Call for Papers   Call for Participation   Program Schedule   Conference Photos

Traditionally, security in software has been thought to be something that can be easily added on as a patch, post-development, and sometimes even after the deployment of the software. According to the US-Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT), "most successful attacks result from targeting and exploiting known, non-patched software vulnerabilities and insecure software configurations, many of which are introduced during design and code." Hence, it is imperative that secure design, coding and testing principles as well as deployment and maintenance are thoroughly embedded in the software development lifecycle. At the same time, software security is very inter-disciplinary, as software is being developed for a variety of applications - web, Internet, database, single and distributed computer systems, etc.

In the above context, the First International Conference on Software Security brings together researchers, faculty, students and industry professionals who are experts in different domains of computer and information security, but all leading to the design, development, deployment and maintenance of secure software. We invite papers that are both theoretical as well as practical in nature, from both academia and industry. Some of the topics of interest (but not limited to) are:

Topics of interest include but are not limited to, the following

  • Secure Software Development Lifecycle
  • Principles and Models for Secure Software Design
  • Secure Coding Standards and their Implementation
  • Software Security for Wireless and Mobile Applications
  • Software Security for Database Systems
  • Software Security for Web and Internet Applications
  • Security of Open Source Software
  • Software Threats and Vulnerabilities
  • Risk Analysis for Software Security
  • Software Security Attacks and Solutions
  • Static and Dynamic Code Analysis for Software Security
  • Validation, Verification and Testing for Software Security
  • Virtualization and Cloud Computing for Software Security
  • Cryptography for Software Security
  • Firewalls and Intrusion Detection/Prevention Systems for Software Security
  • Software Penetration and Protection
  • Measurements and Metrics for Software Security

Papers must be of high quality, unpublished, and currently not accepted or under review by another conference, workshop, or journal.

Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit papers through the Conference Submission System by July 07, 2015. Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously or be under consideration for publication while being evaluated for this conference. The proceedings of the conference will be published by Computer Science Conference Proceedings in Computer Science & Information Technology (CS & IT) series (Confirmed).

Hard copy of the Proceedings will be distributed during the Conference. The soft Copy will be available on AIRCC Digital Library.

Selected papers from ICSS 2015, after further revisions,will be published in the special issue of the following journal.

Important Dates

Second Batch : (Submissions after May 09, 2015)

Submission Deadline  : July 07, 2015
Authors Notification  : July 20, 2015
Registration &
Camera-Ready Paper Due : July 22, 2015

First Batch

Submission Deadline  : May 09, 2015
Authors Notification  : June 10, 2015
Registration &
Camera-Ready Paper Due : June 15, 2015