5-NCCSC: 5th Annual North Country Cybersecurity Conference SUNY Plattsburgh Campus Au Sable Hall Plattsburgh, NY, United States, October 13, 2023

Conference website	https://www.plattsburgh.edu/about/centers/cct/cybersecurity-conference.html
Submission link	https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=5nccsc

Overview

The 5^th Annual North Country Cybersecurity Conference’s Academic Track invites the submission of academic research papers to be held on Fri, 13 October 2022. The Annual North Country Cybersecurity Conference is held at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh, with the theme of “Prepare, Plan, Practice, and WIN!” – the development and dissemination of winning and proactive strategies for ongoing cybersecurity resiliency in the North Country.

The aim of the Academic Track is to nurture engaging and emerging ideas in the field of cybersecurity. The conference is centered on providing an engaging environment where presented research ideas are discussed, and valuable feedback can facilitate the growth and development of such presented research in the form of lightning talks and poster sessions. Specifically, authors with accepted manuscripts will be provided time to present their research idea in a lightning talk event, and then have interactive poster sessions to gather feedback and answer questions. We also encourage encore presentations. Encore Presentations are papers, panels, tutorials or workshops that were previously at different conferences or published. Authors can use encore presentations as an opportunity to increase viewership or articles, network-building with other academics, and/or further develop ideas in the cybersecurity research workspace.

We highly encourage Faculty and Ph. D. students to participate in this event. All submitted manuscripts will be reviewed by the editorial board to ensure quality and rigor before acceptance. We encourage mainly conceptual or research-in-progress articles, and literature reviews. This event will serve as an excellent resource for developing, innovative, and cross-disciplinary research ideas, as well as, an excellent networking workspace for academics in the cybersecurity arena in the North Region. Accepted manuscripts (excluding encore presentations) will be published electronically by SUNY DSpace.

 

Academic Track Topics of Interest

Authors are invited to submit the following topics (but not limited to) in Cybersecurity and Information Privacy:

• Information Security Policy Development and Compliance
• Information Risk Management
• Security Education, Training and Awareness
• Economics of Security
• Behavioral Information Security
• Security and Culture
• Internet of Things
• Security and Privacy issues focused on “Frontier Technology” (Virtual and Augmented Reality, Smart Homes, Quantum Computing)
• Cryptography
• Blockchain
• Economic Information Systems
• Information Privacy Concerns
• Organizational Privacy Practices
• Healthcare Security and Privacy Issues
• Security and Privacy Analytics
• Security and Privacy Regulations & International Issues
• Security Strategy
• Network Security
• Software Security
• Cloud Computing
• Incident Response and Forensic Analysis
• Innovation and Countermeasures of Advanced Persistent Threats
• New Methodologies in Threat Modeling

 

Submission Process

Authors must submit manuscripts to:  EasyChair for now email  balanc@plattsburgh.edu

Once received, the editorial board would evaluate the quality of the manuscript. For conceptual or research-in-progress papers, novelty is expected with possible contributions that can advance the cybersecurity field from a theoretical and/or methodological perspective. For literature review pieces, relevant literature should summarize relevant literature while proposing avenues for research or implications for theory or practice within the related topic. For encore presentations, a proposal must be submitted and accompanying article if possible (or a link to the article if in a journal or conference proceeding).

 

Important Dates

Manuscript Submissions Begin: Aug 28^st, 2023

Manuscript Submission Deadline Date: Oct 5th^th, 2023

Notification of Manuscript Acceptance: ASAP

Camera-Ready Papers are Due: October 5^th, 2023

Conference Presentation: October 13^th, 2023

 

Submission Guidelines

Authors must comply to the following guidelines for submission for Research-in-Progress or Literature Review papers:

1. Manuscript must be:
   1. Maximum 3000 words, excluding abstract, references and appendix for Conceptual or Research-in-Progress manuscripts.
   2. Maximum 5000 words, excluding abstract, references and appendix for Literature Review manuscripts.
2. Manuscripts must contain a title with 20 words or less.
3. Manuscripts must contain an abstract that is maximum 150 words.
4. Manuscripts must contain 3-5 keywords.
5. Manuscripts must have, at the bare minimum, an introduction section highlighting the objective of the research and the novelty/possible contribution to the field.
6. Manuscripts must have a Discussion/Conclusion section at the end of the main body expressing the (possible) contributions, theoretical implications, implications for practice, and next steps (if conceptual/research-in-progress) to developing the study. For literature review pieces, the Discussion/Conclusion section must provide meaningful discourse on future avenues for research and, if possible, practical implications from the body of literature reviewed that can be useful for industry professionals.
7. References that are cited in-text must be cited in the References section based on the American Psychological Association (APA) References Format style[1]:
   1. Book citations:
      1. One Author: Last Name, F. M. (Year). Title of book. Location: Publisher.
      2. Two or More Authors: Last Name, F. M., & Last Name, F. M. (Year). Title of Book. Location: Publisher.
   2. Journal Citations
      1. One Author: Last Name, F. M. (Year). Title of article. Journal Name, Volume(Issue), page range. http://dx.doi.org/xxxx.
      2. Two or More Authors: Last Name, F. M., & Last Name, F. M. (Year). Title of article. Journal Name, Volume(Issue), page range. http://dx.doi.org/xxxx.
   3. Websites
      1. One Author: Last Name, F. M. (Year, Month). Title of webpage. Retrieved from URL.
      2. Two or More Authors: Last Name, F. M., & Last Name, F. M. (Year, Month). Title of webpage. Retrieved from URL.
8. Tables and Figures must be in accordance to the APA style as dictated by APA Manual.
9. Manuscripts must be double-spaced, written in Times New Romans and 11-point font size for body of text.
   1. Heading must be 14-point font size and centered.
   2. Subheadings must be 12-point font size and centered.
   3. Headings and subheadings must be bold.
10. Manuscript text must be justified.

 

For Encore Presentations – authors must submit a proposal describing the aim of the presentation, its contribution to academia, and the theoretical and/or methodological discussions derived from it. If the presentation was derived from a previously published peer-review journal or academic conference proceeding, authors should either send a copy of the publication or a web link of its electronic archival. For copyright purposes, encore presentations cannot be published by SUNY DSpace.

 

Copyright Policy

All accepted manuscripts shall be published electronically by SUNY OER (https://soar.suny.edu/handle/20.500.12648/8046) . Author(s) will retain the rights to the research and are encouraged further publish their work to journals. The North Country Cybersecurity Conference is dedicated to facilitating an informative environment to foster new developmental research ideas. Online publication of research articles falls under the creative commons license – specifically, the CC BY 4.0 (see link: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). For more questions on the copyright licenses, and SUNY distribution license, contact a member of the editorial board.

 

 

Program Committee and Editorial Board:

1. Dr. Rohit Rampal, Professor and Department Chair of the Department of Management, Information Systems and Analytics at the School of Business and Economics
   1. Email – rramp001@plattsburgh.edu  
   2. Phone – 518 – 564 – 3192
2. Prof. Cristian Balan, Conference Director and Lecturer at the Department of Management, Information Systems and Analytics at the School of Business and Econmomics
   1. Email – balanc@plattsburgh.edu 
   2. Phone – 518 – 569 – 1423
3. Dr. Delbert Hart, Professor and Department Chair of Computer Science
   1. Email – hartdr@plattsburgh.edu
   2. Phone – 518 – 564 – 2775
4. Dr. Zareef Mohammed, Assistant Professor at the Department of Management, Ifnormation Systems and Analytics at the School of Business and Economics
   1. Email – zmoha003@plattsburgh.edu