The program will include invited talks and submitted papers in security-related areas such as:

• Cyber Security Management Systems (including regulation, standardization, certification, interoperability, connection to other management systems, UN ECE R155, ISO/SAE21434)

• Security Technologies for systems and subsystems (like automotive ECUs and subcomponents, in-vehicle networks, hardware security, OTA, access control, intrusion detection, monitoring, automotive SIEM, security functions, etc.)

• Offensive Security (car hacking, penetration testing, protocol analysis,automation, fuzzing, etc.)

• Security in Software-Defined Vehicles (incl. aspects of eco systems like changing value chains, continuous development, DevOps, applica-tion of new technologies)

• Architectures for securing specific vehicle applications and contexts (e.g., for highly-automated and autonomous vehicles, connected vehicles and V2X, electric vehicles and chrging infrastructure, big data analysis, backend and cloud infrastructures, domain controllers, vehicle computers, zero trust architectures, etc.)

• Automotive security engineering (like safety and security co-design, trust models and formal methods, development and validation tools,security (long-term) maintenance, security (credential and overall) management, incident handling and response, and security economics for the automotive domain, etc.)

• Secure and privacy-friendly use of AI and machine learning inautomotive contexts (e.g., generative AI, privacy-preserving machine learning, adversarial examples, security of automated driving mechanisms using AI)

• Future security technologies and their application to automotive systems (e.g., Post-Quantum Cryptography, Trusted Execution Environments, Privacy-Enhancing Technologies, etc.)

• Further automotive- and security-related topics (such as security usability, legal aspects, privacy and data protection, security for other transport systems like railway or aerospace, mobility services like robotaxis, etc.)

Instructions for paper submissions

Theoretical /scientific articles, case studies and descriptions of real-world experiences are all welcome. All submissions will be peer-reviewed. Two types of submissions are possible:

1. SCIENTIFIC TRACK:

A submission in this track may be up to 15 pages long. The paper should include new research results, case studies, or state-of-the-art reports. For a full paper, we expect a significant novelty and originality in the presented results which must not have been published previously. These papers will undergo a full peer-review and will be included in the proceedings of escar and will have a citable DOI. Opt-out of the DOI and online publication is possible, and copyright remains fully with the author. The use of the template found on the submission page is mandatory. Submissions must be anonymous with no identifying features on the submissions (such as author names and obvious references).

2. PRESENTATION AND TRACK INDUSTRY

This category is intended for contributions from industry, academia and other stakeholders with the primary goal of disseminating interesting content for the escar audience. This can also include previously published work that has already been presented at other conferences.The submission includes a PDF containing a two- to three-page description of the proposed presentation. The description should clearly highlight the content of the planned presentation and, in particular, its value to the escar community. Presentations should be content-focused and mere product or company presentations are discouraged. The use of the template found on the submission page is mandatory. Presentation abstracts will be part of the proceedings handed out at the conference but will not be published online. In this track submissions do not need to be anonymized.

For further information, please visit our website: https://escar.info/

Important dates

Submission deadline: May 10, 2026

Acceptance notification: August 3, 2026

Final paper due: August 31, 2026

Contact person

Marco Emke, Conference Manager

Mail: emke@is-its.org