2nd International Workshop on Security and Reliability of IoT Systems (SecRIoT 2020) – SEEDA CECNSM 2020 – 5th South-East Europe Design Automation, Computer Engineering, Computer Networks and Social Media Conference

Short Description and Goals

The next years more than 20 billion devices will be interconnected. The Internet of Things provides unparalleled opportunities for the development of new novel services. Currently most of the new electronic devices are offering from basic to advanced networking capabilities in the context of smart environments. Newer vehicles are partially or completely autonomous, powered by modern microprocessors, hundreds of sensors and Internet enabled services. The same applies to robotic and medical devices and almost every other advanced equipment. Despite the longstanding efforts of the scientific community to secure Internet and Network communications, Operating Systems and Software Applications only a limited amount of this knowledge has been applied to the IoT ecosystems. Most of the IoT devices, including modern vehicles suffer from numerous and multilayered vulnerabilities. Default, weak or no password authentication for remote connections, unencrypted traffic or obsolete and insecure cryptographic algorithms, outdated, unmanaged and vulnerable software are among the most serious problems of the IoT landscape. Even more alarming is the unregulated manufacturing process of many IoT constructors. Aiming to reduce the cost and minimize the time to market of their products, minimal or none effort is put to secure and support them sufficiently. Worse, there are recorded cases of IoT devices delivered with preinstalled malware that demonstrate total lack of operations security in the supply chain. In contrary to software applications in PCs and mobile devices, the owners are not likely to replace their devices because of security problems. As consequence these systems remain vulnerable for extended periods. Recent very large-scale DDoS attacks based and executed entirely by IoT Botnets, signify the magnitude of the problem.

Workshop Topics

The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers and professionals that are responsible for the secure design, deployment and operation of current and future IoT systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

IoT Security and Privacy
IoT Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems
Cyber Physical Security and IoT
Secure Design Methodologies for IoT Systems
Secure Hardware and Software Codesign
Development of Secure Embedded Systems
Secure Embedded Operation Systems
IoT Malware
Autonomous Vehicles Cybersecurity
Secure Network Protocols for IoT Systems
IoT and Blockchain
Secure Manufacturing Process of IoT Devices
Privacy Protection in IoT Environments
Security and Privacy of Medical Devices
IoT Trust and Reliability
Reliable Robotic Devices

Important Dates (for workshop papers only!)

Workshop Paper Submission Deadline: ~~May 10, 2020~~, May 30, 2020
Notification of Workshop Paper Acceptance: ~~June 1, 2020~~, June 15, 2020
Camera-Ready Workshop Papers Due: June 28, 2020
Early Registration Deadline: June 28, 2020

Submission Guidelines

Authors should submit original, unpublished research papers. All papers must not simultaneously be submitted to another journal or conference.

Papers and abstracts should be submitted through the main SEEDA-CECNSM 2020 submission website in PDF format. Authors should follow the SEEDA-CECNSM 2020 formatting as indicated here: https://hilab.di.ionio.gr/seeda2020/index.php/submissions/

By submitting a paper, authors implicitly agree that at least one of them will register to the SEEDA-CECNSM 2020 conference and present the paper. It is expected that at least one author will register for each accepted paper. Only papers that have been presented by their authors during the SEEDA-CECNSM 2020 conference will be published in the conference’s proceedings.

Extended versions of accepted papers will be considered for publication in the following Special Issue of the Computation journal:

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/computation/special_issues/advances_computation_engineering

Workshop Organizers

Assistant Professor Athanasios Kakarountas, University of Thessaly, Greece – kakarountas@ieee.org

Athanasios Kakarountas (S’98-M’04-SM’10) holds a Diploma of Engineering and a Ph.D. from the University of Patras, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, (1998 and 2004 respectively), and an MBA from the Open University of Cyprus (2015). He is an Assistant Professor at the University of Thessaly. He has a rich educational background since 2005, being an Adjunct Professor or tenure Assistant Professor at the University of Central Greece, University of Thessaly, University of Patras, Hellenic Open University, TEI of Ionian Islands, TEI of Lamia, TEI of Western Greece.

