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Tuesday, October 13<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
Time<\/strong><\/td>Program<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/thead>
12:00\u201313:00<\/strong><\/td>Registration and Lunch<\/td><\/tr>
13:00\u201313:30<\/strong><\/td>Opening Ceremony and FPS 2026 Presentation<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
13:30\u201314:30<\/strong><\/td>Keynote 1 \u2014 Benjamin Fung, Professor, McGill University<\/strong>.<\/td><\/tr>
14:30\u201314:45<\/strong><\/td>Coffee Break<\/td><\/tr>
14:45\u201315:50<\/strong><\/td>Session 1 \u2014 Security of LLMs and AI Agents I<\/td><\/tr>
15:50\u201316:05<\/strong><\/td>Coffee Break<\/td><\/tr>
16:05\u201317:30<\/strong><\/td>Session 2 \u2014 Network Security I<\/td><\/tr>
17:30\u201319:00<\/strong><\/td>Welcome Cocktail<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Wednesday, October 14<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
Time<\/strong><\/td>Program<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/thead>
 9:00\u201310:10<\/strong><\/td>Session 3 \u2014 LLMs and AI Agents for Security<\/td><\/tr>
10:10\u201310:25<\/strong><\/td>Coffee Break<\/td><\/tr>
10:25\u201312:00<\/strong><\/td>Session 4 \u2014 Adversary Models, Language Security and XAI<\/td><\/tr>
12:00\u201313:00<\/strong><\/td>Lunch Break<\/td><\/tr>
13:00\u201314:00<\/strong><\/td>Industrial Keynote \u2014 Ashif Chakkantakath, Senior OT Cybersecurity Architect, Siemens<\/strong>.<\/td><\/tr>
14:00\u201314:15<\/strong><\/td>Coffee Break<\/td><\/tr>
14:15\u201316:00<\/strong><\/td>Session 5 \u2014 Industrial Session <\/td><\/tr>
16:00\u201317:25<\/strong><\/td>Session 6 \u2014 Security Analysis and AI Robustness<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, October 15<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
Time<\/strong><\/td>Program<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/thead>
9:00\u201310:00<\/strong><\/td>Keynote \u2014 Claude Cr\u00e9peau, Professor, \u00c9cole de technologie sup\u00e9rieure (\u00c9TS)<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
10:00\u201310:15<\/strong><\/td>Coffee Break<\/td><\/tr>
10:15\u201311:10<\/strong><\/td>Session 7 \u2014 Malware Detection<\/td><\/tr>
11:10\u201312:00<\/strong><\/td>Session 8 \u2014 Wireless Security and IoT<\/td><\/tr>
12:00\u201313:00<\/strong><\/td>Lunch Break<\/td><\/tr>
13:00\u201314:30<\/strong><\/td>Session 9 \u2014 Cryptography, Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies<\/td><\/tr>
14:30\u201314:45<\/strong><\/td>Coffee Break<\/td><\/tr>
14:45\u201316:10<\/strong><\/td>Session 10 \u2014 Security of LLMs and AI Agents II <\/td><\/tr>
Evening<\/strong><\/td>Conference Dinner \/ Gala and Best Paper and Poster Award Announcements.\u00a0
View the Gala Dinner & Cultural Visit programme<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Friday, October 16<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
Time<\/strong><\/td>Program<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/thead>
9:00\u201310:00<\/strong><\/td>Keynote \u2014 Natalia Stakhanova, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Security and Privacy, University of Saskatchewan<\/strong>.<\/td><\/tr>
10:00\u201310:15<\/strong><\/td>Coffee Break<\/td><\/tr>
10:15\u201311:00<\/strong><\/td>Session 11 \u2014 Network Security II and Emerging Events<\/td><\/tr>
11:00\u201312:05<\/strong><\/td>Session 12 \u2014 XAI, Generative AI and Federated Learning<\/td><\/tr>
12:05\u201312:15<\/strong><\/td>Closing Ceremony<\/td><\/tr>
12:15 \u2013 13:15<\/strong><\/td>Lunch Break<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Session 1 \u2014 Security of LLMs and AI Agents I<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Room: Grande salle    |    Session Chair: To be confirmed<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Time<\/strong><\/td>Program<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/thead>
14:45\u201315:00<\/strong><\/td>Saeedeh Lohrasbi, Mohammad Mamun, Ahmed Yehia, Scott Buffett and Sherif Saad. Where Cyber Agents Struggle: Bottleneck Analysis of Multi Stage LLM Agents<\/strong><\/em> (Paper 254)<\/td><\/tr>
15:00\u201315:20<\/strong><\/td>Rodrigo Castro, Eva Maia and Isabel Pra\u00e7a. From Benchmarks to the Wild: Evaluating the Security of LLM-Generated Python Code <\/em><\/strong>(Paper 421)<\/td><\/tr>
