== Introduction

Founded in 2007, the aim of the NSS (International Conference on Network and System Security) series is to provide a leading edge forum to foster interaction between researchers and developers with the network and system security communities, and to give attendees an opportunity to interact with experts in academia, industry, and governments.

NSS 2023 is the 17th edition of the conference series. Previous editions were held in: Fiji (2022); Tianjin, China (2021); Melbourne, Australia (2020); Sapporo, Japan (2019); Hong Kong, China (2018); Helsinki, Finland (2017); Taipei (2016); New York City, USA (2015); Xi'an, China (2014); Madrid, Spain (2013); Wu Yi Shan, China (2012); Milan, Italy (2011); Melbourne, Australia (2010); Gold Coast, Australia (2009); Shanghai, China (2008); and Dalian, China (2007).

Note that this year NSS 2023 will be co-located with SocialSec 2023 (9th International Symposium on Security and Privacy in Social Networks and Big Data), with which NSS 2023 shares the same website.

== Submission Guidelines

Submissions must be made through the Conference's EasyChair system available at the following link:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nss2023

Authors are invited to submit original papers: they must not substantially duplicate work that any of the authors have published elsewhere or have submitted in parallel to any other conferences that have proceedings or any journal. The submission must be anonymous, with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, or obvious references.

We will publish our proceedings with Springer as a volume of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Submitted papers should be written in English, and can have up to 16 pages in length (single column) excluding well-marked appendices and bibliography, and up to 20 pages in total, following the official Word or LaTeX template from Springer for LNCS papers and using the default settings for font size, font face and page margins. Note that papers should be intelligible without all appendices, since committee members are not required to read them. Detailed author instructions and LaTeX/Word templates for LNCS publications can be found via the following link:

https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines

Submitted papers may risk being rejected directly without consideration of their merits if they do not follow all the above submission instructions.

== Topics of Interest

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

- Intrusion Detection and Prevention
- Network Infrastructure Security
- NFV/SDN Security
- Network Attacks and Defenses
- Wireless Security
- Secure Networked Systems
- Distributed Systems Security
- Cloud Security
- Mobile Security
- Malware/Ransomware Analysis and Detection
- Digital Forensics
- Analysis of Network Security Protocols
- Program and Binary Analysis
- Formal Verification for Network Systems and Protocols
- Fuzzy Testing
- Privacy-enhancing Techniques and Anonymity
- Applied Cryptography
- Cryptographic Protocols for Networks and Systems
- Blockchain Protocols and Systems
- Smart Contract Security
- Blockchain Powered Applications and Services
- Digital Forensics
- Trustworthy Machine Learning and AI
- Privacy-preserving Machine Learning
- Federated Learning Protocols and Systems
- Hardware Security
- Cyber-Physical Systems Security
- Internet of Things Security
- Side-Channel Attacks and Countermeasures
- Confidential Computing and Its Applications
- Watermarking and Digital Rights Management
- Security and Privacy For Digital Health
- Human Factors in Network and System Security

== Organizing Committee

NSS-SocialSec 2023 General Co-Chairs:

- Budi Arief, University of Kent, UK
- Robert Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore
- Elena Ferrari, University of Insubria, Italy

NSS 2023 TPC Co-Chairs:

- Shujun Li, University of Kent, UK
- Mark Manulis, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany
- Atsuko Miyaji, Osaka University and Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan

NSS-SocialSec 2023 Publicity Co-Chairs:

- Yuntao Wang, Osaka University, Japan
- Yulei Wu, University of Exeter, UK
- Zhe Xia, Wuhan University of Technology, China

NSS-SocialSec 2023 Publication Chair:

- Shujun Li, University of Kent, UK

NSS-SocialSec 2023 Web Chair:

- Haiyue Yuan, University of Kent, UK

NSS Steering Committee:

- Yang Xiang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia (Chair)
- Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA
- Robert Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore
- Dieter Gollmann, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany
- Xinyi Huang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
- Kui Ren, Zhejiang University, China
- Ravi Sandhu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
- Wanlei Zhou, City University of Macau, China