Conference Program
The technical sessions of DBSec 2026 will take place over 3 days, from July 28 to July 30, 2026. All times are shown in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). The conference is single-track. Presentation start times are shown in the first column.
Tuesday 28 July
| EDT | Session Chair | |
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| 08:30 | Registration | |
| 09:10 | Opening | |
| 09:25 | Session 1: AI Applications in Security and Privacy | Rosario Giustolisi |
| 09:25 | Silent Fallbacks and Semantic Gaps: Evaluating the Functional Soundness of LLM-Generated Linux Password Policies Vivek Vaidya, Aditya Patwardhan, Sudiksha Das and Ashish Kundu |
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| 09:50 | “Room for more?”: Behavior Adaptive IoT Device-type Fingerprinting Maxwel Bar-On, Bruhadeshwar Bezawada, Indrakshi Ray and Indrajit Ray |
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| 10:15 | SecMate: Multi-Agent Adaptive Cybersecurity Troubleshooting with Tri-Context Personalization Yair Meidan, Omri Haller, Yulia Moshan, Shahaf David, Dudu Mimran and Asaf Shabtai |
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| 10:35 | Break (25 min) | |
| 11:00 |
Keynote Talk Daniel Massey, National Science Foundation |
Balaji Palanisamy |
| 12:00 | Lunch Break (60 min) | |
| 13:00 | Session 2: Access Control & User Privacy | Yair Meidan |
| 13:00 | Performance Analysis of Multi-Core ABAC Systems using an M/G/m Queue Model Hunny Chandra, Karthikeya S M Yelisetty, Gaurav Madkaikar, Shamik Sural, Jaideep Vaidya and Vijayalakshmi Atluri |
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| 13:25 | Integrating ABAC into PostgreSQL: A Trusted Execution Environment based Approach Harshit Jain, Shamik Sural, Vijayalakshmi Atluri and Jaideep Vaidya |
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| 13:50 | Formalizing Access Requests in IAM: Beyond Roles and Permissions Alexander Puchta, Sebastian Groll and Günther Pernul |
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| 14:10 | SCoPE: Cross-Platform Discovery and RAG-Driven Profiling of Public Personal Data Stefano Cirillo, Giuseppe Polese, Giandomenico Solimando and Nicola Zannone |
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| 14:30 | Break (25 min) | |
| 14:55 | Session 3: Data Privacy and Cyberattacks | Günther Pernul |
| 14:55 | Anonymous yet Verifiable Privacy-preserving Demand Response Rosario Giustolisi, Emad Heydari Beni, Daniele Marletta and Maryam Sheikhi Garjan |
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| 15:20 | DICS: Demographic-Invariant Cross-Synthesis Method for Privacy-Preservation in Speech Processing Nishanth Chennagouni, Mashrafi Alam Kajol and Qiaoyan Yu |
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| 15:45 | Identifying and Protecting Records at Risk for Membership Inference Attacks Against Synthetic Data Nina Niederhametner and Rudolf Mayer |
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| 16:05 | Where LLM-Assisted Cyberattacks Break Down: A Stage-Level Analysis of Workflow Execution Boundaries Gabby Campos, Tam Nguyen, Chetraj Pandey, Prashnna K Gyawali and Robin Chataut |
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| 16:25 | INFER: Insider Framework for Modeling Temporal Risk Escalation via Signal Integration Christian Kengne, Nora Boulahia-Cuppens and Frederic Cuppens |
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| 16:45 | DBSec Business Meeting |
Wednesday 29 July
| EDT | Session Chair | |
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| 08:30 | Registration | |
| 09:00 | Session 4: AI Security and Privacy | R.K. Shyamasundar |
| 09:00 | IntraShuffler: A Privacy Preserving Framework for Heterogeneous DP Federated Learning Farhin Farhad Riya, Olivera Kotevska and Jinyuan Sun |
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| 09:25 | Improving SIEM Rules using Transformer-Based Rule Evasion Detection and Attribution Valency Oscar Colaco, Simin Nadjm-Tehrani, Erik Nordström and Hannes Widéen |
