Advancing Automotive Cybersecurity for the Next Generation of Mobility

Secure Our Streets 2025 invites submissions of cutting-edge research, practical case studies, and forward-looking discussions on the latest advancements in automotive security and privacy. This year, we aim to highlight the evolving landscape of vehicle security, cybersecurity integration, digital transformation, and regulatory challenges, while fostering discussions on both traditional and emerging cybersecurity domains.

We welcome contributions that explore technological innovations, policy implementation, methodologies, real-world use cases, organizational strategies, challenges, and future directions. The conference serves as a platform for professionals from across the automotive ecosystem, including OEMs, suppliers, cybersecurity researchers, regulators, and industry leaders, to share insights, best practices, and lessons learned.

Topics of Interest Include, But Are Not Limited To:

Understanding the Evolving Global Cybersecurity Compliance Landscape: Emerging Standards, Regulations, and Frameworks (e.g., ISO/SAE, JASPAR, China, NHTSA, AUTOSAR, ASPICE).

Privacy and Data Protection in Automotive Systems: Strategies for managing and enhancing user privacy and regulatory compliance.

Planes, Trains, Automobiles, and Beyond: Exploring cross-industry vehicle security challenges and solutions in Aerospace, Agriculture, Maritime, etc.

Smart Streets and Intelligent Transportation Systems: Cybersecurity and privacy challenges, including secure V2X, threat detection, data sharing, and resilience for connected vehicles and infrastructure.

Cybersecurity in Micro-Mobility & Motorcycles: Addressing security risks for electric scooters, motorcycles, and other micro-mobility solutions.

Software-Defined Vehicle (SDV): Cybersecurity challenges and solutions, including intrusion detection, virtualization security, resilient architectures, and protection for vehicle-to-cloud and in-vehicle communications.

Electric Vehicles (EV) and Electric Vehicle Supple Equipment (EVSE): Challenges and advanced solutions including threat modeling, intrusion detection, secure communication, and resilience.

Autonomous Vehicles & AI Security: Securing AI-driven automotive systems and mitigating adversarial AI risks (e.g., ADAS, automated cockpit assistants, voice-activated technology, heads-up display).

Aftermarket Cybersecurity Risks & Secondary Lifecycle Protection: Securing vehicles beyond their initial production lifecycle including right-to-repair, tuners, etc.

Addressing cybersecurity risks in automotive supply chains and manufacturing: Robust dependency management, threat monitoring, and risk mitigation as well as SBOM, HBOM, and CryptoBOM to provide transparency, identify vulnerabilities, and enable proactive threat detection and compliance.

Simulations and Testing for Automotive Cybersecurity: Advanced tools and methodologies including digital twins and testbeds for enhanced security testing and incident response.

Digital Forensics in Automotive: Emerging Challenges, Advanced Techniques, and Privacy Considerations for Secure Investigations

Automotive Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (IDPS): Next-generation IDPS solutions for detecting and preventing cyber threats.

Vehicle Security Operations Center (VSOC): Technical strategies for real-time threat monitoring, detection, and response across connected vehicle and software-defined vehicle ecosystems.

Beyond CAN: Cybersecurity challenges and solutions for next-generation in-vehicle networks beyond the CAN bus including Automotive Ethernet, LIN, CAN-FD, and other emerging architectures.

Future of Digital Identity Management: Enhancing identity management and secure access management in automotive ecosystems (e.g., cloud services, Phone-as-a-Key).

Key Management Systems (KMS): Practical approaches to managing and protecting cryptographic keys in connected vehicle production environments. 

Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC): Preparing automotive security systems for the post-quantum era (e.g., crypto agility).

Hardware security: Open-source based hardware security measures, RISC-V based security solution and technologies, future HSMs and crypto accelerator, hardware support for IDS, IDPS, and AI-based security solutions.  

Requirements

• Submissions must have a real name, no aliases.
• Disclosure presentations in which the affected companies have not been informed, will not be considered. The reason for this conference is not fame, but to inform.
• Submissions may only be entered by researchers/speakers (no submissions from PR firms/marketing representatives).
• Product or vendor-related pitches can only take place in Sponsor Booths.
• Submissions must clearly detail concepts, ideas, findings, and solutions a researcher or speaking team plans to present.
• Submissions that highlight new research, tools, vulnerabilities, etc. will be given priority.
• Submissions that include White Papers are highly encouraged and will also be given priority.
• Incomplete Submissions will not be considered.
• Individuals may submit more than one proposal, but each proposal must be submitted via a separate submission form.
• Each submission must include detailed biographies of the proposed speaking team.
• Submitters will be contacted directly if Review Board members have any questions about a submission.
• Presentations and videos will be published sometime after the conference unless the submitter requests specifically not to be published.
• To request work not to be published after the conference must be done at the time of submission or per email before the conference. Requests after the conference will not be considered.
• No video introductions or other video content which is not a demonstration or test case.

Video Recording

Since this conference is international and the worldwide infrastructure and scheduling issues can have an impact on the quality of the presented content at the conference, we require that all presentations be pre-recorded. Presentations can be also live, however, a pre-recorded video is still required.

Videos must be at least HD quality.

Key Deadlines:

• Paper Submission: 2 May 2025, 23:59 CEST
• Acceptance Notification: 16 June 2025
• Final Presentation Submission: 18 July 2025