2026 IEEE CSR Workshop on Shield Techniques for Cybersecurity Innovation and Resilience (CyberShield)

 Call for Papers

The CSR CYBERSHIELD workshop will showcase cutting-edge innovations and methodologies developed through prominent EU-funded projects, which collectively address critical challenges in cybersecurity resilience and defense. It will create an ecosystem for exploring novel approaches to Security-as-a-Service, AI-driven threat and vulnerability detection, blockchain integration, adversarial robustness, cybersecurity awareness training, collective threat intelligence, and incident response. The scope encompasses applied research and practical solutions, incl. tailored cybersecurity tools, methods targeting AI for cybersecurity and cybersecurity for AI, policy-based deployment mechanisms, and advanced threat mitigation strategies. Participants will gain insights into how the research community synergize to deliver comprehensive cybersecurity frameworks, demonstrating the integration of research outcomes with real-world applications. This workshop delves into the resilience aspect of cybersecurity, which is one of the core tenets of the IEEE CSR event, emphasizing on applied solutions and real-world applications.

The CSR CYBERSHIELD workshop will accept high-quality research papers presenting strong theoretical contributions, applied research and innovation results obtained from funded cyber-security and resilience projects, and industrial papers that promote contributions on technology development and contemporary implementations.

Topics of Interest

Prospective authors are encouraged to submit previously unpublished contributions from a broad range of topics, which include but are not limited to the following:

› Security-as-a-Service (SECaaS) for SMEs
› AI-Driven Cyber Threat Detection
› Blockchain-Based Cybersecurity
› Cyber Resilience for SMEs
› Collective Threat Intelligence and Information Sharing
› Policy-driven Cybersecurity Deployments
› Proactive and Automated Pentesting and Ethical Hacking
› Next-generation trustworthy computing security solutions (e.g., TPMs, TEEs, RISC-V) and attacks
› Trusted Path Routing

› Social Engineering, Cybersecurity Awareness and Training
› Secure Integration of Digital Technologies
› Incident Response and Recovery
› Cyber Risk Assessment and Management
› Cybersecurity Metrics and Analytics
› Compliance and Legal Assessment and Mitigation Strategies in Cybersecurity
› Holistic Cybersecurity Lifecycle empowering Resilient Defense Methods
› Arms races and trade-offs in cyber-security vs. trust; vs. usability
› Trust management and reputation
› Secure communication protocols

Important Dates

Paper submission deadline: April 13, 2026 May 13, 2026
Authors’ notification: May 4, 2026 June 7, 2026 (Updated)
Camera-ready submission: May 25, 2026 June 25, 2026
Registration deadline (authors): May 25, 2026 June 25, 2026
Workshop dates: August 3–5, 2026

Submission Guidelines

Submitted manuscripts should not exceed 6 pages (plus 2 extra pages, being subject to overlength page charges) and should be of sufficient detail to be evaluated by expert reviewers in the field. The workshop’s proceedings will be published by IEEE and will be included in IEEE Xplore subject to meeting IEEE Xplore’s scope and quality requirements.

The guidelines for authors, manuscript preparation guidelines, and policies of the IEEE CSR conference are applicable to CyberShield workshop. Please visit the authors’ instructions page for more details. When submitting your manuscript via the conference management system, please make sure that the workshop’s track 2T5 CyberShield is selected in the Topic Areas drop down list.

Workshop Committees

Workshop Chairs

Contact Us

liqun.chen@surrey.ac.uk
maliatsos@mobile.ntua.gr
edgardo.montesdeoca@montimage.eu
ahmed.amro@ntnu.no

Organizing Committee

Davide Ariu, Pluribus (IT)
Evangelos Kafantaris, UBITECH (GR)
Sophia Karagiorgou, UBITECH (GR)
Ioannis Ledakis, UBITECH (GR)
Fabio Roli, University of Genova (IT)

Technical Program Committee

Aida Akbarzadeh, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NO)
Theodora Anastasiou, UBITECH (GR)
Athanasios Giannetsos, UBITECH (GR)
Evangelos Kafantaris, UBITECH (GR)
Sophia Karagiorgou, UBITECH (GR)
Georgios Kavallieratos, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NO)
Ioannis Ledakis, UBITECH (GR)
Nikolaos Maragkos, UBITECH (GR)
Sofianna Menesidou, UBITECH (GR)
Ioannis Pastellas, UBITECH (GR)
Katerina Samari, UBITECH (GR)
Sarang Shaikh, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NO)

Publicity Chairs

Sophia Karagiorgou, UBITECH (GR)
Georgia Protogerou, UBITECH (GR)

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