Resilience in Critical Infrastructures and Systems
(RCIS)

Kraków, Poland, 14-17 September, 2025

With the increased digitalization and adoption of off-the-shelf information technology components, Critical Infrastructures (CI) have benefited in many ways, but the cyber-attack surface also became larger. Besides many single CI cyber risks, inter-CI systems and software also have a need for unified prevention, protection, data processing, and fast recovery. The European Commission tries to tackle the resilience of CI with the integration of different strategies, indicators, and tools that rely on intelligent processing of available data, as well as regulations and policy measures.

Thematic session invited speaker

Stefan Schauer (Austrian Institute of Technology)

Keynote title: How CIs can Tackle Future Pandemics. A Multi-Domain Approach to Improve CI Resilience

Topics

Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:

Use of artificial intelligence for the protection of Critical Infrastructures
Intelligent processing of data about the behavior of Critical Infrastructures in a provisional context (e.g., pandemics)
Architecture of Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems for CIs
Real-time processing of CI systems and subsystems data
Designs of critical infrastructures and systems
Interdependencies among the entities in the context of the NIS2 and CER Directives of the EU
Socio-technical view of critical infrastructures and systems
Frameworks and metrics for measuring resilience in critical infrastructure and systems
Risk and incident management in Cyber-Physical systems
Strategies for resilience of critical infrastructures
Cybersecurity risk management
Access control systems
Cybersecurity and resilience training
Compliance with NIS2, CER and CRA
Socio-economic impacts
Ethical issues

Thematic Session organizers

Blanco, Jose Miguel, Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM), Spain
Jovanovic, Aleksandar, European Risk and Resilience Institute (EU-VRi), Germany
Pasic, Aljosa, Eviden, Spain
Schauer, Stefan, Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT), Austria
Segou, Olga, Netcompany-Intrasoft, Greece

Contact: rcis@fedcsis.org

Submission rules

Authors should submit their papers as Postscript, PDF or MSWord files.
The total length of a paper should not exceed 12 pages IEEE style (including tables, figures and references). More pages can be added, for an additional fee. IEEE style templates are available here.
Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their scientific merit and relevance to the Topical Area.
Preprints containing accepted papers will be published online.
Only papers presented at the conference will be published in Conference Proceedings and submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore® database.
Conference proceedings will be published in a volume with ISBN, ISSN and DOI numbers and posted at the conference WWW site.
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Organizers reserve right to move accepted papers between FedCSIS Tracks.