Following the successful 13th ICGS3, we have much pleasure in announcing the 14th International conference on Global Security, Safety & Sustainability.

The proceedings of the 14th ICGS3 will be published by Springer ‘Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications’ series.

14th ICGS3-22 will take place virtually and soft copies of the proceedings will be sent to delegates after the event.

Date: 7 – 8 September 2022

Location: Virtual Conference, with a blended format considered if COVID-19 situation improves

2020 will be remembered as a year of COVID-19 pandemic year with a profound impact on our lives and challenging times for governments around the world with technology as a backbone of tools to assist us to work remotely while in self isolations and in total lockdown. Every individual and organization are faced with the challenges of the adoption of technological change and understand that nothing will be the same for some time after and even when normality resumes. AI, blockchain, machine learning, IoT, IoMT, IIoT all are tested and applied at a very rapid turnaround as we go through the pandemic day after day. However, all this transformation can bring many associated risks regarding data, such as privacy, transparency, exploitation, and ownership.

Since the pandemic in January 2020, governments, and organizations; small or large have seen an increase in cyber-attacks. Hackers, through reconnaissance and some network intrusions, targeting nation-states medical research facilities, healthcare organizations conducting research into the virus, financial sectors, and so on. Early in April 2020, the UK, and US security agencies sound COVID-19 threat alert“…Cybersecurity Infrastructure and Security Agency issued a joint warning that hacking groups associated with nation-state governments are exploiting the COVID-19 pandemic as part of their cyber operations…”

The advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI), coupled with the prolificacy of the Internet of Things (IoT) devices are creating smart societies that are interconnected. The expansion of Big Data and volumetric metadata generated and collated by these mechanisms not only give greater depth of understanding but as change is coming at an unprecedented pace covid19 is drives the cultural changes and the public sector innovations to a new height of responsibilities.

Further development and analysis of defence tactics and countermeasures are needed fast to understand security vulnerabilities which will be exploited by cybercriminals by identifying newer technologies that can aid in protecting and securing data with a range of supporting processes to provide a higher level of cyber resilience.

The ethical implications of connecting the physical and digital worlds, and presenting the reality of a truly interconnected society, presents the realization of the concept of smart societies in reality.

This Annual International Conference is an established platform in which security, safety, and sustainability issues can be examined from several global perspectives through dialogue between academics, students, government representatives, chief executives, security professionals, and research scientists from the United Kingdom and from around the globe.

The TWO-days Virtual conference will focus on the challenges of complexity, the rapid pace of change, and risk/opportunity issues associated with the 21st-century lifestyle, systems, and infrastructures.
List of TOPICS
The list of topics includes (but are not limited to):

Security in Connected world
Smart Cities, and Societies
Augmented Humanity and cyborgs
Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI)
Security of Medical Data for Smart Healthcare
SCADA and Ransomware
Cyber War and Cyber Warfare, Cybersecurity Kill Chain
Biohacking and bio-computing Threat/ Attack Vectors
Predictive Control and Analysis of Cyber Attacks
Attack Vectors & APTS (Advanced Persistent Threats)
Digital Twins
Cyber Threat Intelligence
Intelligence Led penetration testing
Blockchain and smart contracts
Biometric Recognition Systems and Biometry Information Exchange Security
Big data – from criminals angle and law enforcers angle
5G, 6G and Smart cities
Vulnerability Assessments, Attack Pattern Recognition, Enterprise Architecture Security
Cyber Intelligence and Operation
Digital leadership and Governance
Cyber-Crime Detection and Prevention
Crime Information Intelligence Network
Cyber Threat Intelligence
Open-Source Intelligence
Social Media governance
Digital footprint, Deepfake
Impact of technology on crime investigation (policing)
Cyber Criminology
Domestic Abuse in smart societies
Cyber Criminology, Theories and Models, Psychology of the Cyber Criminals
Criminal Data Mining, Threat Analysis and Prediction
Victimisation, Radicalisation, social media, Terrorist Threats
Cybercrime Justice Models
Dark Web/ Darknet
Ethics in Smart and AI driven societies
Smart Societies and Data Exploitation
Age of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Moral and Ethical implications of Digital Societies
Privacy of Medical Data for Smart Healthcare
Data Ownership, GDPR, Digital foot print, privacy and transparency
IOT, IoMT, IoNT
Insider Threat – The Human Element, Strategic Approaches to Security
Information Systems Security Management
Cyber Risk Management
Modelling Approaches, Security and Systems Assurance Frameworks
Cyber Resilience, Safety and Security Evaluation, Assessment and Certification
Digital transformation and leadership
IT Audit, Governance and Security, Risk Assessment, Methodologies and Tools
Security and Privacy Architecture and Design for Software and Systems
Human Aspects in Security and Privacy
The Future of Digital Forensics and Anti-forensics