15:20\u201315:40<\/strong><\/td>Zhiju Yang, Yue Xue and Xiecongyou Yang. What AI Auditors Miss: Diagnosing and Closing the Gap Between AI and Human Web3 Security Audits <\/em><\/strong>(Paper 643)<\/td><\/tr>
15:40\u201315:50<\/strong><\/td>Discussion<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Session 2 \u2014 Network Security I<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Room: Grande salle    |    Session Chair: To be confirmed<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Time<\/strong><\/td>Program<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/thead>
16:05\u201316:25<\/strong><\/td>Zhiju Yang. Characterizing Security and Privacy Practices of News<\/em><\/strong> (Paper 2141)<\/td><\/tr>
16:25\u201316:40<\/strong><\/td>Bassirou Badiane, Valerie Viet Triem Tong and Yufei Han. From Commands to TTPs: A Deterministic Approach for Large-Scale SSH Botnet Analysis<\/em><\/strong> (Paper 3132)<\/td><\/tr>
16:40\u201317:00<\/strong><\/td>Savvy Sharma and Paula Branco. CWE119Bench: Evaluating Label Noise and Class Imbalance in Vulnerability Detection<\/em><\/strong> (Paper 7460)<\/td><\/tr>
17:00\u201317:20<\/strong><\/td>Joshua Guttman, Will Thomas, Logan Schmalz, Adam Petz, Perry Alexander, Paul Rowe and James Carter. Designing Trustworthy Layered Attestations<\/em><\/strong> (Paper 7690)<\/td><\/tr>
17:20\u201317:30<\/strong><\/td>Discussion<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Session 3 \u2014 LLMs and AI Agents for Security<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Room: Grande salle    |    Session Chair: To be confirmed<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Time<\/strong><\/td>Program<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/thead>
9:00\u20139:20<\/strong><\/td>Derik Pack, Anthony Leclerc, Jordan Hopkins and Mert Pes\u00e9. LLMCluster: Fuzzing Crash Triage using Generative AI<\/em><\/strong> (Paper 4235)<\/td><\/tr>
9:20\u20139:40<\/strong><\/td>Konur Tholl, Francois Rivest, Mariam El-Mezouar, Adrian Taylor and Ranwa Al Mallah. Distilling Knowledge from Large Language Models into Lightweight Reinforcement Learning Agents for Autonomous Cyber Operations<\/em><\/strong> (Paper 4575)<\/td><\/tr>
9:40\u201310:00<\/strong><\/td>Augustin Brenner, Kamel Adi, Khaled Hamouid and Myria Bouhaddi. Agentic AI for Automated Penetration Testing and Red Teaming <\/em><\/strong>(Paper 6489)<\/td><\/tr>
10:00\u201310:10<\/strong><\/td>Discussion<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Session 4 \u2014 Adversary Models, Language Security and XAI<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Room: Grande salle    |    Session Chair: To be confirmed<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Time<\/strong><\/td>Program<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/thead>
10:25\u201310:45<\/strong><\/td>Leonie Wolf, Robin Leander Schr\u00f6der, Sebastian Schinzel and Fabian Ising. Maturity\u00b2: Assessing the Maturity of Crypto Agility Maturity Models<\/em><\/strong> (Paper 7415)<\/td><\/tr>
10:45\u201311:05<\/strong><\/td>Arto Niemi and Parsa Sadri Sinaki. Diversification of Signed and Attested Binaries<\/em><\/strong> (Paper 1056)<\/td><\/tr>
11:05\u201311:25<\/strong><\/td>Alpha Oumar Diallo, Talal Halabi and Mohamed Mejri. Embedding Explanation Constraints into Model Training to Improve XAI Fidelity in IoT Intrusion Detection<\/em><\/strong> (Paper 2313)<\/td><\/tr>
11:25\u201311:45<\/strong><\/td>Sundiata Keita, Carlos Philips and Andreas Schaad. ChainShield: A Hybrid Machine Learning and Rule-Based Framework for Supply Chain Security Detection, Visualization, and Automated Reporting<\/em><\/strong> (Paper 2830)<\/td><\/tr>
11:45\u201312:00<\/strong><\/td>Discussion<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Session 5 \u2014 Industrial Session<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Room: Grande salle    |    Session Chair: To be confirmed<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Time<\/strong><\/td>Program<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/thead>
14:15\u201314:35<\/strong><\/td>Mahmoud Abdelhafeez Sayed, Mostafa Taha and Gurp Nijjer. System-Level Optimization Beyond Cryptographic Kernels: An ML-KEM Case Study on Arm Cortex-M7<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
