EuroSPI for Safety–Security–Resilience Integration
A special issue of Technologies (ISSN 2227-7080). This special issue belongs to the section "Information and Communication Technologies".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 January 2027 | Viewed by 62
Editors
Interests: cybersecurity; functional safety; innovation; automotives; defense
Interests: software process improvement; software engineering; management information; systems cybersecurity
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Interests: industry 4.0/5.0; sustainable innovation ecosystems; systems and software engineering; functional safety; cybersecurity; ecodesign; circular economy; product-service systems
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue aims to showcase papers that emerge from the EuroSPI community, focusing on the intersection of cybersecurity and operational resilience within industrial and mobility ecosystems. Rooted in real-world industrial applications across sectors, this issue highlights Software and Systems Process Improvement (SPI) and industrial engineering methodologies necessary to secure complex, interconnected environments.
Subject areas include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Automotive Security Process Engineering: Practical implementation and auditing of Automotive SPICE (A-SPICE) for cybersecurity, ISO/SAE 21434, ISO PAS 5112 and CSMS systems, and UN-R 155.
- Cybersecurity in Non-Automotive Domains: Cybersecurity in medicine, critical infrastructure, aerospace, and defense.
- Safety–Security–Resilience Integration in Automotives: Managing design and engineering trade-offs between functional safety (ISO 26262), cybersecurity (ISO 21434), and operational resilience in software-defined vehicles (SDVs).
- AI Cyber-Resilience: The potential of machine learning, digital twins, and intelligent automation for predictive risk assessment, anomaly detection, or defending against adversarial attacks, including the cyber-resilience of AI algorithms and data.
- Use of GenAI and AI for Cybersecurity Verification: To analyze vulnerabilities, identify attack paths, design test cases and test programs for cybersecurity verification and validation.
- V2X and Mobility Infrastructure Security: Securing vehicle-to-everything communications, fleet telematics, cloud backends, and EV charging infrastructure.
- IT/OT Convergence in Manufacturing: Process models for securing supply chains, product provenance (e.g., SBOM), and the factory floor (OT) alongside corporate IT networks.
- Industrial Case Studies: Empirical reports, lessons learned, and experience reports on the topics above.
- Innovation and Strategic Foresight in Cybersecurity: Using modern research systems, GenAI/AI and big cloud data to predict cybersecurity research trends.
In addition to extended versions of high-quality papers presented at EuroSPI conferences (containing at least 50% new technical content), we also welcome standalone original research and review papers on these topics that were not part of the conference.
Dr. Richard Messnarz
Prof. Dr. Ricardo Colomo-Palacios
Dr. Andreas Riel
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- cybersecurity standards and best practices
- cybersecurity and AI/GenAI
- software-defined vehicles (SDVs)
- cybersecurity forecast
- threat analysis and risk assessment
- experiences and solutions for cybersecurity
- safety/AI/cybersecurity integration
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