His research topics include mainly Computer Architecture and Embedded Systems, covering also Digital system design (VLSI), low-power design and hardware accelerator development. Dr. Kakarountas has participated in 19 projects funded by EU and/or General Secretariat of Research and Technology (GSRT). He has published more than 80 scientific articles in international peer-reviewed journals and conferences’ proceedings; he has co-authored 4 book chapters and 1 e-book. His research was awarded with 1 post-doc scholarship, 4 international awards and 2 national awards, and his work has received more than 700 citations. He is reviewer in 7 international journals and 11 international conferences, and member of the Organizing Committee of a plethora of international conferences. He has been elected in the Board of the Greece IEEE Section and he is the interim chairman of the Consumer Electronics Society Greece Chapter. He is also Chairman of the Regional Scientific Committee for Research and Innovation of Central Greece. Finally, he is a Senior Member of IEEE, ACM, and member of IET, EURASIP, ΤΕΕ..

Assistant Professor Vasileios Vlachos, University of Thessaly, Greece – vsvlachos@uth.gr

Dr. Vasileios Vlachos is Assistant Professor at the General Department of the University of Thessaly. He is a senior researcher at the Computer Technology Institute (C.T.I.) of Patras, Greece. He was a member of the Digital Awareness and Response to Threats (DART) team of the Special Secretariat for Digital Planning of the Hellenic Ministry of Economy and Finance. Dr. Vlachos holds a Diploma of Engineering in Electronic & Computer Engineering from Technical University of Crete, a MSc in Integrated Hardware and Software Systems from the Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics of the University of Patras and a PhD in Information Systems Security from the Department of Management Science and Technology of the Athens University of Economics and Business. Dr Vlachos is member of the Board of Directors of the Greek Free/Open Source Software Society (GFOSS), member of the Board of Directors of the Hellenic Association of Computer Engineers (HACE) and member of the Board of Directors of the Greek Computer Society (GCS).

Associate Professor Periklis Chatzimisios, International Hellenic University, Greece – pchatzimisios@ihu.gr

Dr. Periklis Chatzimisios serves as a Professor in the Department of Science and Technology at the International Hellenic University (IHU), Greece. In the past he has served as the Director of the Computing Systems, Security and Networks (CSSN) Research Lab and as the Vice Dean for the Faculty of Science and Technology. He is a Visiting Fellow in the Faculty of Science & Technology, at Bournemouth University, UK. For more than 15 years he has been a member and/or Chairman of the Scientific/Steering/Organizing Committee of hundreds of international conferences and Founder/Organizer/Co-Chair for many Workshops which are co-allocated with major IEEE conferences. He was recently appoointed as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Standards E-Magazine (eZine) and he holds editorial board positions for several journals published by IEEE (such as IEEE Network, IEEE Communication Standards Magazine, IEEE Wireless Communication Magazine, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, IEEE Access, IEEE Communication Letters) and other publishing houses. He is the author/editor of 8 books and more than 140 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters on the topics of topics of performance evaluation and standardization activities of mobile/wireless communications, Internet of Things, 4th Industrial Revolution, security and vehicular networking. His published research work has received more than 4300 citations (H-index 32) by other researchers. He is regularly invited for talks, tutorials and seminars on topics related to his research interests..

Ioannis Chochliouros, Head of Research Programs Section, OTE, Greece – ichochliouros@oteresearch.gr

Dr. Ioannis P. Chochliouros graduated from the Dept. of Electrical Engineering of the Polytechnic School of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, holding also a M.Sc. (D.E.A.) & a Ph.D. (Doctorat) from the University Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), France. He has also worked as an independent consultant in the scope of several European and/or international research and business studies. Since 2005, he is the Head of OTE’s Research Programs Section and has been involved in different national, European and international R&D projects and market-oriented activities, many of which have received international awards. During his professional career he has participated either as coordinator or as a scientist-researcher in more than 45 European and national research programs, some of which have received distinctive awards. He is author/co-author of three international books and he has published more than 200 distinct scientific or business papers/reports in the international literature (book chapters and articles in magazines, journals, and conferences proceedings), especially for technical, business and regulatory options arising from innovative e-Infrastructures and e-Services. He is an expert in project management activities with an extensive experience in EU-funded projects where he has very successfully exercised coordinator’s duties (e.g.: D-SPACE, LiveCity, Privacy-Flag, SESAME, 5G ESSENCE). He is also an active participant of various international and national associations, both of scientific and business nature. Dr. Chochliouros has also performed an extended educational activity in Greece and in France, in cooperation with Universities and other high-level Institutes, covering a broad variety of issues in the scope of modern e-communications.