14:35\u201314:55<\/strong><\/td>Parsa Kootzari, Taous Madi and Lianying Zhao. A Two-Dimensional Attack Graph for Risk Modeling and Scoring in Cloud Virtualized Environments<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
14:55\u201315:15<\/strong><\/td>Hadi Chamas, Samiha Ayed and Guillaume Antoine. A Relationship-Centric Supply-Chain Dependency Model for Colocation Data Centers<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
15:15\u201315:35<\/strong><\/td>Dave McKay, Atefeh Mashatan and Vinay Singh. Beyond Issue Hold: Secure Decentralized Workflows for Digital Identity and Verifiable Credentials<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
15:35\u201316:00<\/strong><\/td>Discussion<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Session 6 \u2014 Security Analysis and AI Robustness<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Room: Grande salle    |    Session Chair: To be confirmed<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

 <\/strong> <\/strong>Time<\/strong><\/td>Program<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/thead>
16:00\u201316:20<\/strong><\/td>Weicheng Wang, Nischay Gupta, Jie Pan, Piyush Nahar and Gang Li. SecPriv: A Unified Multi-Phase Agent Skill for LLM-Assisted Security and Privacy Code Review<\/em><\/strong> (Paper 6933)<\/td><\/tr>
16:20\u201316:35<\/strong><\/td>Sebastian Rehms, Songyang Liu and Florian Tschorsch. Making Threats Explicit: From Threat Descriptions to Logical Models<\/em><\/strong> (Paper 306)<\/td><\/tr>
16:35\u201316:55<\/strong><\/td>Seyedehakram Salehi, Fatemeh Erfan and Adel Abusitta. TASAD: Temporal Adversarial Suppression via Anomaly Detection against Stealthy Backdoor Attacks in Federated Learning<\/em><\/strong> (Paper 4824)<\/td><\/tr>
16:55\u201317:15<\/strong><\/td>Miguel Silva, Eva Maia, Jo\u00e3o Vitorino and Isabel Pra\u00e7a. Realistic Robustness Evaluation of Tabular Data Driven Models <\/em><\/strong>(Paper 9532)<\/td><\/tr>
17:15\u201317:25<\/strong><\/td>Discussion<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Session 7 \u2014 Malware Detection<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Room: Grande salle    |    Session Chair: To be confirmed<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Time<\/strong><\/td>Program<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/thead>
10:15\u201310:35<\/strong><\/td>C\u00e9sar Vieira, Jo\u00e3o Vitorino, Eva Maia and Isabel Pra\u00e7a. A Transfer Learning Benchmark to Address Distribution Shift in Malware Detection<\/em><\/strong> (Paper 377)<\/td><\/tr>
10:35\u201310:50<\/strong><\/td>Tayssir Touili and Olzhas Zhangeldinov. Precise Android Malware Detection using CARET Model Checking<\/em><\/strong>(Paper 4068)<\/td><\/tr>
10:50\u201311:10<\/strong><\/td>Faithful Chiagoziem Onwuegbuche, Anca Jurcut and Liliana Pasquale. Do Behavioural Images Improve Ransomware Detection? A Systematic Evaluation of Behaviour-to-Image Modelling <\/em><\/strong>(Paper 8501)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Session 8 \u2014 Wireless Security and IoT<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Room: Grande salle  |    Session Chair: To be confirmed<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Time<\/strong><\/td>Program<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/thead>
11:10\u201311:30<\/strong><\/td>Thomas Hoger, Issam Abdeldjalil Ikhelef, Gr\u00e9gory Blanc, Guillaume Doyen and Philippe Owezarski. Clearing the Fog on 5G Security: An Analysis of the State of the Art, Implementations and Reference Frameworks<\/em><\/strong>(Paper 1009)<\/td><\/tr>
11:30\u201311:50<\/strong><\/td>Arshpreet Singh, Mohamad Sadegh Sangari and Atefeh Mashatan. Security Behaviours in Smart Homes: A Data-Driven Analysis from the User Perspective<\/em><\/strong> (Paper 7337)<\/td><\/tr>
11:50\u201312:00<\/strong><\/td>Discussion<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Session 9 \u2014 Cryptography, Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Room: Grande salle    |    Session Chair: To be confirmed<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Time<\/strong><\/td>Program<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/thead>
13:00\u201313:15<\/strong><\/td>Jing Wang, Jiahao Liu, Dong Liu and Wanqi Tao. Construction and Applications of Lattice-based Verifiable Delay Functions<\/em><\/strong> (Paper 1340)<\/td><\/tr>
