We are thrilled to announce the 2^nd Cyber Security in Cars Workshop (CSCS) — a premier event dedicated to tackling the evolving challenges of cybersecurity in modern vehicles. CSCS brings together researchers, industry experts, developers, and security professionals to explore cutting-edge research, discuss emerging threats, and collaborate on innovative solutions in automotive cybersecurity.

We are currently planning for the next edition of CSCS to be once again hosted at ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), though this is not yet confirmed. Stay tuned — more details, including the Call for Papers, will be available in April!

Building on the legacy of the ACM Computer Science in Cars Symposium, CSCS continues to advance the field, fostering discussions that bridge academia and industry.

We also want to extend a huge thank you to everyone who contributed to making the 1^st CSCS at ACM CCS a resounding success! Your research, insights, and participation helped create a vibrant and inspiring event, and we look forward to building on that momentum.

Timeline

Important: The timeline is preliminary and subject to change pending the acceptance of the workshop at ACM CCS. The final decision on whether the workshop will take place will be announced on the 18th of April.

Workshop Announcement Official announcement of the CSCS Workshop at ACM CCS 2025, including details on topics, submission guidelines, and important dates.
Deadline for Paper Submission Final date for researchers to submit their papers for consideration at the workshop. Anywhere-on-Earth time
Author Notification Authors will be informed about the acceptance status of their submissions, along with reviewer feedback for potential revisions.
Deadline for Camera-ready Submission Accepted papers must be finalized and submitted in their camera-ready format, ensuring they meet formatting and quality requirements.
Conference Dates The ACM CCS 2025 conference takes place, including the CSCS Workshop, where accepted papers will be presented and discussed among researchers and practitioners.

Call for Papers

CSCS brings together researchers, practitioners, developers, and anyone interested in solving the myriad complex problems of cyber security in modern vehicles. The conference offers a common platform to discuss new developments in vehicle technology and its applications. In addition to presenting current research contributions, the conference offers the opportunity for networking, joint brainstorming on current challenges and the development of new solutions. Cyber Security for Vehicles is a very important research area due to the current drive to make vehicles fully autonomous and increasingly connected. Software systems running on Electronic Control Units (ECU) and High-Performance Computers (HPC) handle a wide spectrum of functions ranging from autonomous/assisted/cooperative driving over infotainment to integrated intelligent assistants.

However, vehicles’ associated connectivity must be secured against attackers, as successful attacks can have devastating effects. The threat surface is getting even more complex especially with the pervasive use of artificial intelligence in many central components.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Security of Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Driving Systems
Novel defenses enabled by Artificial Intelligence
New threats due to integration of Artificial Intelligence in vehicles
AI-enabled attacks on vehicles and infrastructures (e.g. exploits, red teaming)
Opportunity and risk due to emergent GenAI technologies
Secure in-vehicle communication (e.g., CAN, Automotive Ethernet, FlexRay)
Security of Automotive protocols (e.g., diagnostics)
Secure external communication (e.g., V2X, Internet) and protocols (e.g., secure remote update)
System security of Electronic Control Units, gateways etc. (e.g., hardware security, OS security)
Automotive security standardization, secure software development, security engineering, security testing
Automotive security monitoring (e.g., IDS, IPS, SIEM, SOC)
Automotive forensics and accident research
Privacy-enhancing technologies and mechanisms for automotive applications
Piracy, product counterfeit, and theft protection (e.g., RKE, Immobilizer)
Practical security evaluations / penetration testing
Interaction of safety and security
Security for electric mobility and the charging infrastructure
Usable security in vehicles and other human factors
Security of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)
Security for non-car vehicles and their respective eco-systems: trucks, busses, motorcycles, special vehicles, snow cars, quads, e-bikes

Submissions

We are looking for papers with high quality, original and unpublished contributions of twelve pages (without references). Note that reviewers are not required to read appendices or any supplementary material. The review process is double-blind. Submissions have to be anonymized.

All papers must be formatted in the double-column ACM format and submitted via the submission system. Authors should not change the font or the margins of the ACM format. Submissions not following the required format may be rejected without review.

Our submission platform will be available in May.

Committee

General Chair

Hans-Joachim Hof

Technical University of Ingolstadt, Germany

Hans-Joachim Hof is full professor and vice president of Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt, Germany. He leads the research group „Security in Mobility“ in the CARISSMA Institute of Electric, Connected, and Secure Mobility (C-ECOS). His research focus is on the security testing of vehicles as well as on secure automotive software. Previously, Hans-Joachim was a full professor at the Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany and research scientist at Corporate Technology of Siemens AG, Germany. He holds a PhD from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. Hans-Joachim is a member of the board of the German Chapter of the ACM and of the German national computer science association (Gesellschaft für Informatik).

Program Co-Chairs

Mario Fritz

CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Germany

Mario Fritz is faculty member at the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Saarbruecken, Germany and professor at the Saarland University. Previously, he was senior researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics and post-doc at UC Berkeley and the International Computer Science Institute on a Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. His research focus is at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning with Security & Privacy. His recent work focuses on Deep Learning techniques that allow end-to-end training of complex and multi-modal approaches. He has over 90 publications - 50 in top venues. His key contributions include work on visual domain adaptation, latent factor models, the Visual Turing Test, privacy in visual data, and attack as well as defenses for machine learning models. He has served as area chair for ECCV and ICCV, is associate editor of TPAMI and is member of the ACM Europe Technology Policy Committee.

Christoph Krauß

Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences and INCYDE GmbH

Christoph Krauß is full professor for Network Security at the Department of Computer Science at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences (HDA) and Head of Automotive Security Research at INCYDE GmbH, which he co-founded. At HDA, he is the spokesperson of the IT Security Expert Group, head of the research group Applied Cyber Security Darmstadt (ACSD), and member of the inter-university PhD Center for Applied Computer Science PZAI. At INCYDE, he coordinates the research activities and research projects of the automotive sector. He has over 15 years of experience in the area of cyber security. Currently, his fields of interest and activities are focused on automotive security and privacy, railway security, intelligent energy networks security, trusted computing, network security, efficient and post quantum cryptography, and security engineering.

Web Chairs and Local Organization Chairs

Dominik Bayerl, Technical University of Ingolstadt, Germany
Timm Lauser, Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, Germany