CSR EPES-SPR
2024 IEEE CSR Workshop on Electrical Power and Energy Systems Security, Privacy and Resilience (EPES-SPR)
September 2-4 – Hilton London Tower Bridge (Hybrid Event)
The smart technologies digitize the conventional model of the Electrical Power and Energy Systems (EPES) into a new architectural paradigm, known as the Smart Grid (SG), thus introducing multiple services, such as two-way communication, pervasive control and self-healing. However, despite the benefits, this progression leads to challenging cybersecurity issues due to the vulnerabilities of the new technologies and the necessary presence of legacy and insecure systems, such as Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) / Industrial Control Systems (ICS). On the other side, anticipating the critical issues of EPES/SG, both academia and industry have developed appropriate countermeasures, considering the advances in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the networking domains. AI and especially Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) allow the implementation of detection mechanisms capable of discriminating malicious behaviors as well as zero-day vulnerabilities. Emerging solutions in this sector include Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems and Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (IDPS). Other emblematic technologies that can mitigate or even prevent cyberattacks are honeypots, Software-Defined Networking (SDN), Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and intentional islanding. The workshop focuses on high-quality applied research and innovation results that are obtained from projects (project workshops).
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Prospective authors are encouraged to submit previously unpublished contributions from a broad range of topics, which include but are not limited to the following:
› AI-powered cybersecurity in EPES/SG
› 5G-powered reliable and secure mechanisms for EPES/SG
› Sophisticated security orchestration in EPES/SG
› SDN/NFV-based architectures for resilient EPES/SG
› Threat intelligence mechanisms in EPES/SG
› Business continuity in EPES/SG
› Threat correlation, prioritization and mitigation mechanisms in EPES/SG
› Federated intrusion/anomaly detection and mitigation in EPES/SG
› EPES/SG honeypots, honeynets and digital twins
› Self-healing mechanisms in EPES/SG
› Risk assessment, threat modelling and vulnerability analysis in EPES/SG
Important Dates
Paper submission deadline: June 3, 2024 AoE
Authors’ notification: July 3, 2024 AoE
Camera-ready submission: July 14, 2024 AoE
Early registration deadline: July 20, 2024 AoE
Workshop date: September 2-4, 2024
Submission Guidelines
The workshop’s proceedings will be published by IEEE and will be included in IEEE Xplore. The guidelines for authors, manuscript preparation guidelines, and policies of the IEEE CSR conference are applicable to EPES-SPR 2023 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 2T10 EPES-SPR is selected in the Topic Areas drop down list.
Workshop Committees
Workshop chair
Panagiotis Sarigiannidis, University of Western Macedonia (GR)
Panagiotis Radoglou-Grammatikis, University of Western Macedonia (GR)
Dimitrios Pliatsios, University of Western Macedonia (GR)
Organizing committee
Panagiotis Sarigiannidis, University of Western Macedonia (GR)
Panagiotis Radoglou-Grammatikis, University of Western Macedonia (GR)
Thomas Lagkas, International Hellenic University (GR)
Vasilios Argyriou, Kingston University (UK)
Anna Triantafyllou, University of Western Macedonia (GR)
Publicity chair
Panagiotis Radoglou-Grammatikis, University of Western Macedonia (GR)
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Program committee
George Amponis, K3Y (BG)
Vasileios Gkioulos, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NO)
Eider Iturbe, Tecnalia (ES)
Georgios Karagiannidis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (GR)
Sokratis Katsikas, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NO)
Igor Kotsiuba, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (UA)
Erkuden Rios, Tecnalia (ES)
George Seritan, Polytechnic University of Bucharest (RO)
Antonio Skarmeta, Universidad de Murcia (ES)
Barbara Villarini, University of Westminster (UK)