• [22 Sep] Registration is now open.
• [4 Aug] Regular Submission Deadline has been extended to 19 Aug!
• [8 July] Submission criteria have been updated.
• [15 May] Conference page has been created!

• DCS’25 features a 1-day training session designed specifically for water plant operators and IT specialists. This session will be conducted in the red-blue team style where engineers from iTrust will constitute the red team that will launch cyber attacks while the participants will be defending the plant under attack. The format of this training session, and the tools used, will be nearly the same as those deployed during some of the world’s largest cyber exercises, such as the Locked Shields.
• Authors may now submit work that relates the impact of attacks on the water sector to dependent utilities such as electric power, transportation, and maritime.

Submissions can cover any of the topics listed below. Submissions that fall outside the topic listed below may also be considered when they fall within the domain of securing water utilities.

• Anomaly detection in water utilities
• Case studies and practical deployments in the water sector
• Cyber-physical testbeds for validation and training
• Cybersecurity education and workforce development
• Detection of rogue components in distributed water systems
• Digital twins for cybersecurity and operational training
• Fault and attack discrimination
• Generative models (e.g., GANs) for cyber threat simulation
• Honeypots and deception techniques for threat identification
• Inter and intra cascading effects of attacks on water utilities
• Operational resilience during active cyberattacks
• Preventing cascading failures in interconnected systems
• Reducing false positives in cyber-physical threat detection
• Scalable machine learning for threat detection
• Secure IT-OT integration and real-time incident response
• Zero-trust security architecture for water systems

All accepted long submissions (12-30 pages) will be published in “Communications in a Computer and Information Science (CCIS)” proceedings volume by Springer Nature.