The International Symposium on Foundations & Practice of Security (FPS – 2025) will be held in November 25-27th at Brest, France, as an in-person physical event.

The aim of the FPS symposium is to discuss and exchange theoretical and practical ideas that address privacy, security and cyber resilience issues in interconnected systems. Moreover, it aims to provide scientific presentations as well as to promote scientific collaborations, joint research programs, and student exchanges between institutions involved in this fast-moving field. For the 18th edition, special care will be given to AI-based innovation and applications to transports systems and critical infrastructures.

Both researchers and practitioners are invited to submit their original papers spanning the full range of theoretical and applied work including user research, methods, tools, simulations, demos, and practical evaluations. Researchers must submit their research papers to the conference's regular track.

This year, FPS 2025 is introducing an "industrial track", a track for work applied in real-world environments (simulation in an industrial information system, field experience feedback, etc.) and which therefore involves at least one industrial partner.

Submission Guidelines

Both researchers and practitioners are invited to submit their original papers spanning the full range of theoretical and applied work including user research, methods, tools, simulations, demos, and practical evaluations.

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

• Full papers describing completed research with substantial results, including methodology, experimentation, and analysis.
• Posters describing work in progress, preliminary findings, or innovative ideas that may benefit from discussion and feedback.

List of Topics

The topics of interest include but are not limited to (alphabetically ordered): 

• Access control 
• Adversarial attacks to automated cyber defense 
• AI for cybersecurity and cybersecurity for AI 
• Behavioral cybersecurity and privacy 
• Blockchain-based systems security and security services 
• Code reverse engineering and vulnerability exploitation 
• Computer and network security 
• Cryptography and cryptanalysis 
• Data security 
• Digital Currencies 
• Ethical and social implications of privacy and security 
• Fake news detection 
• Governance and Risk Management for security, privacy and cyber resilience 
• Hardware security 
• Human factors
• Identity management and protection 
• IoT security and privacy 
• Malware, botnet, and advanced persistent threats 
• Open-source intelligence cybersecurity  
• Privacy and privacy enhancing technologies 
• Privacy and security awareness 
• Security and privacy management and policies 
• Security and Privacy of AI 
• Security of cloud, grid, and edge computing  
• Security of continuum IoT-edge-Cloud  
• Security of distributed embedded middleware 
• Security of service-oriented architectures 
• Security, privacy, and trust of industrial systems 
• Side-channel and physical attacks 
• Software security 
• Systems forensics and cybercrime 
• Threat analysis and trust management 
• User centric security
• Web Security and Privacy 

Committees

General Chairs

Steering commitee

• Frédéric Cuppens, Polytechnique Montréal
• Nora Cuppens-Boulahia, Polytechnique Montréal
• Mourad Debbabi, Concordia University, Canada
• Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Institut Polytechnique de Paris
• Evangelos Kranakis, Carleton University, Canada
• Pascal Lafourcade, LIMOS – University Clermont Auvergne
• Jean-Yves Marion, LORIA – Université de Lorraine
• Rei Safavi-Naini, University of Calgary, Canada
• Nadia Tawbi, Laval University, Canada

Local Organizing Chair

• Yvon Kermarrec, IMT Atlantique, France

Publication Chair

Publicity Chairs

Program commitee chairs

Program committee

• Furkan Alaca, Queen’s University, Canada
• Abdelmalek Benzekri, Université Toulouse 3 Paul Sabatier, France
• Jeremy Buisson, Ecole de l’Air, France
• Ana-Rosa Cavalli, Institut Mines-Telecom/Telecom Sud Paris, France
• Yannick Chevalier, Université Toulouse 3, France
• Alina Dulipovici, HEC Montréal, Canada
• Benoit Dupont, Université de Montréal, Canada
• Sébastien Gambs, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
• Li Huang, University at Albany, United States
• Abdessamad Imine, LORIA-INRIA Lorraine, France
• Padmavathi Iyer, University at Albany, United States
• Jason Jaskolka, Carleton University, United States
• Guy-Vincent Jourdan, University of Ottawa, Canada
• Hyougshick Kim, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea
• Hyunhjoon Koo, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea
• Achin Kulshrestha, Google, Canada
• Pascal Lafourcade,  LIMOS – University Clermont Auvergne, France
• Maryline Laurent, Institut Mines-Telecom, France
• Luigi Logrippo, Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada
• Wissam Mallouli, Montimage, Paris, France
• Daiki Miyahara, University of Electro-Communications, Japan
• Mohamed Mosbah, LaBRI – University of Bordeaux, Canada
• Omer Landry Nguena Timo, Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada
• Huu Nghia Nguyen, Montimge, Paris
• Mnah-Dung Nguyen, Montimage, Paris
• Mawloud Omar, Université Bretagne Sud, France
• Isabel Praça, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugual
• Khosro Salmani,  Mount Royal University, Canada
• Florence Sèdes, IRIT – University Toulouse III Paul Sabatier, France
• Renaud Sirdey, Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique, France
• Sadegh Torabi, Concordia University, Canada 
• Johanne Vincent,  IMT Atlantique, France
• Nicola Zannone, The Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
• Sylvain Leblanc, Royal Military College of Canada, Canada
• Kacem Thabet, University of the District of Columbia, United States
• Kobra Khanmohammadi, Concordia University, Canada
• Alan Davoust, Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada
• Paliath Narendran, University of Albany, United States

Venue

The conference will be held in Brest, France, on November 25-27, 2025.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to fps-submission@imt-atlantique.fr