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The World Conference on Information Security Education is co-located with IFIP SEC 2025 and will be held 21-23 May 2025 in Maribor, Slovenia.

Maribor, Slovenia

We are very excited to hold the 17th World Conference on Information Security Education, in conjunction with the 40th IFIP TC-11 International Information Security and Privacy Conference (IFIP SEC 2025). IFIP Working Group 11.8 (Information Security Education) invites you to contribute to their activities by submitting papers for presentation and working group topics.

To register for WISE, please complete registration for the IFIP TC-11 International Information Security and Privacy Conference (IFIP SEC 2025) at https://sec2025.um.si/.

Conference Theme

We solicit submissions on all relevant Information Security Education topics including, but not limited to:

Artificial Intelligence in Cybersecurity and/or Education
Cyber Resilience for Nations and Citizens
Emerging Trends, Technological Advances, and Holistic Approaches in Information Security Education
Serious Games or Gamification
Cybersecurity Mindset
Cyber Ranges and Research Laboratories
Upskilling and Lifelong Learning
Threat Intelligence
Cyber Ethics and Ethical Hacking
Cyber Defense Training
Information Security Professionals
Computer Forensics and the Law
Critical Information Infrastructure Security

Secure e-Banking and e-Commerce
The Internet of Things Security
Financial and Economic Security
New Programs in Security and Privacy Education
Experimental Information Security Education and Training
Information Security Curricula Guidelines
Evaluation of Security Programs
International Standards and Certifications
Professional Competencies in Security
Informing Citizens in Information Security and Programs to Raise Information Security Awareness
Information Security Education in Non-Academic Contexts
Online, Hybrid, and Automated Learning

Important Dates

Deadline for submission of full papers and working group abstracts: 31 January 2025

Notification of acceptance: 28 February 2025

Delivery of camera-ready papers by authors: 21 March 2025

Publication of Proceedings

The previous conference proceedings for the 2024 session are published at the Springer site for the WISE2024 proceedings: Information Security Education - Challenges in the Digital Age. For all other recent proceedings, look in the IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology Series by Springer (with ISBN and indexed in Scopus). Earlier conference proceedings (WISE11 and before) were published in the IFIP AICT series.

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Call for Papers

Please see the informaton below or download the Call for Papers here.

The 17th World Conference on Information Security Education (WISE2025) 21-23 May, 2025
IFIP TC-11 WG 11.8 - Information Security Education

In conjunction with the 40th IFIP TC-11 International Information Security and Privacy Conference (IFIP SEC 2025)

IFIP Working Group 11.8 - Information Security Education will hold the 17th World Conference on Information Security Education (WISE2025) in order to advance the state of computer security and information assurance education throughout the world. To that end, we invite practitioners, researchers, policy makers, and others from academia, industry, and government to submit papers for presentation and topics for working group discussions to WISE2025. We will organize the conference around paper presentations. All presentations and discussions will be in English.

WISE2025 will be held in conjunction with the 40th IFIP TC-11 International Conference on Information Security and Privacy Protection (IFIP SEC 2025). More information can be found on the WISE2025 (https://www.ifiptc11.org/wg118-wise) and IFIP SEC 2025 (https://sec2025.um.si/) websites.

Conference Theme

We solicit submissions on all relevant Information Security Education topics including, but not limited to:

Artificial Intelligence in Cybersecurity and/or Education
Cyber Resilience for Nations and Citizens
Emerging Trends, Technological Advances, and Holistic Approaches in Information Security Education
Serious Games or Gamification
Cybersecurity Mindset
Cyber Ranges and Research Laboratories
Upskilling and Lifelong Learning
Threat Intelligence
Cyber Ethics and Ethical Hacking
Cyber Defense Training
Information Security Professionals
Computer Forensics and the Law
Critical Information Infrastructure Security

Secure e-Banking and e-Commerce
The Internet of Things Security
Financial and Economic Security
New Programs in Security and Privacy Education
Experimental Information Security Education and Training
Information Security Curricula Guidelines
Evaluation of Security Programs
International Standards and Certifications
Professional Competencies in Security
Informing Citizens in Information Security and Programs to Raise Information Security Awareness
Information Security Education in Non-Academic Contexts
Online, Hybrid, and Automated Learning

Important Dates

Deadline for submission of full papers and working group abstracts: 31 January 2025

Notification of acceptance: 28 February 2025

Delivery of camera-ready papers by authors: 21 March 2025

The conference will feature general paper sessions and a working group session.

