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SECITC 2023

November 23-24, 2023

SECITC 2023

International Conference on Security
for Information Technology and Communications

Zoom for online attendees:
https://ase.zoom.us/j/86207574148?pwd=ZTFrbzdrRVVwODdjSnA5K2VBeFJlQT09

SecITC brings together computer security researchers, cryptographers, industry representatives and graduate students interested in any aspect of information security and privacy.
One of the SECITC’s primary goal is connecting security and privacy researchers as well as professionals from different communities and providing a forum that allows informal exchanges necessary for the emergence of new scientific and industrial collaborations.

Conference Program

The 16th International Conference on Security for Information Technology and Communications (SECITC 2023) will be held on November 23-24, 2023. Due to the post CoVID situation, the conference will take place in hybrid mode – online via video conference platform and/or physical attendance for the ones who are available. The conference venue for the physical attendance will be the Palace of the National Military Circle, located right in the heart of Bucharest, the capital city of Romania. The researchers all around the world may join online or in person. SECITC brings together computer security researchers, cryptographers, industry representatives and graduate students interested in any aspect of information security and privacy. One of SECITC’s primary goal is connecting security and privacy researchers as well as professionals from different communities and providing a forum that allows informal exchanges necessary for the emergence of new scientific and industrial collaborations.

The conference topics comprise all aspects of information security, including but not limited to the following areas:

  • Access control,
  • Algorithmic Tools for Security and Cryptography,
  • Application security,
  • Attacks and defences,
  • Authentication Biometry,
  • Blockchain Security and Security aspects of alternative currencies,
  • Censorship and censorship-resistance,
  • Cloud and Web Security,
  • Cryptography, biometric and watermarking,
  • Distributed systems security,
  • Embedded systems security,
  • Digital forensics,
  • Hardware security,
  • Information flow analysis,
  • Internet of Things (IoT) Security,
  • Intrusion detection and prevention system,
  • Language-based security,
  • Malware and Ransomware,
  • Mobile security,
  • Network security,
  • New exploits,
  • Policy enforcements,
  • Privacy and anonymity,
  • Protocol security,
  • Reverse-engineering and code obfuscation,
  • Security architectures,
  • Side channel attacks,
  • Surveillance and anti-surveillance,
  • System security.

Publishing

The SecITC conference has a tradition regarding the publishing of the post-proceedings scientific papers in Springer LNCS – with title “Innovative Security Solutions for Information Technology and Communications”, as follows:

  • SECITC 2022 – Springer as LNCS vol. 13809;
  • SECITC 2021 – Springer as LNCS vol. 13195;
  • SECITC 2020 – Springer as LNCS vol. 12596;
  • SECITC 2019 – Springer as LNCS vol. 12001;
  • SECITC 2018 – Springer as LNCS vol. 11359;
  • SECITC 2017 – Springer as LNCS vol. 10543;
  • SECITC 2016 – Springer as LNCS vol. 10006;
  • SECITC 2015 – Springer as LNCS vol. 9522.

Paper submission and refereeing for SECITC 2023 will take place via EasyChair and the post-proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.

Full Paper Submission: September 20th, 2023 at 23:59 UTC/GMT, October 1st, 2023 at 23:59 UTC/GMT

Notification for acceptance: November 1st, 2023

Registration deadline: November 6th, 2023

Conference: November 23-24th, 2023

Submission is done at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=secitc2023

Authors Information

Paper Format

  • Submissions must not be substantially duplicate work that any of the authors has published elsewhere or has submitted in parallel for consideration to any other journal, conference/workshop with proceedings. The submission should begin with a title followed by a short abstract and keywords. Submissions must be in PDF format and should have at most 12 pages excluding the bibliography and appendices, and at most 20 pages in total, using Springer LNCS format. All submissions must be anonymous. The reviewers are not required to read appendices—the paper should be intelligible without them. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. Authors of accepted papers should guarantee that at least one of the authors will attend the conference and present their paper.
  • Paper submission and review process is handled via EasyChair platform. All submissions must be in PDF format. For paper submission follow the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=secitc2023
  • As the final accepted papers will be published in LNCS by Springer, it is recommended that the submissions be processed in LaTeX2e or Word according to the instructions listed on the Springer’s LNCS Webpage: www.springer.com/lncs. These instructions are mandatory for the final papers.
  • In particular, Springer’s LNCS paper formatting requirements can be found at: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines 

