SUNRISE 2025

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 centering on patient needs, 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
•Secure IT-OT for healthcare
•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
•Child (Mental) Health and Wellbeing

Important Dates

Paper Submission Guidelines

Submission Deadline: 25 September, 10, 25 October 2025
Author Notification: 18 24 October, 10 November 2025
Camera-ready versions: 26 October 17 November 2025
Workshop day: 24 November, 2025

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.

Previous Editions

Previous SUNRISE proceedings on SpringerLink, https://link.springer.com/conference/sunrise

2nd Workshop on SecUre aNd Resilient digItal tranSformation of healthcarE (SUNRISE) 2024

1st Workshop on SecUre aNd Resilient digItal tranSformation of healthcarE (SUNRISE) 2023

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, Télécom SudParis, France
Shouhuai Xu, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USA
Kai Rannenberg, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Ilangko Balasingham, Oslo University Hospital, Norway
Maryline Laurent, Télécom SudParis, France
Nesrin Kaaniche, Télécom SudParis, France
Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain
Martin Gilje Jaatun, University of Stavanger, Norway,
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
Ilias Gkotsis, Inlecom Innovation, Greece
Isabel Praça, GECAD/ISEP, Portugal
Aida Akbarzadeh, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Roufaida Laidi, Oslo University Hospital, Norway
Wolfgang Leister, Norwegian Computing Center, Norway
Ali Dehghantanha, University of Guelph, Canada
Vasileios Mavroeidis, University of Oslo, Norway
Reijo Savola, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Ali Hassan Sodhro, Kristianstad University, Sweden
Ankur Shukla, Institute for Energy Technology, Norway
Sabarathinam Chockalingam, Institute for Energy Technology, Norway
Muhammad Muzammal, Northumbria University, UK
Georgios Kavallieratos, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

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)