ACM Cloud Computing Security Workshop

The CCSW workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners in all security aspects of cloud-centric and outsourced computing, including:

Secure cloud resource virtualization mechanisms
Secure data management outsourcing
Practical privacy and integrity mechanisms for outsourcing
Foundations of cloud-centric threat models
Secure computation outsourcing
Remote attestation mechanisms in clouds
Sandboxing and VM-based enforcements
Trust and policy management in clouds
Secure identity management mechanisms
New cloud-aware web service security paradigms and mechanisms
Cloud-centric regulatory compliance issues and mechanisms
Business and security risk models and clouds
Cost and usability models and their interaction with security in clouds
Scalability of security in global-size clouds
Trusted computing technology and clouds
Binary analysis of software for remote attestation and cloud protection
Network security (DOS, IDS etc.) mechanisms for cloud contexts
Security for emerging cloud programming models
Cloud based side-channel attacks and countermeasures
Applied cryptographic schemes and protocols for the cloud

We would like to especially encourage novel paradigms and controversial ideas that are not on the above list. The workshop is to act as a fertile ground for creative debate and interaction in security-sensitive areas of computing impacted by clouds.

Programme

To be announced.

Important Dates

Submissions due: June 24, 2025 AoE

Author notification: August 8, 2025 AoE

Camera-ready: August 22, 2025

Workshop: October 17, 2025

Submissions

Submit your paper here.

CCSW is soliciting full papers of up to 12 pages which will be judged based on the quality and not on their length. Thus, high-quality papers are encouraged even with smaller than 12 pages length. Submissions must be single PDF files, no more than 12 pages long in double-column ACM format (the sigconf template from https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template, with a simpler version at https://github.com/acmccs/format), excluding the bibliography, well-marked appendices, and supplementary material. Note that reviewers are not required to read the appendices or any supplementary material. Authors should not change the font or the margins of the ACM format. Submissions not following the required format may be rejected without review. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. Accepted papers will be published by the ACM Press and/or the ACM Digital Library.

Submissions must be anonymous, and authors should refer to their previous work in the third-person. Submissions must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Each accepted paper must be presented by one registered author. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk immediate rejection. For questions about these policies, please contact the chairs.

Proposals for panels are also solicited. The proposals are to be concise, up to 2 pages in length (at least 10 point font, two columns), describe the handled topics, name potential panelists and briefly scope the panel for CCSW. Disruptive and controversial panels are particularly encouraged.

PC Chairs

Paolo Palmieri, University College Cork, Ireland

Shivam Bhasin, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Programme Committee

Alessandro Brighente, University of Padua
Anupam Chattopadhyay, Nanyang Technological University
Apostolos Fournaris, Industrial Systems Institute/Research Center ATHENA
Chenglu Jin, CWI Amsterdam
Dimitrios Papadopoulos, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Erik-Oliver Blass, Airbus
Fei Chen, Shenzhen University
Francesco Regazzoni, University of Amsterdam and Università della Svizzera italiana
Giorgos Vasiliadis, Hellenic Mediterranean University and FORTH
Guoxing Chen, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Hoda Maleki, Augusta University
Mayank Varia, Boston University
Michael Zohner, Hochschule Fulda
Sean Smith, Dartmouth College
Sikhar Patranabis, IBM
Trevor E. Carlson, National University of Singapore

Steering Committee

Srdjan Capkun, ETH Zurich
Emiliano De Cristofaro, University College London
Marten van Dijk, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica
Kristin Lauter, Meta
Radu Sion, Stony Brook University
Yinqian Zhang, Southern University of Science and Technology (chair)

Previous Workshops

2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 2024.