1st Workshop on SecUre aNd Resilient digItal tranSformation of healthcarE (SUNRISE) 2023
co-located with the 35th Norwegian ICT Conference for Research and Education (NIKT 2023), 27-30 November 2023, University of Stavanger, Norway
The workshop is supported by the International Alliance for Strengthening Cybersecurity and Privacy in Healthcare (CybAlliance) project, the Center for Research-based Innovation (SFI) Norwegian Center for Cybersecurity in Critical Sectors (NORCICS) project, and the AI-Based Scenario Management for Cyber Range Training (ASCERT) project.
SCOPES and TOPICS
Digital transformation in healthcare is the leveraging of advanced technologies to improving the delivery of care to patients and to coping with new requirements of such delivery, most notably the shift from hospital care to home care. While patient-needs-centric, it also necessarily requires changes and improvements of healthcare-related processes. Whereas various benefits of this transformation are broadly acknowledged, the increased connectivity; the huge volume of -sensitive- health information; and the lack of sufficient cybersecurity awareness and culture among both healthcare professionals and patients result in increased cybersecurity risk and make digital healthcare attractive to cyber criminals and prone to cybersecurity attacks such as phishing, ransomware, distributed denial-of-service attacks, and malware. The increasing connection of medical devices to the Internet, hospital networks and other medical devices expands the attack surface making the patient safety risks higher. The recent COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the interdependence and co-evolutionary dynamic of the cybersecurity and privacy risks in healthcare. All these have raised the need to develop new solutions to increase the cybersecurity and resilience of the healthcare sector and its supply chain.
The workshop “Secure and Resilient Digital Transformation of Healthcare” will provide a discussion platform for researchers in the field and an opportunity to share novel research on the topic. The target audience also includes healthcare professionals and managers of healthcare organizations.
Topics of Interest
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
•Healthcare application security and privacy
•Healthcare supply chain security and data provenance
•Human factors in the secure digital transformation of healthcare
•Cybersecurity of medical devices
•Health information systems security and privacy
•Internet of medical things (IoMT) security and privacy
•Securing AI in medical devices and healthcare applications
•Security and privacy for wearable and implantable medical devices
•Digital Transformation Risk Management
•Health systems digital resilience
•Education & awareness on cybersecurity and privacy in healthcare
Important Dates
Submission Deadline: Friday, 22 September
Author Notification: Friday, 6 October
Camera-ready versions: Friday, 20 October
Workshop day: Thursday, 30 November
Paper Submission Guidelines
Submissions are to be made to the submission web site in pdf format. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register and present their work at the workshop; otherwise the paper will not be included in the proceedings.
Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that have been simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Submissions should be at most 12-15+ pages long (full paper), or 6-11 pages (short paper) including the bibliography and appendices and should follow the CCIS style.
Pre-proceedings will be made available at the workshop. Accepted conference papers are planned to be published by Springer in the CCIS collection.
Organizing Committee
Workhsop Organizers
Habtamu Abie,
Norwegian Computing Center, Norway.
Vasileios Gkioulos,
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Sokratis Katsikas,
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway.
Sandeep Pirbhulal,
Norwegian Computing Center, Oslo, Norway.
Program Committee (Tentative)
Dieter Gollmann, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany
Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Telecom SudParis, France
Shouhuai Xu, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, USA
Kai Rannenberg, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Ilangko Balasingham, Oslo University Hospital, Norway
Maryline Laurent, Telecom SudParis, France
Nesrin Kaaniche, Telecom SudParis, France
Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain
Martin Gilje Jaatun, University of Stavanger, Norway,
Audun Stolpe, Norwegian Computing Center, Norway
Mauro Conti, University of Padua, Italy
Fabio Martinelli, IIT-CNR, Italy
Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus, Greece
Mohsen Toorani, University of South-Eastern Norway, Norway
Aida Omerovic, SINTEF, Norway
Hervé Debar, Télécom SudParis, France
Manos Athanatos, Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas, Crete
Sofia Tsekeridou, INTRASOFT International, Greece
Ilias Gkotsis, Satways Ltd, Greece
Isabel Praça, GECAD/ISEP, Portugal
Aida Akbarzadeh, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Maria Tsirigoti, Institute of Communication and Computer Systems, Greece
Laidi Roufaida, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Ali Dehghantanha, University of Guelph, Canada
Vasileios Mavroeidis, University of Oslo, Norway
Reijo Savola, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Contact us
Habtamu Abie (habtamu.abie@nr.no)
Vasileios Gkioulos (vasileios.gkioulos@ntnu.no)
Sokratis Katsikas (sokratis.katsikas@ntnu.no)
Sandeep Pirbhulal (sandeep@nr.no)
International Alliance for Strengthening Cybersecurity and Privacy in Healthcare(Cyballiance) 