Registration Fees

  • The conference registration fee is 75 € (EURO) for non-students.
  • The conference promotes results obtained by young researchers (undergraduate, graduate, master students, and Ph.D. students) by providing free participation opportunities, but the publishing and operational costs are covered by a fee of 50 € (EURO). Young researchers must provide proof of their university enrolment and must present results obtained individually or with other fellow students.

Payment

  • Payment can be done only by bank transfer.
  • The bank accounts (IBAN) are:
    • For ROL (Romanian currency), Transilvania Bank: RO21 BTRL RONC RT00 G606 7701
    • For EUR (European currency), Transilvania Bank: RO06 BTRL EURC RT00 G606 7701
    • The SWIFT code of Transilvania Bank is: BTRLRO22
    • BENEFICIARY DETAILS: “Asociatia Clubul Informaticii Economice – Cyber Knowledge Club” Non-Profit Association, Fiscal Registration Code (CIF) / Unique Registration Code (CUI): 31079668, No. Reg. Comm.: J84/21.11.2012, Social Address: Bld. Mărăşeşti 19/4, District 4, Bucharest, with postal address: str. Calea Dorobantilor no. 15-17, “Virgil Madgearu” Building, room 2210 / 2315, District 1, Bucharest, web: www.cyberknowledgeclub.org
    • PLEASE SPECIFY IN YOUR PAYMENT ORDER DETAILS: SECITC2023
    • Authors are requested to send to the Conference e-mail (secitc@ase.ro and secitc@gmail.com) the bank transfer confirmation document in order to validate the payment. Until the secretariat receives the document, the registration is considered incomplete.
      Authors must pay the international transfer fee requested by the bank.
      Registration benefits
    • Paper publication in the Springer’s LNCS or Conference Proceedings volume with ISBN / ISSN number.
    • Access to all conference sessions, keynote lectures
    • Authors of the papers will receive additional an invitation to submit a version of their work to a different on-line journal – e.g. IEJMEDS.

Important notes

  • Electronic registration and confirmation date is in November. For the electronic registration, it is enough to send e-mail to secitc@gmail.com with the payment order as attachment and the client details, in order to able us to reply with the electronic invoice. The SecITC Team will do its best to provide the invoice associated to the payment orders. Also please register via RSVP form from the webpage.
  • There will be no refunds for cancellations received after the registration date.
  • If the payment is made by cheque, the authors must support the extra fee for bank handling costs.
  • SecITC2023 will take place in hybrid approach – physical and/or online via Zoom platform and it will be joinable from any place on Earth. The conference venue for the physical attendance will be the Palace of the National Military Circle, located right in the heart of Bucharest, the capital city of Romania.

Technical Support Team

  • Luciana MOROGAN – Military Technical Academy, ROMANIA
  • Bogdan IANCU – Bucharest University of Economic Studies, ROMANIA
  • Mihai PURA – Military Technical Academy, ROMANIA
  • Emil SIMION – University Politehnica of Bucharest, ROMANIA
  • Andrei-George OPRINA – Advanced Technologies Institute & University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, ROMANIA
  • Ioana Corina BOGDAN –Transilvania University of Brasov, Brasov, ROMANIA
  • Simona Mihaela BIBIC – University Politehnica of Bucharest, ROMANIA
  • Elena Corina CIPU – University Politehnica of Bucharest, ROMANIA

Partners and Sponsors

  • Cyber | IT Security Master – Bucharest University of Economic Studies
  • Information Technology Security Master – Military Technical Academy
  • Coding and Storage Theory of Information Master University Politehnica of Bucharest
  • Advanced Technologies Institute
  • Center for Research and Training in Innovative Techniques of Applied Mathematics in Engineering
  • TCSI: https://www.tcsi.ro/
  • CiTi: https://citi.upb.ro/