WISE 2025 Paper Deadline Extended to 14 Feb 2025

[Matt Bishop]

[Note extension to paper submission deadline to 14 February 2025]

CALL FOR PAPERS

WISE2025 -- The 17th World Conference on Information Security Education

21st to 23rd May 2025 in Maribor, Slovenia

Hosted by IFIP TC-11 WG 11.8 (Information Security Education) in
conjunction with the 40th IFIP TC-11 SEC 2025 International Conference
on Information Security and Privacy Protection

The conference is planned as an ON-SITE event as on the SEC website
https://sec2025.um.si/


The IFIP Working Group 11.8 - Information Security Education will hold
the 17th World Conference on Information Security Education (WISE2025)
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 and potential working group topics. 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.


The theme for WISE2025 is "Empowering People through Information
Security Education". We solicit submissions on all relevant topics
including, but not limited to:

* Cyber Resilience for nations and Citizens
* Emerging Trends 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 Defence Training
* Information Security Professionals
* Computer Forensics and the Law
* Critical Information Infrastructure Security
* Secure e-Banking and e-Commerce
* The Internet of Things Security-Related
* Financial and Economic Security-Related
* 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

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

* Paper submissions should follow the guidelines for full paper
submission using the template that can be found at
https://www.ifiptc11.org/wg118-wise#authors-guideline. Submit papers at
https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/WISE2025. The submissions for
WISE2025 will be reviewed separately from IFIP SEC 2025. 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 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.
Accepted papers will be published in the WISE2025 conference proceedings
under the IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
Series by Springer (with ISBN and indexed in Scopus) and distributed at
the conference.

* Submissions for working group topics should describe in no more than
500 words the topic of the working group, its relevance to IFIP TC11
WG11.8, the goals to be achieved during WISE, and the plans for
continued collaboration after WISE.

Important Dates

Deadline for submission of full papers and working group abstracts: 14
February 2025 *** NOTE EXTENSION ***
Notification of acceptance: 14 March 2025 *** NOTE EXTENSION ***
Delivery of camera-ready papers by authors: 28 March 2025 *** NOTE
EXTENSION ***

WISE conference chair: Jacques Ophoff
WISE program chairs: Lynette Drevin and Erik Moore
WISE publications/logistics chairs: Sune von Solms and Grace Leung
WISE web chair: Jacques Ophoff

Conference Secretariat:
Matt Bishop, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA 95616 USA
Email: mabi...@ucdavis.edu Telephone: +1 530 752 8060 Fax: +1 530 752 4767