The Third International Conference on Digital Security and Forensics (DigitalSec2016) that will be held at Asia Pacific University of Technology and Innovation (APU), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on September 06-08, 2016 aims to enable researchers build connections between different digital applications.

The conference welcomes papers on the following (but not limited to) research topics:

• Distributed and Pervasive Systems Security         
• Enterprise Systems Security
• Formal Methods Application in Security 
• Hardware-Based security
• Incident Handling and Penetration Testing           
• Legal Issues
• Multimedia and Document Security        
• Operating Systems and Database Security
• Privacy issues    
• Secure Software Development, Architecture and Outsourcing
• Security for Future Networks     
• Security in Cloud Computing
• Security in Social Networks         
• Security of Web-based Applications and Services
• Security protocols           
• VOIP, Wireless and Telecommunications Network Security
• SCADA and Embedded systems security 
• Anti-cyberterrorism
• Anti-Forensics and Anti-Anti-Forensics Techniques           
• Cyber-Crimes
• Data leakage, Data protection and Database forensics    
• Evidentiary Aspects of Digital Forensics
• Executable Content and Content Filtering             
• File System and Memory Analysis Multimedia Forensic
• Forensics of Virtual and Cloud Environments       
• Information Hiding
• Investigation of Insider Attacks  
• Large-Scale Investigations
• Malware forensics and Anti-Malware techniques              
• New threats and Non-Traditional approaches
• Network Forensics and Traffic Analysis   
• Hardware Vulnerabilities and Device Forensics
• Computer Forensics       
• Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Planning
• Corporate Governance  
• Critical Infrastructure Protection
• Decidability and Complexity        
• Digital Rights Management and Intellectual Property Protection
• Economics of Security    
• Fraud Management
• Identity Management    
• Laws and Regulations
• Security Policies and Trust Management
• Threats, Vulnerabilities, and Risk Management
• Computer Crime Prevention and Detection          
• Authentication and Access Control Systems
• Biometrics Applications
• Biometrics standards and standardization
• Cyber Peacefare Trends and Approaches              
• Electronic Passports, National ID and Smart Card Security
• New theories and algorithms in biometrics          
• Social engineering
• Surveillance Systems      
• Template Protection and Liveliness detection
• Computer Security          
• Confidentiality Protection
• Cryptography and Data Protection           
• Forensics, Recognition Technologies and Applications
• Network Security            
• Security; Authentication and Cryptography for Wireless Networks

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Important Dates:

Submission Deadline                      :  Open from now until August 6, 2016

Notification of Acceptance           :  August 20, 2016 or 4 weeks from the submission date

Camera Ready Submission            : Open from now until August 26, 2016

Registration Date                            :  August 26, 2016

Conference Dates                           :  September 06-08, 2016

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All registered papers will be included in SDIWC Digital Library, and in the proceedings of the conference.

All the submitted papers will be reviewed by a minimum of two reviewers. The published proceedings will be indexed in ResearchBib, in addition, they will be reviewed for possible inclusion within the INSPEC, EI, DBLP, Microsoft Academic Research, ResearchGate, and Google Scholar Databases.