepted in the main track of EICC 2024 and full papers developed from the short papers accepted for the special sessions of EICC 2024; (2) and open submissions. Submissions will be evaluated based on their relevance to the call and their combined potential to offer an interdisciplinary perspective in providing new pathways and critical research to address emerging socio-technical cybersecurity, privacy and online safety threats.

Key dates (all 23:59 AoE):

• Extended deadline: 15th September
• Notification to authors: 30th November
• Final papers due: 30th December

Guest Editors:

• Dr. Kovila Coopamootoo, King’s College London
• Prof. Shujun Li, University of Kent
• Dr. Michael Sirivianos, Cyprus University of Technology
• Prof. Pavlos Efraimidis, Democritus University of Thrace
• Dr. George Drosatos, Athena Research Center
• Prof. Marios Anagnostopoulos, Aalborg University

This Special Issue is provided by the journal "International Journal of Information Security" and more details are available here.