The European Interdisciplinary Cybersecurity Conference – EICC 2021 aims at establishing a venue for the exchange of information on cybersecurity and its many aspects between academics and practitioners in Europe. EICC was until 2019 known as the Central European Cybersecurity Conference – CECC and has been rebranded to underscore the interdisciplinarity of the conference and broaden its reach. EICC 2021 encourages the dialogue between computer scientists and researchers in all other fields related to cybersecurity, such as behavioral sciences, sociology, criminology, investigations and law. Interdisciplinary contributions are especially welcome.

== COVID-19 update ==

EICC 2021 switched to a *fully virtual* conference. Conference proceedings will be published by ACM as planned.

== Publication ==

EICC 2021 proceedings will be published by Association for Computer Machinery (ACM) in the ACM Digital Library within its International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS).

Proceedings from the previous conferences are available here:

* EICC 2020 (published by ACM): https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3424954
* CECC 2019 (published by ACM): https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3360664
* CECC 2018 (published by ACM): https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3277570
* CECC 2017 (published by University of Maribor Press): https://press.um.si/index.php/ump/catalog/book/296

== Important dates ==

Submission deadline: ** 30 June 2021 ** (extended)
Author notification: 25 July 2021
Poster submission: 23 August 2021
Doctoral Symposium submission: 23 August 2021
Camera-ready: 27 September 2021

== Submission guidelines ==

The official language of the conference is English. Papers are limited to 6 pages.

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

* Full papers reporting on original research findings (5-6 pages)
* Short papers reporting on original research findings (2-4 pages)
* Posters (extended abstracts) reporting on original research findings (1-2 pages)
* Doctoral Symposium papers (2-4 pages)

The conference will offer a *Best paper award* and a *Best Doctoral Symposium paper award*. The awards will be announced and bestowed at the conference closing session. The award will be conferred to the author(s) of awarded papers who will be present at the conference. The decision criterion will consider both the paper quality and the oral presentation quality.

Papers submitted to EICC 2021 have to use the ACM SigConf template. Please, read template instructions carefully before submitting the paper. The use of the Latex template is strongly encouraged. Non-proficient Latex users are encouraged to use the Overleaf online collaborative Latex platform (ACM Latex template on Overleaf).

Word users: For peer review, use the two-column template. Keep in mind that you will need to submit the paper in the one-column template to TAPS after acceptance. The final paper will be published in a two-column format.

Latex users: Use only the two-column template (first line in the document: \documentclass[sigconf]{acmart}). Keep in mind that TAPS supports only specific packages (https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/accepted-latex-packages).

The quality of the research papers will be assessed based on its originality, significance and clarity.

All submitted research papers will undergo a double-blind reviewing process. Please, make sure that submitted papers do not contain author names or obvious self-references. Please note that the page limit applies to papers with authors and not the submitted anonymized version.

Each paper will be reviewed by 2-3 reviewers. Afterwards, a discussion will be held by the chairs and reviewers to determine the outcomes of the peer-review.

Authors of accepted posters should prepare A1 sized posters (portrait or landscape) for the poster exhibition. Other designs may be considered. Titles of poster submissions should be prefixed with POSTER (e.g., POSTER: The role of information sensitivity in adoption of E2EE communication software).

Titles of papers submitted to the Doctoral Symposium should be prefixed with DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM (e.g., DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM: A novel approach for acquiring training and software security requirements).

Submission of a paper / poster implies that at least one of the authors will register and present the paper / poster at the conference if the paper / poster is accepted. If an author has more than one accepted paper / poster, each additional accepted paper / poster costs the same fee as the first.

== List of topics ==

The conference is devoted to exploring and presenting original innovative applications, scientific and technological advancements in the field of cybersecurity. Topics for this conference include, but are not limited to:

* 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

== Committees ==

-- Conference chair --

Martin Gilje Jaatun, University of Stavanger (Norway)

-- Program committee co-chair --

Geir Myrdahl Køien, University of South-eastern Norway (Norway)
Oksana Kulyk, ITU Copenhagen (Denmark)

-- Doctoral symposium chair --

Daniela Soares Cruzes, Norwegian university of science and technology (Norway)

-- Doctoral symposium co-chair --

Lynsay Shepherd, Abertay University (UK)

