About the Award
The Cybersecurity Award is presented to authors whose work represents outstanding and groundbreaking research in all essential aspects of cybersecurity. The award will be bestowed upon three distinguished papers focused on the following perspectives:
Track A--- Best Theoretical Research Paper
Track B--- Best Practical Research Paper
Track C--- Best Machine Learning and Security Paper
Every winning paper will receive USD 1500 as the prize with a statue and certificate to commemorate.
Scope
All paper written in the area of cybersecurity is eligible for nomination. Please note that your paper must have appeared in a refereed journal, conference, or workshop with proceedings published from January 1, 2022, until December 31, 2022.
Your paper shall cover at least one of the following aspects:
• Cryptography and its applications
• Network and critical infrastructure security
• Hardware security
• Software and system security
• Cybersecurity data analytics
• Data-driven security and measurement studies
• Adversarial reasoning
• Malware analysis
• Privacy-enhancing technologies and anonymity
• IoT Security
• AI Security
Submission Guidelines
Your nomination shall be directly sent to cybersecurity@iie.ac.cn with the following contents:
• Full paper (Word or PDF format preferred)
• Official publication site of the paper
• The track you prefer (only one track can be chosen per paper)
• Anything else you feel necessary to note
Schedule
January Call for nomination opened
*All nominations must be submitted by April 10, 2023.
May Online voting open
June Review period
July Award recipients are notified; selections announced
August-the end of 2023 ‘Cybersecurity’s salon event’
Reviewing Process and Instructions
Firstly, the nominations will go through online voting publicly. Those with higher votes will be considered in the final assessment of winning papers. You are welcome to tell your friends and support your submission.
The second round of selection will be done by the Awards Committee and up to three papers will be awarded.
ONLY authors of the awarded papers will be notified via email. And the authors of these papers will be invited to present in the seminar on ‘Cybersecurity’s salon event’. Besides, an extended paper of your winning paper will be invited to publish in the journal Cybersecurity.
Previous Winner
In 2022, the award was given to the following two papers. Let’s celebrate the winners mentioned below to get a taste of what to expect for the Cybersecurity Award 2023:
Best Practical Paper --- Robert Buhren, Hans-Niklas Jacob, Thilo Krachenfels, and Jean-Pierre Seifert. 2021. One Glitch to Rule Them All: Fault Injection Attacks Against AMD's Secure Encrypted Virtualization. In Proceedings of the 2021 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2875–2889.
Best Machine Learning and Security Paper --- Xuezixiang Li, Yu Qu, and Heng Yin. 2021. PalmTree: Learning an Assembly Language Model for Instruction Embedding. In Proceedings of the 2021 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 3236–3251