Conference Description
Key Takeaways
- Technical symposium addressing security and privacy challenges across ground, aerial, water, and space vehicles
- Covers in-vehicle networks, autonomous systems, connectivity, and human-machine interfaces
- Brings together university researchers, industry professionals, and government representatives
- Features paper presentations, demos, posters, lightning talks, and tutorials
About the Symposium
The 5th USENIX Symposium on Vehicle Security and Privacy (VehicleSec ’27) is a research-focused conference held in Denver, CO. Now in its fifth year, the symposium serves as a forum for advancing technical knowledge on securing vehicles and their supporting infrastructures. The event format includes paper presentations, demonstrations, poster sessions, lightning talks, and tutorials, providing multiple channels for sharing research findings and technical developments.
Technical Scope
VehicleSec ’27 examines security and privacy across a broad spectrum of vehicle types and their sub-systems. Topics span in-vehicle networks, autonomy, connectivity, and human-machine interfaces. The symposium also addresses supporting technologies including wireless and real-time computing, edge computing, location services, simulation, and digital twins. Transportation infrastructure elements such as charging stations and ground control systems fall within scope, as do multi-agent protocols and sensing and control systems.
Critical Infrastructure and Emerging Threats
The symposium addresses challenges at the intersection of cybersecurity, automotive technology, intelligent transportation systems, and critical infrastructure protection. As vehicles become increasingly connected and autonomous, the attack surface expands to include not only the vehicles themselves but also the ecosystems supporting them. VehicleSec provides a venue for examining these interdependencies and developing approaches to protect against emerging cyber threats.
Who Should Attend
The symposium targets security researchers, automotive engineers, cybersecurity analysts, system architects, R&D managers, and policy makers. Attendees typically come from academia, automotive and aerospace industries, transportation sectors, and government agencies working on vehicle security, privacy, and safe deployment of connected and autonomous vehicle technologies.