The Internet of Things (IoT) is a novel design paradigm, envisioned as a network of billions or trillions of “Things” communicating with one another and rapidly gaining global attention from academia, industry, and government. Pervasive computing is at the heart of IoT and forms a fundamental building block necessary to realize the IoT. Equipped with pervasive technologies such as RFID and smart dust together with tiny sensors, actuators and machine-to-machine (M2M) communication technologies, IoT has the potential to offer innovative solutions to global challenges faced by ageing populations, the growing cost of healthcare, climate change, bio security, as well as how we manage our environment and natural resources. The heterogeneous nature of the IoT as well as the computational constraints of many of the building blocks of the IoT make security, privacy and trust an extremely challenging problem to solve on one hand, while security, privacy and trust play a critical role for most, if not all, applications of IoT in domains such as surveillance, healthcare, security, transport, food safety, manufacturing, logistics and supply chain management. Without effective solutions for security, privacy and trust, reliable data fusion and mining, qualified services with context-aware intelligence and enhanced user acceptance and experience cannot be achieved. 

The IEEE Percom workshop on Security, Privacy and Trust for IoT aims to provide a forum that brings together researchers from academia as well as practitioners from industry, standardization bodies, and government to meet and exchange ideas on recent research and future directions for the IoT with a specific focus on IoT security, privacy and trust. The technical discussion will be focused on the communications and network security aspects of IoT and the key enabling technologies for IoT, especially M2M communications and networking, RFID technology and Near Field Communications (NFC). The workshop will foster an opportunity to bring together relevant stakeholders to identify challenges to security, privacy and trust, and novel approaches to solving these. All workshop papers require a full author registration at the main conference rate. The technical topics of interest to the workshop include, but are not limited to:

• IoT Fuzzing and Software vulnerability discovery in IoT and smart objects

• IoT secure access network technologies and capillary networks

• IoT secure network infrastructures

• IoT security protocols and IoT networking and communication security

• Methods for secure by design IoT

• Methods for IoT security analysis and audit

• Identity, access management and biometrics in IoT

• Security of big data in IoT

• Privacy and anonymization techniques in IoT

• Cyber physical systems security

• Circuit and system design for secure "Things"

• Secure firmware and secure firmware update techniques for "Things"

• Secure cloud of “Things”

• Trust management architectures in pervasive IoT applications

• Security in pervasive and ubiquitous computing including smart objects

• Secure sensing, smart transportation, smart grid systems

• Crypto for embedded platforms (implementations optimized for performance, resource- constraints, energy efficiency)

• IoT security for industry 4.0, supply chain and blockchain

• Hardware security primitives and lightweight security solutions

• Secure pervasive/ubiquitous computing software and systems

• Digital forensics in IoT

• Ethics and legal considerations in IoT including liability and policy enforcement

Important Dates (as per PerCom 2027deadline)

• Paper submission deadline: November 17th, 2026

• Paper notification: January 8th, 2027

• Camera Ready Deadline: February 2nd, 2027

• Workshop Date: March 8th - 12th, 2027
  
  

Workshop Contact

• Shantanu Pal (shantanu.pal@deakin.edu.au)