The next years more than 20 billion devices will be interconnected. The Internet of Things provides unparalleled opportunities for the development of new novel services. Currently, most of the new electronic devices are offering from basic to advanced networking capabilities in the context of smart environments. Newer vehicles are partially or completely autonomous, powered by modern microprocessors, hundreds of sensors and Internet enabled services. The same applies to robotic and medical devices and almost every other advanced equipment. Despite the longstanding efforts of the scientific community to secure Internet and Network communications, Operating Systems and Software Applications, only a limited amount of this knowledge has been applied to the IoT ecosystems. Most of the IoT devices, including modern vehicles suffer from numerous and multilayered vulnerabilities. Default, weak or no password authentication for remote connections, unencrypted traffic or obsolete and insecure cryptographic algorithms, outdated, unmanaged and vulnerable software are among the most serious problems of the IoT landscape. Even more alarming is the unregulated manufacturing process of many IoT constructors. Aiming to reduce the cost and minimize the time to market of their products, minimal or none effort is put to secure and support them sufficiently. Worse, there are recorded cases of IoT devices delivered with preinstalled malware that demonstrate total lack of operations security in the supply chain. In contrary to software applications in PCs and mobile devices, the owners are not likely to replace their devices because of security problems. As consequence, these systems remain vulnerable for extended periods. Recent very large-scale DDoS attacks based and executed entirely by IoT Botnets, signify the magnitude of the problem.

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. 

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished manuscripts demonstrating current research on distributed smart systems and IoT related to the aforementioned topics of interest. Please use the US letter size (8.5 X 11 in) standard IEEE conference LaTeX format or Microsoft Word template available on: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html.

All submissions should be written in English and have a maximum of eight (8) printed pages, including figures and references.

List of Topics

• IoT Security and Privacy
• IoT Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems
• Cyber Physical Security and IoT
• Secure Design Methodologies for IoT Systems
• Secure Hardware and Software Codesign
• Development of Secure Embedded Systems
• Secure Embedded Operation Systems
• IoT Malware
• Autonomous Vehicles Cybersecurity
• Secure Network Protocols for IoT Systems
• IoT and Blockchain
• Secure Manufacturing Process of IoT Devices
• Privacy Protection in IoT Environments
• Security and Privacy of Medical Devices
• IoT Trust and Reliability
• Reliable Robotic Devices

Committees

Program Committee

• Athanasios Kakarountas (University of Thessaly, Greece)
• Vasileios Vlachos  (University of  Thessaly, Greece)
• Periklis Chatzimisios (International Hellenic University, Greece)
• Leandros Maglaras (Napier University, Scotland)

Organizing committee

• Apostolos Xenakis (University of Thessaly, Greece)
• Dimitrios Kosmanos (University of Thessaly, Greece)
• Dimitrios Schoinianakis (Nokia Bell Labs, Germany)
• Georgios Spathoulas (University of Thessaly, Greece)
• George Stergiopoulos (University of the Aegean, Greece)
• Nestoras Chouliaras (University of West of Attica, Greece)
• Tiago Cruz (University of Coimbra, Portugal)

Publication

Selected papers of the workshop will be published in an extended version in a Special Issue of Discover Internet of Things journal (Springer)

Selected best papers will be published in MDPI Computers Journal (free of charge). In addition, a SecRIoT Best Paper Award, consisting of 300 CHF sponsored by MDPI Computers Journal, will be awarded to the most innovative and challenging paper of the SecRIoT, recognizing promising research towards IoT security.

Venue

The conference is co-located with DCOSS-IoT 2023

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to Ms. Kyriaki Chantzi.