The 6th International Symposium for ICS & SCADA Cyber Security brings together researchers with an interest in the security of industrial control systems in the light of their increasing exposure to cyber-space. The topics of interests are broad, ranging from security for hardware/firmware used in industrial control systems, to system aspects of ICS such as secure architectures and vulnerability screening to the human aspects of cyber security such as behaviour modelling and training. ICS-CSR is a research conference aimed at high quality academic research in any of the specified themes and topics of interest. We welcome original contributions that present innovative ideas, proof of concepts, use cases, and results from a variety of domains with a wish to enhance the security of infrastructure.

Proceedings of the ICS-CSR are hosted by the British Computer Society (BCS) in their eWiC series. Proceedings are indexed in the ACM Digital Library, EBSCO, DBPL and Google Scholar.

This year's conference will take place on the 10th to 12th of September 2019 at University of Piraeus (Day 1) and the Ministry of Digital Policy, Telecommunications and Media (Days 2 and 3) in Athens, Greece.

As with previous editions, we will be inviting the best conference submissions to a special issue in Elsevier Journal of Information Security and Applications (JISA) and in EAI Transactions on Security and Safety. Papers will have to be significantly extended and will undergo an additional peer-review process before acceptance. The call for extended papers will be distributed at the conference.

• Previous ICS-CSR symposiums: Please look at our archive for previous editions: ICS-CSR 2013, ICS-CSR 2014, ICS-CSR 2015, ICS-CSR 2016, ICS-CSR 2018 and their proceedings 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2018.

ICS-CSR is welcoming contributions that have a direct application or relevance to security aspects of Distributed Control Systems (DCS), Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition Systems (SCADA), Industrial Control Systems (ICS), Cyber Physical Systems (CPS), Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), Smart City, or Industry 4.0.

This list of topics is not meant to be exhaustive; ICS-CSR is interested in all aspects of computer security relating to ICS. Papers without a clear application to SCADA, Embedded Systems or Industrial Control, however, will be considered out of scope and may be rejected without full review.

Main Conference Themes

Accepted Papers

...will be announced in due time.

Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 10 pages, including tables, figures, references and appendixes and follow the EWIC formatting guidelines: http://ewic.bcs.org/category/15364. Accepted papers will be published in conference proceedings and indexed in the ACM digital library.

All papers will be peer reviewed by members of the Programme Committee. Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be considered for publication in a special issue. The program committee will select a Best Paper Award winner for this conference. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work.

Submit your paper via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icscsr2019

Instructions for Short Positional Paper Submission:

We welcome the submission of short positional papers for poster presentation during the conference. Positional papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 4 pages, including tables, figures, references and appendixes and follow the EWIC formatting guidelines: http://ewic.bcs.org/category/15364. Accepted papers will be eligible for inclusion for presentation as a poster during the conference and selected papers will be included as an annex in the published conference proceedings. Submit your short positional paper via EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icscsr2019 and use the prefix "POSITIONAL" in the registration title.

Paper Submission Due:	May 31st, 2019 (23:59 CET) - extended
Acceptance Notification:	June 20th, 2016
Registration:	Now open!
Conference:	Workshop: September 10th, 2019, University of Piraeus	Conference: September 11th - September 12th, 2019, Ministry of Digital Policy, Athens

This year's keynotes will be held by Joanna Burkey and Sokratis K. Katsikas. Previous Keynote Speakers include John S. Baras (University of Maryland), John Matherly (Shodan), Stephan Luders (CERN), Eric Byres (Tofino, Belden), Thomas Brandstetter (Limes), Sally Levesley (New Risk), and Eeiran Leverett (Cambridge University).

Keynote: Joanna Burkey

Moving Beyond the Silos: Holistic Cybersecurity at Siemens
Global Head of Cyber Defense, Siemens AG
joanna.burkey@siemens.com

Joanna Burkey is the Global Head of Cyber Defense at Siemens AG. In this role, Joanna and her team have responsibility for cybersecurity defense across IT/OT infrastructure as well as products, solutions, and services. The Cyber Defense organization at Siemens includes Product CERT, Corporate CERT, and three global Cyber Defense Centers in China, Portugal and the USA.
Joanna has a computer science/engineering background from The University of Texas at Austin and Angelo State University and has focused on cyber security throughout her career. Her previous roles have included software engineering, product strategy, and security evangelism, and she worked at TippingPoint Technologies, 3COM, and Hewlett-Packard prior to Siemens. Before taking on her current role at Siemens she was the CISO for Region Americas with information security responsibility across North, Central and South America. She is currently based in Texas, USA, and Munich, Germany.
Siemens, based in Berlin and Munich, Germany, is a global company that focuses on manufacturing and electronics.