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| 09:50 | Differentially-Private Synthetic Visit Infilling with Transformers Andrei Ouatu, Gabriel Ghinita and Razvan Rughinis |
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| 10:15 | On Targeted Output Generation via Adversarial Reframing in Language Models Shahnewaz Karim Sakib, Swati Kar and Anindya Bijoy Das |
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| 10:35 | Coffee Break (25 min) | |
| 11:00 |
Keynote Talk Sharad Mehrotra, University of California, Irvine |
Pierangela Samarati |
| 12:00 | Lunch Break (60 min) | |
| 13:00 | Panel: IFIP WG 11.3 Conferences: Status and Prospects | |
| Moderator: Sushil Jajodia; Panelists: Vijay Atluri, Carl Landwehr, Pierangela Samarati, Ravi Sandhu, Bhavani Thuraisingham, Jaideep Vaidya | ||
| 14:30 | Break and Social Event | |
| 14:30 | Instructions for Social Event Megan Herceg, Local Arrangement Chair, George Mason University |
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| 14:45 | Break (2 hours) | |
| 16:45 | Departure for DC Tour Bus departs from conference venue. |
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| 18:30 | Dinner | |
| 20:30 | Return to Arlington Bus departs from restaurant. |
Thursday 30 July
| EDT | Session Chair | |
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| 09:10 | Session 5: Data Security and Privacy | Bruhadeshwar Bezawada |
| 09:10 | Dual Blind Indexes for Queryable Column-Level Encryption: A Two-Phase Pipeline with Quantifiable Leakage Bounds Roberto Gallo |
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| 09:35 | Anonymous Hierarchical Key Assignment Schemes Roberta Cimorelli Belfiore, Alfredo De Santis, Anna Lisa Ferrara, Manuela Flores and Barbara Masucci |
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| 10:00 | SOLSTICE: Optimising Verifiable Data Retrieval for Storage Nodes in Account-based Blockchains Nhi Luu, Asish Balasundaram and Sushmita Ruj |
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| 10:25 | Perfectly-Secure Graph-Based Distributed Secret Sharing Protocols Alfredo De Santis, Anna Lisa Ferrara and Barbara Masucci |
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| 10:45 | Break (20 min) | |
| 11:05 | Session 6: Threats and Attacks | Sushmita Ruj |
| 11:05 | A Novel Approach to SBOM Extraction from HTTP Messages in Identity Management Security Testing Andrea Bisegna, Laura Cristiano, Pietro De Matteis, Eleonora Marchesini, Luca Piras and Silvio Ranise |
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| 11:30 | In Sync or Sink? About Tactical Divides between Attackers and Defenders Johannes Grill, Daniel Oberhofer, Philip Empl, Stefan Schönig and Günther Pernul |
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| 11:55 | Towards Lightweight Reliability: Using Soft Prompts for Hallucination Mitigation in Large Language Models S M Tahmid Siddiqui, Akib Jawad Ononto, Anoop Singhal and Latifur Khan |
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| 12:20 | Lunch (50 min) | |
| 13:10 | Session 7: Security of Large Language Models and Blockchains | Barbara Masucci |
| 13:10 | Information Flow Control for Retrieval-Augmented LLM Chatbots Md Fazle Rasul, Hamed Aghayarzadeh and Indrakshi Ray |
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| 13:35 | BenchGuard: A Two-Layer Framework for Contamination-Aware Evaluation of LLM Vulnerability Detection Adiba Mahmud, Yasmeen Rawajfih, Hossain Shahriar and Ross Arnold |
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| 13:55 | Analysis of Fairness of Transaction Orders in Hedera and Classic Blockchains Rudrapatna Shyamasundar |
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| 14:20 | Data Poisoning in Longitudinal Local Differential Privacy: Attacks and Analysis Antonio Alves Marreiras Neto, Héber Hwang Arcolezi and Javam de Castro Machado |
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| 14:45 | Blurred Points, Clear Clusters: A Non-Interactive Framework for Locally Private Clustering Tijbe van der Ende, Mina Alishahi and Clara Maathuis |
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| 15:05 | Closing Remarks | |
| 15:15 | Conference Ends |
