2025 IEEE CSR Workshop on Generative AI Applications to Security of Cyber-Physical Assets (GAIA-SEC)

 Call for Papers

The workshop focuses on research advances and industrial applications of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) models and techniques in cybersecurity, investigating and obtaining an effective landscape of the current opportunities provided by meshing generative AI and cybersecurity to enhance defense strategies and systems and to observe novel threats and malicious opportunities raised by this combining Gen-AI and security.

Generative AI holds the potential to enhance cybersecurity by improving threat detection, but complete automation is not expected soon. Malicious actors are also investigating how generative AI can assist in cyberattacks by developing evolving malware. In today’s landscape, both cybersecurity consumers and service providers have opportunities to leverage this new technology while ensuring their protection. Following the launch of ChatGPT and other products utilizing large language models (LLMs), the cybersecurity sector is strategizing to integrate generative AI as a crucial tool. Despite the initial challenge generative AI faces in cybersecurity due to the sensitive and isolated nature of security data, which hinders the acquisition of high-quality, comprehensive datasets required for training and updating LLM models. Currently, the primary focus lies in threat identification, where Generative AI is already contributing to the expedited detection of attacks and providing a more comprehensive assessment of their scale and potential impact. For instance, it aids analysts in more efficiently filtering out false positives from incident alerts. The capabilities of generative AI in threat detection and analysis are expected to become increasingly dynamic and automated.

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Prospective authors are encouraged to submit previously unpublished contributions from a broad range of topics, which include but are not limited to the following:

› Generative AI for intrusion detection and response
› Generative AI for malware analysis and prevention
› Generative AI for security testing and red teaming
› Generative AI for secure software development
› Generative AI for physical security
› Generative AI for privacy-preserving data analysis

› Generative AI for ethical hacking and cybersecurity education
› Generative AI for secure IoT device development
› Generative AI for supply chain security
› Generative AI for enhancing human–AI collaboration in cybersecurity
› Generative AI for adversarial machine learning in cybersecurity
› Generative AI for cybersecurity policy and regulation

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 GAIA-SEC 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 2T8 GAIA-SEC is selected in the Topic Areas drop down list.

Workshop Committees

Workshop Chairs

Contact Us

fiammetta.marulli@unicampania.it
francesco.mercaldo@unimol.it

Organizing Committee

Antonio Balzanella, Università della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli” (IT)
Marianna Bifulco, Anbi Srl (IT)
Lelio Campanile, Università della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli” (IT)
Emanuele Damiano, CNR-ICAR (IT)
Maria Stella De Biase, Università della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli” (IT)
Michele Mastroianni, Università degli Studi di Foggia (IT)
Muddassar Naeem, Università degli Studi Telematica Giustino Fortunato (IT)
Giovanni Paragliola, CNR-ICAR (IT)
Vincenzo Reccia, GEMATICA Srl (IT)
Paolo Valletta, GEMATICA Srl (IT)

Technical Program Committee

Lelio Campanile, Università della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli” (IT)
Maria Stella De Biase, Università della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli” (IT)
Gladys Diaz, Universitè Sorbonne Paris Nord (FR)
Cristian Martin Fernandez, University of Malaga (ES)
Peter Kieseberg, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences (AT)
Michele Mastroianni, Università degli Studi di Foggia (IT)
Muddassar Naeem, Università degli Studi Telematica Giustino Fortunato (IT)
Torsten Priebe, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences (AT)
Ricardo J Rodiguez, University of Zaragoza (ES)

Publicity Chairs

Fiammetta Marulli, Università della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli” (IT)
Francesco Mercaldo, Università degli Studi del Molise (IT)

Program Information