The 6th International Conference on Software Security and Assurance (ICSSA) will be held via Zoom virtually.

Software security is gaining increasingly more attention from the computer security community. Although many attempts have been made to improve software security over the years, traditional software security research has relied too heavily on the tools and techniques focusing on testing (e.g., static analysis). We believe that the scope of software security and assurance is much broader than these limited research areas.

Our conference provides a chance for academic and industry professionals to discuss recent progress in the area of software security and assurance and to explore various facets of software security and assurance, which have not been thoroughly studied yet. The conference will feature:

• Technical papers,
• Invited talks and panel sessions, and
• Lightning talks and demos.

TOPICS OF INTEREST ARE (BUT NOT LIMITED TO):

• Secure software design/architecture
• Secure software practices
• Security requirements engineering
• Security analysis tools and methods
• Security evaluation criteria and methodology
• Security education and training
• Vulnerability, threat, and risk analysis
• Malware detection/intrusion detection
• Obfuscation and software security
• Usability of secure/security software
• Security awareness for software developers

Important Dates:

Submission Deadline: August 31st
Author Notification: September 21st
Author Registration: Open since July 6th
Proceedings (camera-ready version): October 23rd
Conference: October 28th - 30th

Point of Contact:
Dr. Syed Rizvi or Dr. Jungwoo Ryoo
Department of Information Sciences and Technology (IST), Penn State Altoona
Email: ssr16[@]psu[dot]edu | jxr65[@]psu[dot]edu