2021 13th International Conference on Cyber Conflict (CyCon)

We invite original research that will offer technical, legal, policy or military perspectives on the above questions. We particularly welcome papers focusing on, but not limited to, the following substantive areas:

• The role of international organisations, states and non-state actors in cyber security
• The changing role of states in cyberspace
• Norms and standards to enhance security in cyberspace
• Frameworks for collaboration and information-sharing
• Cross-border dependencies, trans-border access to data
• Military doctrine development, cyberspace as a domain of warfare
• Critical information infrastructure and supply chain security
• Cyber security aspects of 5G technologies and military use of 5G technology
• Crisis management and military-civilian cooperation in cyberspace
• State-led cyber operations, offensive/defensive aspects
• Use of AI technology in state-led cyber operations and/or in crisis management
• Malign information campaigns in and through cyberspace
• Online education and new technologies for cyber exercises and cyber ranges
• Remote work and its cyber security implications
• International law responses to crisis situations
• Electronic surveillance in crisis management (national security/privacy implications)
• Due diligence and state responsibility for prevention of harm to other states
• Emergence of new norms in international law
• Internet of Things
• Vulnerability disclosure
• Cyber-physical systems security
• Critical infrastructure protection (incl. data diodes, IDS, industrial protocols and smart grids, 4G and 5G networks, traffic and transportation)
• Malwares and botnets
• Hardware and software vulnerability mitigation
• Attacks on blockchain, smart contracts and DApps
• Artificial intelligence and cognitive cyber security (incl. data mining and machine learning, and AI-supported cyber attacks)
• Artificial intelligence training
• Cyber threats against and in the space domain – cross-domain dependencies
• NATO’s cyber defence – emerging and disruptive threats; use of AI technology