Keynote: Sokratis K. Katsikas

Security and resilience of the crewless ship
Center for Cyber and Information Security, Dept. of Information Security and Communication Technology,
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Gjøvik, Norway
sokratis.katsikas@ntnu.no

Sokratis K. Katsikas was born in Athens, Greece, in 1960. He received the Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the University of Patras, Patras, Greece in 1982, the Master of Science in Electrical & Computer Engineering degree from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, USA, in 1984 and the Ph.D. in Computer Engineering & Informatics from the University of Patras, Patras, Greece in 1987. He is a Professor with the Center for Cyber and Information Security, Department of Information Security and Communications, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway, and a Professor with the Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences of the Open University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus. His research interests lie in the areas of information and communication systems security and of estimation theory and its applications. His research activity over the past 30 years has resulted in the publication of 39 books; 35 book chapters; 86 journal publications (of which 9 invited); and 130 publications in conference proceedings (of which 30 invited). According to Googlescholar, his research work has been cited 3.085 times and his h-index is 27. He has participated in more than 60 funded national and international R&D projects in his areas of research interest. He is serving on the editorial board of several scientific journals, and has served on/chaired the technical programme committee of more than 600 international scientific conferences. He chairs the Steering Committee of the ESORICS Conferences.

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Details on Conference Locations

Ministry of Digital Policy, Telecommunications and Media
11, Fragoudi Str. and Al. Pandou
10163 Kalithea, Athens, Greece
Website: www.mindigital.gr
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Directions from Athens Airport to Ministry of Digital Governance

University of Piraeus
80, M. Karaoli and A. Dimitriou St.
18534 Piraeus, Greece
Website: www.ds.unipi.gr/en

Department of Digital Systems
150, Androutsou St.
18532 Piraeus, Greece
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Directions to University of Piraeus building for Workshops

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Grand Hyatt Athens
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General Conference Chairs

• Kevin Jones, Airbus, UK: kevin.jones@ics-csr.com
• Helge Janicke, De Montfort University, UK: helge.janicke@ics-csr.com
• Thomas Brandstetter, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Austria: thomas.brandstetter@ics-csr.com

Organising Chairs

• Leandros Maglaras, DeMontfort University: leandrosmag@gmail.com
• Adam Wedgbury, Airbus: adam.wedgbury@airbus.com
• Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus: xenakis@unipi.gr
• Richard Smith, DeMontfort University: rgs@dmu.ac.uk

Organising Committee

• Web Chair: Robert Luh (St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences): robert.luh@fhstp.ac.at
• Publication Chair: Leandros Maglaras (De Montfort Universtiy)
• Workshop Chair: Adam Wedgbury (Airbus), Joanne Barwick (DeMontfort University)

Special Session Chairs

• Ulrik Franke, (RISE SICS -- Swedish Institute of Computer Science): ulrik.franke@ri.se
• Paul Smith (AIT, Austria)
• Kieran McLaughlin (Queen's University Belfast, UK)

Technical Programme Committee (TPC)

• Ahmin Ahmed, University of Larbi Tebessi
• Jo Barwick, De Montfort University
• Jens Braband, Siemens AG
• Thomas Brandstetter, Limes Security / St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences
• Periklis Chatzimisios, Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki
• Tiago Cruz, University of Coimbra
• Abdelouahid Derhab, King Saud University
• George Drivas, University of Piraeus
• Christian Facchi, Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt
• José M. Fernandez, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
• Mohamed Amine Ferrag, Guelma University
• Patrick Francis, Airbus Defence and Space Limited
• Ulrik Franke, RISE
• Peter Fuhr, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College London
• Bela Genge, Petru Maior University of Tg Mures, Romania
• Dieter Gollmann, Hamburg University of Technology
• Piroska Haller, Petru Maior University
• Chris Hankin, Imperial College London
• David Hutchison, Lancaster University
• Sotiris Ioannidis, FORTH
• Chris Johnson, University of Glasgow
• Kevin Jones, Airbus Group
• Athanasios Kakarountas, University of Thessaly
• Christos Kalloniatis, Department of Cultural Technology and Communication, University of the Aegean
• Vasilios Katos, Bournemouth University
• Panayiotis Kotzanikolaou, University of Piraeus
• Antoine Lemay, École Polytechnique de Montréal
• Eireann Leverett, Concinnity Risks
• Shujun Li, University of Kent
• Robert Luh, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences
• Leandros Maglaras, De Montfort University
• Ioannis Mavridis, Department of Applied Informatics, University of Macedonia
• Peter Maynard, CSIT
• Kieran Mclaughlin, CSIT
• Edmundo Monteiro, University of Coimbra
• Thomas Morris, The University of Alabama in Huntsville
• Sotiris Moschoyiannis, University of Surrey
• Konstantinos Moulinos, European Network & Information Security Agency
• Mithun Mukherjee, Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology
• Robert Oates, Rolls-Royce
• Jules Ferdinand Pagna Disso, EADS
• Simon Parksinson, University of Huddersfield
• Stephan Reiff-Marganiec, Department of Computer Science, University of Leicester
• Michael Rossberg, Technische Universitaet Ilmenau
• Howard Shrobe, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Paulo Simoes, University of Coimbra
• Florian Skopik, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology
• Paul Smith, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology
• Richard Smith, De Montfort University
• Paul Smith, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology
• Adriano Valenzano, IEIIT/CNR
• Vasileios Vlachos, University of Thessaly
• Adam Wedgbury, Airbus Group
• Stephen D. Wolthusen, Royal Holloway, University of London
• Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus