Dear Colleagues,

We would like to invite you to contribute a paper to the 2026 Automotive Cyber Security Workshop (ACSW’26) co-located with the 11th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (Lisbon, Portugal, July 10, 2026).

Conference website https://acsw.unimore.it/
Submission link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acsw26
Submission deadline March 12th, 2026 (AoE)
Author Notification April 10th, 2026

The workshop will take place on July 10, 2026 (post-conference workshop) in Lisbon, Portugal.

*Call for Papers*
The fifth edition of the Automotive Cyber Security Workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners, interested in all aspects of automotive systems security, to contribute with and discuss new advances in the field of automotive cybersecurity. The Automotive Cyber Security Workshop aims to present recent advances in the state-of-the-art for cybersecurity of road vehicles, connecting researchers and industry representatives across all areas of computer security focusing on automotive systems.

All papers discussing security and privacy issues of modern vehicles are welcome for submission. ACSW particularly welcomes papers focusing on the security of communication networks found inside and outside the modern vehicles, on the privacy issues related to modern infotainment systems, and on the forensic analysis of modern vehicle components. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Hardware security and privacy in automotive components
- Forensic analysis of automotive components
- Firmware analysis and vulnerability assessment in automotive contexts
- Reverse engineering of automotive components and proprietary protocols
- Privacy-preserving applications in modern vehicles
- Secure and privacy-preserving communications for in-vehicle communication protocols
- Intrusion detection and prevention systems for automotive systems
- Replication and Reproduction of security and privacy-preserving solutions for automotive systems
- Secure and privacy-preserving communications for Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) applications
- Secure and privacy-preserving applications in Cooperative Intelligent Transportation Systems (C-ITS)
- Security and privacy for automotive-related infrastructures
- Security and privacy in automotive-related industries
- Vulnerability assessment and attack simulations of automotive systems


Following the requests from the authors from the different iterations of the workshop, the Automotive Cyber Security Workshop will offer the following submission tracks:

- Outside Proceedings: papers submitted in this track will undergo the peer review process but will not be included in the proceedings of the workshop
- R+R: studies that confirm, challenge, or clarify the findings of previous research. Papers submitted in this track must include the prefix “R+R:” in their title and will be subject to the same rigorous scientific standards as other technical paper submissions. They will undergo full program committee review, be included in the proceedings, and have to be presented during the technical program of the conference. We distinguish between regular submissions and R+R studies to better distinguish between the expected results and advancements to the state-of-the-art of the different submissions. However, papers submitted in this track must go beyond merely re-running the original artifacts or re-implementing existing methods. We are seeking contributions that not only replicate previous studies but also critically analyze, refine, and expand upon their findings and limitations
- Regular Full: papers submitted as Full submissions to the workshop
- Regular Short: papers submitted as Short submissions to the workshop

*Important Dates*
Submission deadline: March 12, 2026
Notification to the authors: April 10, 2026
Workshop date: July 10, 2026

*Submission Instructions - Page Limit and Formatting*

Instructions regarding page limits and formatting can be found on the workshop web page: https://acsw.unimore.it/submission.html.
Papers must be submitted electronically, in PDF format, through EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acsw26).


*Review Process*
Submitted papers will undergo a double-blind reviewing process, so authors must make sure that initial submissions do not contain information that might reveal their identity (e.g., author names, affiliations, email addresses or obvious self references). It is the author’s responsibility to ensure that their anonymity is preserved when citing their own work. Failures to adhere to these requirements can be grounds for rejection.

*Submission and Proceedings*
Accepted articles in the regular and short paper tracks will be published through IEEE Xplore in a volume accompanying the main IEEE EuroS&P 2026 proceedings. Authors can choose to have their paper excluded from the proceedings. At least one author for each accepted paper is expected to register and participate in the workshop for presentation.
All submissions considered for inclusion in the proceedings must contain an original contribution and should not be concurrently submitted to other workshops, conferences, or journals. These requirements are relaxed for papers which will not be included in the proceedings.



*Organizing Committee*
Program Chairs:
- Tatsuya Mori, Department of Communication and Computer Engineering, Waseda University, Japan
- Dario Stabili, Department of Engineering ¨Enzo Ferrari¨, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
- Pal-Stefan Murvay, Faculty of Automation and Computers, Politehnica University of Timișoara, Romania
Publicity Chair:
- Giovanni Gambigliani Zoccoli, Department of Engineering ¨Enzo Ferrari¨, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Technical Program committee:
- Daniele Antonioli, EURECOM, France
- Alessandro Brighente, University of Padova, Italy
- Meriem Benyahya, University Mohammed VI Polytechnic, Morocco
- Jeremy Bryans, Coventry University, UK
- Mauro Conti, University of Padova, Italy
- Denis Donadel, University of Verona, Italy
- Bela Genge, Bitdefender, Romania
- Bogdan Groza, Politehnica University of Timișoara, Romania
- Konstantinos Kalogiannis, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
- Francesco Marchiori, University of Padova, Italy
- Ryo Kurachi, Nagoya University, Japan
- Stefano Longari, Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy
- Mirco Marchetti, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
- Ilaria Matteucci, CNR, Italy
- Mario Raciti, University of Catania, Italy
- Samuel Woo, Dankook University, Korea
- Takeshi Sugawara, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan
- Kentaro Yoshioka, Keio University, Japan
- Takami Sato, Keio University, Japan


*Contacts*
All questions about submissions should be emailed to:
- Dario Stabili (dario.stabili@unimore.it)
- Tatsuya Mori (mori@nsl.cs.waseda.ac.jp)
- Pal-Stefan Murvay (pal-stefan.murvay@aut.upt.ro)