13:15\u201313:35<\/strong><\/td>Mahmoud Yassin, Mahmoud Abdelhafeez Sayed and Mostafa Taha. EI-DDLGN: Efficient Encrypted Inference with Deep Differentiable Logic Gate Networks under TFHE<\/em><\/strong> (Paper 6513)<\/td><\/tr>
13:35\u201313:55<\/strong><\/td>Wail Zellagui, Abdessamad Imine and Yamina Tadjeddine. Teacher-Student Framework for Fraud-Intent Detection in Cryptocurrency Discussions<\/em><\/strong> (Paper 2098)<\/td><\/tr>
13:55\u201314:15<\/strong><\/td>Ruiyang Zhang. Clean-Trace Poisoning: Deleting Safety Properties from Specification Miners with Individually-Legal Executions<\/em><\/strong> (Paper 8403)<\/td><\/tr>
14:15\u201314:30<\/strong><\/td>Discussion<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Session 10 \u2014 Security of LLMs and AI Agents II<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Room: Grande salle    |    Session Chair: To be confirmed<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Time<\/strong><\/td>Program<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/thead>
14:45\u201315:05<\/strong><\/td>Weicheng Wang, Nischay Gupta, Jie Pan, Piyush Nahar and Gang Li. MCP-Aware Tool-Call Security for LLM Agents: Schema-Derived Capability Policies Composed with OS Isolation<\/em><\/strong> (Paper 2994)<\/td><\/tr>
15:05\u201315:25<\/strong><\/td>Maurice Thierry Ndimis Ndimis Toko, Fatemeh Erfan, Martine Bellaiche and Talal Halabi. Orchestrator-free AI Agent Collaboration using Swarm Intelligence for Multi-stage Attacks Detection in IIoT<\/em><\/strong> (Paper 3356)<\/td><\/tr>
15:25\u201315:40<\/strong><\/td>Nguyen Quang Minh Le, Thanoshan Malavarayar Vijayanandan, Gouri Ginde, Benjamin Tan and Lorenzo De Carli. On the Security of Agentic Pull Requests in GitHub: An Empirical Study<\/em><\/strong> (Paper 3420)<\/td><\/tr>
15:40\u201316:00<\/strong><\/td>Anmol Pandey, Aditya Jain, Liang Chen, Carsten Maple and Christo Panchev. STELE: Verifiable Non-Selection for Confidential Frontier-Model Evaluation<\/em><\/strong> (Paper 7225)<\/td><\/tr>
16:00\u201316:10<\/strong><\/td>Discussion<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Session 11 \u2014 Network Security II and Emerging Events<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Room: Grande salle    |    Session Chair: To be confirmed<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Time<\/strong><\/td>Program<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/thead>
10:15\u201310:35<\/strong><\/td>Ali Sadeghi Jahromi and Jason Jaskolka. When Visibility Is Not Connectivity: Multi-Plane Measurement of Iran’s 2026 Internet Shutdowns<\/em><\/strong> (Paper 8598)<\/td><\/tr>
10:35\u201310:55<\/strong><\/td>Kamal Ziadi, J\u00e9r\u00e9my Dumas, Talal Halabi and Nadia Tawbi. Optimal Deep Packet Inspection Deployment against Advanced Persistent Threats in Industrial Networks: A Stochastic Game Approach<\/em><\/strong> (Paper 8152)<\/td><\/tr>
10:55\u201311:00<\/strong><\/td>Discussion<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Session 12 \u2014 XAI, Generative AI and Federated Learning<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Room: Grande salle    |    Session Chair: To be confirmed<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Time<\/strong><\/td>Program<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/thead>
11:00\u201311:20<\/strong><\/td>Mert Nar. FACE-EO: A Behavior-Centric Intermediate Representation for Explainable Cybersecurity Analysis <\/em><\/strong>(Paper 9739)<\/td><\/tr>
11:20\u201311:35<\/strong><\/td>Alexandre Carrier, K\u00e9ren A. Saint-Hilaire, Rim Ben Salem, Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Cuppens and Nora Boulahia-Cuppens. An Automated Framework for Generating Realistic Hybrid ABAC Datasets<\/em><\/strong> (Paper 5488)<\/td><\/tr>
11:35\u201311:50<\/strong><\/td>Oussama El Boujjadia, Fehmi Jaafar and Montassar Ben Messaoud. Security Patching and GenAI-Driven Refactoring: An Empirical Study of Energy Overhead<\/em><\/strong> (Paper 5793)<\/td><\/tr>
11:50\u201312:05<\/strong><\/td>Fadi Farhat, Sofiane Aissani, Coulibaly Cheick and Mawloud Omar. When Direction Is Not Enough: A Geometric Analysis of Robust Aggregation against Federated Learning Backdoor Attacks<\/em><\/strong> (Paper 307)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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