2025 IEEE CSR Workshop on Cyber Range, Insurance, and Risk Management (CRIRM)

 Call for Papers

Over the years, cyber threats have increased in both volume and sophistication, with adversaries employing a diverse arsenal of tools and tactics to target victims for motives ranging from intelligence collection to financial gain or destruction. The integration of advanced technologies, such as cyber ranges for simulated and emulated training, the evolving cyber insurance landscape, and robust risk assessment and management strategies, has become critical in navigating this increasingly complex threat environment. Effective cyber resilience today requires a multidisciplinary approach, integrating simulated training through cyber ranges, strategic cyber insurance adoption, and innovative risk management techniques that collectively improve preparedness and response capabilities.

The CSR CRIRM workshop aims to spotlight cutting-edge advancements and research in the integration of cyber range training, cyber insurance, and risk management to enhance organiza-tional resilience. It emphasizes practical applications of these strategies in critical areas such as supply chain and logistics security, smart cities and critical infrastructure, and transportation and fleet management. By bringing together experts from academia, industry, and policymaking, the workshop seeks to foster a holistic approach to cybersecurity, preparing stakeholders to tackle modern threats and ensure a secure and sustainable digital ecosystem.

The CSR CRIRM workshop will accept high-quality research papers presenting strong theoretical contributions, applied research and innovation results obtained from funded cyber-security and resilience projects, and industrial papers that promote contributions on technology development and contemporary implementations.

Topics of Interest

Prospective authors are encouraged to submit previously unpublished contributions from a broad range of topics, which include but are not limited to the following:

› Cyber-range platforms
› Cyber-risk assessment methods
› Cyber-security training
› Gamification in cyber-security
› Preparation and adaptation strategies
› Critical infrastructure security
› Software security

› Federation of cyber-range platforms
› Cyber-risk forecasting and mitigation
› Cyber-threat intelligence
› Cyber-threat adaptive capacity in IoT
› Operational recovery and continuity
› Cyber insurance
› eHealth security

Important Dates

Paper submission deadline: April 14, 2025
Authors’ notification: May 5, 2025
Camera-ready submission: May 26, 2025
Registration deadline (authors): May 26, 2025
Workshop dates: August 4–6, 2025

Submission Guidelines

Submitted manuscripts should not exceed 6 pages (plus 2 extra pages, being subject to overlength page charges) and should be of sufficient detail to be evaluated by expert reviewers in the field. The workshop’s proceedings will be published by IEEE and will be included in IEEE Xplore subject to meeting IEEE Xplore’s scope and quality requirements.

The guidelines for authors, manuscript preparation guidelines, and policies of the IEEE CSR conference are applicable to CRIRM workshop. Please visit the authors’ instructions page for more details. When submitting your manuscript via the conference management system, please make sure that the workshop’s track 2T3 CRIRM is selected in the Topic Areas drop down list.

Workshop Committees

Workshop Chairs

Contact Us

smyrlis@sphynx.ch
georgios.spathoulas@ntnu.no

Organizing Committee

Antonios Lalas, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (GR)
Nikos Nikoloudakis, Public Power Corporation S.A. (GR)
Eliana Stavrou, Open University of Cyprus (CY)
Emmanouil Vergis, Zelus (GR)

Technical Program Committee

George Alexandris, NodalPoint Systems (GR)
Thanos Apostolidis, Zelus (GR)
Dimitris Deyannis, Sphynx (GR)
Evangelos Floros, University General Hospital of Heraklion (GR)
Joakim Kavrestad , Jönköping University (SE)
Michael Koniotakis, NodalPoint Systems (GR)
Gregor Lagner, Austrian Institute of Technology (AU)
Chhagan Lal, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NO)
Notis Mengidis, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (GR)
Muhammad Mudassar Yamin, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NO)
Andriani Piki, University of Central Lancashire Cyprus (CY)
Vasilis Tountopoulos, Zelus (GR)
Konstantinos Votis, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (GR)

Publicity Chairs

Maria Bouloukaki, Zelus (GR)

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