The SHIELD 2025 workshop aims to address the critical challenges and evolving landscape of healthcare security. In an era of rapid digital transformation, healthcare organizations face unprecedented cybersecurity threats that could compromise patient data, disrupt critical services, and undermine trust in healthcare systems. Moreover, the protection of healthcare data is crucial due to its sensitive nature. Data breaches can have serious consequences for patient privacy, and system administrators are responsible for implementing adequate security measures. If these measures are insufficient, they may face civil liability, with significant financial penalties, as well as criminal liability for negligence or unauthorized access to data. This workshop will bring together researchers, practitioners, and industry experts to explore cutting-edge strategies, technologies, and best practices for safeguarding healthcare infrastructure, protecting patient privacy, and ensuring the integrity of medical data. 

Potential topics for the workshop could include but non are limited to:

• Regulatory compliance and legal frameworks in privacy and healthcare security
• Technical, legal, and organizational requirements for health data protection
• Emerging cybersecurity threats specific to the healthcare sector
• Advanced encryption techniques for protecting patient data
• AI and machine learning applications in healthcare security
• Secure interoperability and data sharing in healthcare ecosystems
• Incident response and disaster recovery planning for healthcare organizations
• Ethical considerations in healthcare cybersecurity

Submission Guidelines

Two kinds of submissions are solicited:

• Original, unpublished contributions that will be included in an open-access post-proceeding volume of CEUR Workshop Proceedings, indexed by both Scopus and DBLP;
• Already published or preliminary work that will not be included in the post-proceedings volume.

Authors are requested to clearly indicate whether they would like to have their paper included in the proceedings volume.

Submissions are single-blind and may indicate the names and affiliations of the authors.

Papers must be in English and not longer than 10 pages, excluding bibliography.

Extra material exceeding the page limit can be included in an appendix of at most 4 pages

Authors are invited to submit their manuscripts in PDF via the EasyChair system at the link:

• https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=shielditasec25

Manuscripts should be formatted using the CEUR-ART style available at the link:

• https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html

Committees

Program Committee

• Giulio Mallardi, University of Bari Aldo Moro
• Fabio Calefato, University of Bari Aldo Moro
• Sabato Mellone, University of Bologna

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to shieldworkshop@gmail.com