Securing the Digital Future: Cybersecurity, Quantum Technologies, and Blockchain (CQB)
I. Objectives
The rapid evolution of digital technologies is fundamentally transforming the way information is created, processed, transmitted, and protected. At the same time, emerging technologies such as quantum computing, blockchain, artificial intelligence, and decentralized systems are introducing both unprecedented opportunities and new security challenges.
In particular, the development of large-scale quantum computing poses a potential threat to widely deployed public-key cryptographic systems, while blockchain and decentralized technologies introduce novel security, privacy, trust, and governance challenges. These developments require researchers and practitioners to rethink conventional approaches to cybersecurity and information assurance.
This proposed special session, “Securing the Digital Future: Cybersecurity, Quantum Technologies, and Blockchain,” aims to bring together researchers, academics, industry experts, and practitioners working at the intersection of cybersecurity, quantum technologies, cryptography, blockchain, and trusted digital systems. The session will provide a multidisciplinary forum for presenting recent advances, emerging research directions, practical solutions, and open challenges related to securing next-generation digital infrastructures.
II. Scope
The primary objectives of this special session are:
- To provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to present recent advances in cybersecurity and information security.
- To explore the security implications of quantum computing and the transition toward post-quantum cryptography.
- To investigate security, privacy, trust, and resilience challenges in blockchain and decentralized systems.
- To promote interdisciplinary research connecting cybersecurity, quantum technologies, cryptography, and blockchain.
- To identify emerging threats, research challenges, and future directions for secure digital transformation.
- To foster collaboration between academic researchers, industry practitioners, technology developers, and policy makers.
We invite original research papers, review papers, case studies, and practical studies addressing theoretical, methodological, experimental, or applied aspects of cybersecurity, quantum security, cryptography, and blockchain.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Cybersecurity and Information Security
- Cybersecurity architectures and frameworks
- Network and system security
- Cloud, edge, and IoT security
- Cyber threat intelligence and threat detection
- Intrusion detection and prevention
- Malware analysis and detection
- Vulnerability assessment and penetration testing
- Digital forensics and incident response
- Privacy-preserving technologies
- Identity and access management
- Secure authentication and authorization
- Security of critical infrastructures
- Cyber-physical system security
- AI/ML for cybersecurity
- Adversarial machine learning
- Security of large language models and generative AI
- Human factors and usable security
Quantum Security and Post-Quantum Cryptography
- Quantum computing and cybersecurity
- Quantum threats to classical cryptographic systems
- Post-quantum cryptography (PQC)
- Lattice-based cryptography
- Code-based cryptography
- Hash-based cryptography
- Multivariate cryptography
- Isogeny-based and other emerging cryptographic approaches
- Post-quantum digital signatures
- Post-quantum key encapsulation mechanisms
- Quantum-resistant blockchain
- Quantum-safe communication
- Quantum key distribution and quantum cryptography
- Cryptographic migration and crypto-agility
- Security evaluation of post-quantum algorithms
- Quantum algorithms and their security implications
- Quantum random number generation
- Quantum-enhanced cybersecurity
Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Security
- Blockchain security and privacy
- Smart contract security
- Decentralized applications (DApps) security
- Consensus protocol security
- Blockchain-based identity management
- Decentralized identity and authentication
- Privacy-preserving blockchain technologies
- Cryptographic protocols for blockchain
- Blockchain attacks and threat models
- Smart contract vulnerabilities and formal verification
- Blockchain for cybersecurity applications
- Secure and scalable distributed ledgers
- Cross-chain and interoperability security
- DeFi security
- Web3 security
- Blockchain-based digital forensics
- Secure data sharing using blockchain
- Blockchain governance and trust management
Convergence and Emerging Directions
- Blockchain and post-quantum cryptography
- Quantum-resistant blockchain architectures
- Cybersecurity for decentralized and Web3 infrastructures
- Quantum computing for cybersecurity
- AI, blockchain, and cybersecurity
- AI-assisted cyber threat detection
- Privacy-enhancing technologies
- Zero-trust architectures
- Trusted digital ecosystems
- Secure digital transformation
- Cyber resilience in next-generation infrastructures
- Emerging cryptographic protocols
- Security and privacy in decentralized AI
- Security of quantum-enabled distributed systems
- Future directions in cybersecurity and trustworthy computing
III. Submission link: click here
Please select the Track/Session: “Securing the Digital Future: Cybersecurity, Quantum Technologies, and Blockchain (CQB)” during submission
IV. Session Organizers
- Ta Minh Thanh, Le Quy Don University, Vietnam, thanhtm@lqdtu.edu.vn
- Cao Van Loi, Le Quy Don University, Vietnam, loi.cao@lqdtu.edu.vn
- Pham Truong Son, Le Quy Don University, Vietnam, son.pham@lqdtu.edu.vn
- Nguyen Hieu Minh, Cryptography Academy, Vietnam, hieuminh@actvn.edu.vn