he first  Foundations & Practice of Security (FPS) Symposium was held in 2008, following the Canada-France Meeting on Security held at the Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, in 2007. Since then, the FPS Symposium has been held annually, alternating Canadian and French locations. After the previous meetings took place in Grenoble, Toronto, Paris, Montréal, La Rochelle, Clermont-Ferrand, Québec City, Nancy, Toulouse, Ottawa, Bordeaux, the 17th edition will be held on December 9-11, 2024, in Montréal, Canada.

Protecting the data and its infrastructure of an increasingly interconnected world has become vital to the normal functioning of all aspects of our daily life. As a result, security and cyber resilience have emerged as scientific research fields focusing on the technologies, processes, and procedures used to protect against cyber threats and to ensure the integrity, availability, and confidentiality of data, applications, and services. Many industries and businesses, including banking, healthcare, transportation, and manufacturing, rely on various technologies both on premise and in the cloud to improve scalability and reduce costs. Alongside technical defenses, behavioral research enhances our ability to protect digital assets by considering the human behavior. All these multifaceted components necessitate research collaborations from various communities such as mathematics, computer science, information systems, management, and criminology.

The aim of the FPS symposium is to discuss and exchange theoretical and practical ideas that address privacy, security and cyber resilience issues in interconnected systems. Moreover, it aims to provide scientific presentations as well as to promote scientific collaborations, joint research programs, and student exchanges between institutions involved in this fast-moving field. For the 17th edition, special care will be given to innovative behavioral research enhancing privacy and cyber resilience research. We are particularly interested in topics such as insider threat, user-centric security interfaces, security culture, and user compliance.

Both researchers and practitioners are invited to submit their original papers spanning the full range of theoretical and applied work including user research, methods, tools, simulations, demos, and practical evaluations.

Topics of Interest

The topics of interest include but are not limited to (alphabetically ordered):

Access control
Adversarial attacks to automated cyber defense
AI for cybersecurity and cybersecurity for AI
Behavioral cybersecurity and privacy
Blockchain-based systems security and security services
Code reverse engineering and vulnerability exploitation
Computer and network security
Cryptography and cryptanalysis
Data security
Digital Currencies
Ethical and social implications of privacy and security
Fake news detection
Governance and Risk Management for security, privacy and cyber resilience
Hardware security
Identity management and protection
IoT security and privacy
Malware, botnet, and advanced persistent threats
Open-source intelligence cybersecurity
Privacy and privacy enhancing technologies
Privacy and security awareness
Security and privacy management and policies
Security and Privacy of AI
Security of cloud, grid, and edge computing
Security of continuum IoT-edge-Cloud
Security of distributed embedded middleware
Security of service-oriented architectures
Security, privacy, and trust of industrial systems
Side-channel and physical attacks
Software security
Systems forensics and cybercrime
Threat analysis and trust management
Web Security and Privacy