Paper submissions should follow the guidelines for full paper submission (initially without author or institution names) using the template that can be found when ready at:
https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines
Templates are available here:
Submitted at: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/WISE2025
The submissions for WISE will be reviewed separately from the IFIP TC-11 International Information Security and Privacy Conference. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Papers must be original work, not previously published, written in English, and at most 14 pages long including references and appendices. All submissions will be reviewed double blind and must be submitted in a full and blinded version (author and institution information removed). Submission instructions are available on the conference website. Acceptance will be based upon originality, contribution to the field, and relevance to the conference. Conference proceedings will be published under the IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology Series by Springer (with ISBN and indexed in Scopus).

Publication of Proceedings

The conference proceedings are now published under the IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology Series by Springer (with ISBN and indexed in Scopus).

Authors Guideline

Author Instructions for Full Papers

Papers submissions must be made through the paper submission site. Authors MUST remove personal and institutional identification information throughout the paper. Please email any questions to the Publications Chairs: Sune von Solms (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) or Grace Leung (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

Topics:

Please see the Call for Papers tab on this website or download the Call for Papers here for possible topic areas.

Formatting:

All papers must be written in English. Paper length for submission can be at most 14 pages long including reference and appendices, formatted according to:

Submitted papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted to another conference or journal for consideration.

Submission:

1. Papers must be submitted using the conference management site at: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/WISE2025

2. Submission and Acceptable Formats: Please submit your paper in either MS Word or PDF. Abstracts are not being accepted for review. Authors must submit full papers by the deadline for their papers to be considered. (For working group proposals, please submit the abstract in MS Word or PDF.)

3. Blind Review and Conflict of Interest

Blind Review: Authors MUST remove personal and institutional identification information throughout the paper. The workshop is using a double-blind review process. This means that the reviewers will not be aware who wrote the papers that they are reviewing and the review comments will be anonymous to the paper authors.

Conflict of Interest: A real or apparent conflict of interest (COI) exists when the author and reviewer have a mutual stake in the acceptance of the submission or in some fashion one has influence over the other. For some (not all-inclusive) examples, COIs exist when the author and reviewer are involved in:

- an advisoral relationship (one is or was on the other's dissertation committee).
- an employment relationship (one is the boss of the other).
- a contractual relationship (one controls the awarding of contracts to the other).
- a close personal relationship.
- a financial relationship.
- a current or very recent collaboration, co-authorship, or co-worker relationship.

Publication:

The conference proceedings will be published in the IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology Series by Springer (with ISBN and indexed in Scopus) in the same manner as WISE12 onwards. Earlier conference proceedings (WISE11 and before) were published in the IFIP AICT series.

Accepted Papers

Program Committee

Conference Chair: Jacques Ophoff
Program Chairs: Lynette Drevin and Erik Moore
Publications/Logistics Chairs: Sune von Solms and Grace Leung
Web Chair: Jacques Ophoff
Conference Secretariat: Matt Bishop

WISE Reviewers:
Maria Bada, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom
Matt Bishop, University of California, Davis, United States of America
Nathan Clarke, Centre for Security, Communication & Network Research, University of Plymouth, United Kingdom
Rasmus Dahlberg, Karlstad University, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Sweden
Jun Dai, California State University, Sacramento, United States of America
Lynette Drevin, North-West University, South Africa
Ludwig Englbrecht, University of Regensburg, Germany
Steven Furnell, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
Lynn Futcher, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa
Peter Hamm, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Ram Herkanaidu, Plymouth University, United Kingdom
Lech Janczewski, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
Christos Kalloniatis, Department of Cultural Technology and Communication-University of the Aegean, Greece
Sokratis Katsikas, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Konstantin Knorr, Trier University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Elmarie Kritzinger, University of South Africa, South Africa
Wai Sze Leung, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Dan Likarish, Regis University, United States of America
Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain
Herbert Mattord, Kennesaw State University, United States of America
Katerina Mavroeidi, University of the Aegean, Greece
Natalia Miloslavakaya, National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute), Russia
Stig Mjolsnes, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Erik Moore, Regis University, United States of America
Jacques Ophoff, Abertay University, United Kingdom
Gunther Pernul, Universität Regensburg, Germany
Tobias Pulls, Karlstad University, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Sweden
Kai Rannenberg, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Carlos Rieder, isec ag, Switzerland
Leo Robert, LIMOS, France
Daniel Schlette, University of Regensburg, Germany
Michael Schmid, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Rudi Serfontein, North-West University, South Africa
Chien-Chung Shen, University of Delaware, United States of America
Alireza Shojaifar, Institute for Interactive Technologies, FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland
Alexander Tolstoy, National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute), Russia
Manfred Vielberth, University of Regensburg, Germany
Susanne Wetzel, Stevens Institute of Technology, United States of America
Suzy Prior, Abertay University, United Kingdom

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