The 1st International Workshop on Re-design Industrial Control Systems with Security (RICSS)

RICSS will take place on July 7, 2023, in Delft, Netherlands, co-located with IEEE EuroS&P 2023.

Industrial Control System (ICS) and its software touches every aspect of the critical infrastructure used by our industry, academia, and government. Back in the days, these systems and software were not designed with security in mind. With the ever expanding interconnectivity of ICS environments and new threats, practitioners are stuck on a patchwork of security. While certain proprietary ICS software manufacturers have started to provide security solutions, free and open source ICS software is often less known. The goal of the workshop is twofold: we want to collect ideas on redesigning (parts of) the ICS ecosystem so that security is built-in by design; we also invite contributions on designing, incorporating, and maintaining secure open-source ICS software.

All papers discussing ICS and its application security are solicited for submission. RICSS particularly welcomes position papers which propose provocative thoughts on how (parts of) the current ICS system could be re-envisioned for security. This includes proposals that may compromise today’s ICS reliability to improve its security tomorrow. We also welcome proposals discussing the challenges in designing, incorporating, and maintaining secure open-source ICS software.

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

• ICS, PLC, IIoT security mechanism design
• Secure ICS software development framework designs
• ICS/SCADA security testbed designs
• Security standard designs
• Risk management in open source ICS software
• Trust architecture in the open-source process
• Performance evaluation of security methods and tools in ICS
• Vulnerability analysis and risk management framework designs
• Digital forensics framework for ICS
• Intrusion detection and prevention solutions for ICS software
• Emerging threats to ICS

Submission Guidelines

For its first edition, RICSS workshop accepts three types of contributions. All papers must be written in English and the paper length should range from 4 to 8 pages using the IEEE conference proceeding template (excluding references and appendices). Reviewers are not required to read the appendices. Submissions must be in PDF format. Submissions are anonymous. It is the authors’ responsibility to ensure that their anonymity is preserved when citing their own work.

• Regular paper: Traditional research papers with novel contributions, should consist of a title, abstract, and brief motivation for and description of the idea. The paper can describe an ongoing research in various stages, or a novel idea or challenge, without proof-of-concept or preliminary results. The aim is to allow the authors to refine their ideas via the feedback from the workshop audience, to stimulate more research ideas, and to encourage collaborations. Submitted paper must be 4 to 8 pages, including all figures.

• Presentation of previously accepted papers: Authors of previously accepted papers (that are of interest to the workshop) can resubmit their papers to be able to present them in the workshop. For such contributions, there is no page limitation on the submission, and anonymization is not necessary.

Papers must be submitted at EasyChair and may be updated at any time until the submission deadline expires.

Committees

Workshop Co-Chairs

• Ruimin Sun,     Florida International University
• Mu Zhang,       University of Utah

Program Committee

• Ali Abbasi,        CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
• Aolin Ding,       Accenture
• Bo Chen,        Michigan Technological University
• Francesco Restuccia,  UC San Diego
• Habiba Farrukh,   Purdue University
• Indrakshi Ray,      Colorado State University
• Kemal Akkaya,     Florida International University
• Luis Garcia,        University of Southern California
• Marcus Botacin,     Texas A&M University
• Matthias Eckhart,     SBA Research and University of Vienna
• Michail Maniatakos,  New York University Abu Dhabi
• Ming Li,         University of Texas at Arlington
• Mohammad A. Islam, University of Texas at Arlington
• Neetesh Saxena,   Cardiff University
• Ozgur Ozmen,     Purdue University
• Qingzhao Zhang,   University of Michigan
• Saman Zonouz,     Georgia Tech
• Stefano Longari,    Politecnico di Milano
• Taegyu Kim,      Pennsylvania State University
• Tom Chothia,       University of Birmingham
• Yan Meng,       Shanghai Jiao Tong University
• Ziming Zhao,      University at Buffalo

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to the chairs.