The workshop is co-located with the Joint National Conference on Cybersecurity (ITASEC & SERICS 2025).

Overview

Digital identity is increasingly recognized as a fundamental building block in the development and deployment of digital infrastructures and services across a wide range of sectors, including e-commerce, e-government, healthcare, and finance. As the adoption of digital technologies accelerates, the need for secure and reliable identity management solutions grows significantly and becomes the cornerstone of other security services, such as access control. However, this increased demand presents numerous challenges, including technical issues like security, interoperability, and usability, as well as legal and regulatory concerns related to data protection, privacy, and compliance.

To effectively address these challenges, collaboration among researchers and practitioners from various fields is essential. This workshop seeks to bring together representatives from academia, research institutions, industry, public administrations, and standardization bodies to discuss the evolving landscape of digital identity management. The objective is to drive a transformation process that ensures security guarantees, robust data protection, compliance, and a foundation of trust in digital services. By fostering these discussions, the workshop provides a unique opportunity for interdisciplinary collaboration, with the aim of shaping the future of digital identity.

Format

The workshop will feature a dynamic format, combining invited talks by national and international experts with presentations of peer-reviewed scientific contributions selected through a call for papers. This structure ensures a diverse and enriching experience, integrating expert insights with the latest research findings to foster a comprehensive understanding of current challenges and innovations in the field.

Topics of Interest

We encourage submissions on a range of topics, including but not limited to:

• Access Control in IoT and Distributed Systems
• Behavioral and Risk-based Authentication Mechanisms
• Compliance with Regulations such as eIDAS (2), PSD2, NIS2
• Decentralized Identity and Self Sovereign Identity
• Digital Wallets and Verifiable Credentials (such as Selective Disclosure and Revocation)
• Identification, Onboarding and Know Your Customer (KYC) Procedures
• Identity for Web 3.0 and Metaverse
• Identity Governance and Administration
• Identity of Things and Cloud Security
• Mobile and Strong Authentication
• Passwordless Authentication (including Passkeys)
• Privacy-Enhancing Technologies for Identity Management
• Securing Identities for Financial, Governmental and Health Services
• Session Management for Seamless and Continuous Authentication
• Threat Modeling, Security and Risk Analysis of Identity Management Solutions
• Trust Frameworks for Identity Management Solutions
• Usability of Identity Management Solutions
• Zero Trust Architectures

We look forward to receiving your submissions and engaging in fruitful and lively discussions on the latest trends and challenges related to digital identity.

Submission Guidelines

We welcome two types of submissions:

• Original contributions, including those in preliminary form, which may be considered for inclusion in an open-access post-proceedings volume published by CEUR-WS.org as part of the CEUR Workshop Proceedings (indexed by both Scopus and DBLP).
• Previously published works, which will not be included in the post-proceedings volume.

Authors must indicate during submission if they wish their paper to be considered for inclusion in the post-proceedings volume.

Submissions must be in English and provided in PDF format, using the CEURART template (1-column format). You can find the LaTeX and Word versions of the template here, and an Overleaf version is also available (the link will be added soon).

Submissions will be classified based on their length as follows:

• Short papers: 5-9 pages, including references and appendices.
• Regular papers: 10-12 pages, including references and appendices.

All submitted papers will undergo a single-blind review process, so anonymization is not required.

Submissions must be made through the EasyChair conference management system.

Please note that at least one author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop and present the paper in person.

Important Dates

• Paper Submission: December 9, 2024 (11:59 pm AoE)
• Notification to Authors: January 3, 2025
• Camera Ready: January 27, 2025
• Workshop: February 3, 2025

Committees

General Chair

• Silvio Ranise (Fondazione Bruno Kessler and University of Trento)

Program Co-Chairs

• Marco Pernpruner (Fondazione Bruno Kessler)
• Giada Sciarretta (Fondazione Bruno Kessler)

Program Committee

• Francesco Buccafurri (University of Reggio Calabria)
• Markus Dürmuth (Leibniz University Hannover)
• Riccardo Focardi (Ca' Foscari University of Venice)
• Ralf Küsters (University of Stuttgart)
• Flaminia Luccio (Ca' Foscari University of Venice)
• Marino Miculan (University of Udine)
• Federica Maria Francesca Paci (University of Verona)
• Daniela Pöhn (Universität der Bundeswehr München)
• Guido Schmitz (Lancaster University Leipzig)
• Rachelle Sellung (Fraunhofer IAO)
• Diego Sempreboni (Pleo Technologies)
• Amir Sharif (Fondazione Bruno Kessler)
• Luca Viganò (King's College London)
• Nicola Zannone (Eindhoven University of Technology)

Organizing Committee

• Roberto Carbone (Fondazione Bruno Kessler)
• Marco Pernpruner (Fondazione Bruno Kessler)
• Giada Sciarretta (Fondazione Bruno Kessler)
• Amir Sharif (Fondazione Bruno Kessler)