ECCWS 2025 - Proceedings of the 24th European Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security

edited by Christoph Lipps and Dr Bin Han

Warfare and Security (ECCWS 2025), supported by The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence - DFKI in Kaiserslautern, Germany on 26-27 June 2025. The Conference Co-Chairs are Christoph Lipps and Priv.-Doz. Dr.-Ing. habil. Bin Han, both from the DFKI, Kaiserslautern, Germany.

ECCWS is a well-established event on the academic research calendar and now in its 24th year conference remains the opportunity for participants to network and share ideas. The following conference proceedings contain a diverse range of papers and the conference continues to be a forum for technical, theoretical and practical exchange about the study, management, development and implementation of systems and concepts to improve cyber security and combat cyber warfare.

The opening keynote presentation is given by Dr. Jörn Hoffmann founder and CTO of bitaggregat GmbH on the topic of From Silicon to Sovereignty: Resilient Computing for Tomorrow’s Cyber Battles. The second day of the conference will open with an address by Hekma Chaari from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany speaking on the German perspective on Trustworthiness in 6G.

With an initial submission of 161 abstracts, after the double blind, peer review process there are 91 Academic research papers, 10 PhD research papers, 4 Masters Research papers and 2 work-in-progress papers published in these Conference Proceedings. These papers represent research from Australia, Canada, Country, Czech Republic, Deutschland, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, India, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Korea, Romania, Singapore, South Africa, Sweden, The Netherlands, UK and USA.