Call for Papers

Advances in Secure Software Deployments (ASOD 2025) to be held in conjunction with the 20th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2025 – http://2025.ares-conference.eu)

August 11 – August 14, 2025 in Ghent, Belgium

Submission Guidelines The submission guidelines valid for the workshop are the same as for the ARES conference. They can be found at https://2025.ares-conference.eu/call-for-papers/


Workshop Description:

Securely deploying software applications and systems onto diverse production environments is a constantly evolving landscape. New security requirements are continuously proposed along with routine review and revisions of existing ones. Target production environments benefit from cutting edge technology resulting in the inclusion of new hosting platforms and its associated challenges to successful deployments. The ability to build and sustain deployment environments that can address automation, security, rapid deliveries, continuous build and deploy routines, is constantly evolving requiring both novel and improved upon approaches. The Advances in Secure Software Deployments workshop (ASOD) is focused on presenting and discussing the latest in novel and applied research and practice, along with experiential findings covering all areas of secure deployments of software and systems to diverse production environments. The workshop aims to converge a community of researchers and practitioners from academia and industry who are interested in advancing the state of the art. Submissions from academia and industry covering cutting edge approaches, novel findings, and practitioner insights are welcomed.


Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Deployment approaches to diverse environments such as IoT, cloud, edge devices, embedded devices, enterprise installations, industrial control systems and similar

• Automating security requirements validation and evidence gathering

• Design of secure deployable artifacts such as containers, virtual machines and similar

• Post-deployment sustainment and monitoring

• Continuous secure deployments

• Deployments in insecure, air gapped, and highly regulated environments

• Secure CI/CD design and maintenance

• AI driven deployment practices

• Secure deployments under resource constraints

• Using DevSecOps in secure deployments

• Deployment rollbacks, updates, and security patching

• Integration of and updates to security requirements

• Secure deployment strategies, planning, methodologies, and workflows



Important Dates

Submission Deadline not later than May 12, 2025

Author Notification not later than May 30, 2025

Proceedings Version June 18, 2025 (this deadline cannot be changed!!)

Conference August 11-14, 2025



Program Chair/ Workshop Chair

Dr. Jose Andre Morales, Carnegie Mellon University, josemora@andrew.cmu.edu (PoC and Co-chair)

Hasan Yasar, Carnegie Mellon University, hyasar@cmu.edu (PoC and Co-chair)



Program Committee

Dr. Jose Andre Morales, Carnegie Mellon University

Hasan Yasar, Carnegie Mellon University

Ehab Al-Shaer, Carnegie Mellon University

Juha Röning, University of Oulu, Finland

Martin Gilje Jaatun, SINTEF, Norway

Lotfi ben Othmane, University of North Texas, USA

Nazim Agulmine, University of Paris-Saclay, France

Tuba Yavuz, University of Florida, USA

Mohammad Zulkernine, Queen’s University, Canada

Simone Curzi, Microsoft, Italy

Altaz Valani, Info-Tech, Canada

Arun Prabhakar, Boston Consulting, USA