CyCon 2018 submissions can address topics such as:

• Cyberspace governance

• The role of international organisations in cyber security

• The changing role of states in cyberspace

• The evolution of the Internet of Things and its implications

• Norms and standards to enhance security in cyberspace

• The new generation of national cyber security strategies

• Cross-border dependencies, trans-border access to data

• The nature of current and future cyber attacks

• Non-state actors

• State-sponsored operations in cyberspace (incl. APTs and proxy actors)

• Military doctrine development, cyberspace as a domain of warfare

• Offence, defence and deterrence in cyberspace; active/responsive cyber defence

• Cyber capabilities, forces and weapons

• Autonomous cyber weapon systems

• Cyber terrorism

• Vulnerability disclosure

• Cyber-physical systems security

• Critical infrastructure protection (incl. data diode, IDS, industrial protocols and smart grids)

• Malware and botnets

• Hardware and software vulnerability mitigation

• Blockchain

• Future applications of quantum computing

• Big data, cloud and mobile computing security

• Artificial intelligence and cognitive cyber security (incl. data mining and machine learning)

• Cyber threat intelligence

• Situational awareness and security metrics (incl. security visualization)

• Attribution and digital forensics

• Digital trust and authentication