-- Program committee --

Habtamu Abie, Norwegian Computing Centre (Norway)
Rafael Asorey Cacheda, Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena (Spain)
Jurlind Budurushi, Cloudical Deutschland (Germany)
Luca Caviglione, IMATI - CNR (Italy)
Michal Choras, University of Science and Technology (Poland)
Michele Colajanni, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy)
Tobias Eggendorfer, University of Applied Sciences Ravensburg-Weingarten (Germany)
Marijke Coetzee, University of Johannesburg (South Africa)
Virginia Franqueira, University of Kent (UK)
Dieter Gollmann, Hamburg University of Technology (Germany)
Petra Grd, University of Zagreb (Croatia)
Nils Gruschka, University of Oslo (Norway)
Mordechai Guri, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Israel)
Piroska Haller, University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Sciences and Technology of Tg. Mures (Romania)
Marko Hölbl, University of Maribor (Slovenia)
Xinyi Huang, Fujian Normal University (China)
Pedro R. M. Inácio, University Beira Interior (Portugal)
Audun Jøsang, University of Oslo (Norway)
Georgios Karopoulos, Joint Research Centre (Italy)
Stefan Katzenbeisser, University of Passau (Germany)
Peter Kieseberg, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences (Austria)
Romain Laborde, University of Toulouse (France)
Jean-Francois Lalande, CentraleSupélec / Inria (France)
Albert Levi, Sabanci University (Turkey)
Shujun Li, University of Kent (UK)
Zhen Liu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China)
Haibing Lu, Santa Clara University (USA)
Olaf Maennel, Tallinn University of Technology (Estonia)
Brad Malin, Vanderbilt University (USA)
Karola Marky, Technical University of Darmstadt (Germany)
Peter Mayer, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany)
Rodrigo Miani, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (Brazil)
Aleksandra Mileva, University Goce Delcev (North Macedonia)
Caroline Moeckel, Royal Holloway, University of London (UK)
Pal-Stefan Murvay, Politehnica University of Timisoara (Romania)
Sebastian Pape, Goethe University Frankfurt (Germany)
Alexander Pretschner, Technical University of Munich (Germany)
Kaja Prislan, University of Maribor (Slovenia)
Anderson Santana De Oliveira, SAP (Germany)
Gerardo Simari, Universidad Nacional del Sur in Bahía Blanca and CONICET (Argentina)
Florian Skopik, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology (Austria)
Daniel Spiekermann, Polizeiakademie Niedersachsen (Germany)
Hung-Min Sun, National Tsing Hua University (Taiwan)
Yuqiong Sun, Facebook (USA)
Mahesh Tripunitara, University of Waterloo (Canada)
Edgar Weippl, SBA Research (Austria)
Steffen Wendzel, Worms University of Applied Sciences (Germany)
Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus (Greece)
Nicola Zannone, Eindhoven University of Technology (Netherlands)
Aleš Završnik, Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law Ljubljana (Slovenia)

-- Organizing chair --

Bela Genge, University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Sciences and Technology of Tg. Mures (Romania)

-- Organizing co-chair --

Piroska Haller, University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Sciences and Technology of Tg. Mures (Romania)

-- Organizing team --

Bogdan Crainicu, University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Sciences and Technology of Tg. Mures (Romania)
Adam Gergely, University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Sciences and Technology of Tg. Mures (Romania)
Teri Lenard, University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Sciences and Technology of Tg. Mures (Romania)
Roland Bolboaca, University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Sciences and Technology of Tg. Mures (Romania)

-- Workshops co-chairs --

Martin Gilje Jaatun, University of Stavanger (Norway)
Bela Genge, University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Sciences and Technology of Tg. Mures (Romania)

Call for workshops:

http://wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showcfp?eventid=125590

-- Steering committee --

Igor Bernik, University of Maribor (Slovenia)
Bela Genge, University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Sciences and Technology of Tg. Mures (Romania)
Joerg Keller, FernUniversitaet in Hagen (Germany)
Blaž Markelj, University of Maribor (Slovenia)
Wojciech Mazurczyk, Warsaw University of Technology (Poland)
Simon Vrhovec, University of Maribor (Slovenia)

== Contact ==

All questions about submissions should be emailed to eicc@fvv.uni-mb.si.