International Workshop on Cyber Forensics, Security, and E-discovery (CFSE 2026)

Description

To battle with cybercrimes, investigate online financial frauds, and mediate personal digital property disputes, cyber forensics, security, and e-discovery professionals and researchers are always working hand in hand. Due to the nature of cyberspace, these three fields are built on the same digital foundation that provides numerous similarities in law practice, legal procedures, investigation strategies, evidence handling, research methodologies, implementation platforms, and application tools.

The theme of this workshop is to advance the research in the conjunction of Cyber Forensics, Security, and E-discovery with a data-intelligent-driven, legal-proceedings-enforced, and innovative-interdisciplinary-promoted approach. While a digital forensic professional needs to work on security or join a team for mediating a digital property from time to time, a researcher in digital forensics should also think about the impact of their work on security and e-discovery. This is also true for professionals and researchers who are working in the fields of security and e-discovery. Therefore, we intend to establish a forum where all the researchers and practitioners in these three fields can share their latest findings and experiences while having a chance to learn what is happening in these sister fields. Not only do they ask questions and discuss their concerns in others' presentations, but they also have the opportunity to hear what the concerns and impact of their research are on these sister fields. As the technology keeps its unthinkable pace of advance, everything seems to become closer and more similar to each other. We believe that the effort made by this workshop will promote collaboration among these three fields and enrich as well as expand their research and practice.

Topics

The list of topics includes, but is not limited to:

• Application of AI to Cyber Forensics and eDiscovery (AI for Forensics)
• Augmented and Virtual Reality Forensics and Security
• Blockchain Technology in Cyber Forensics, Cybersecurity, and E-discovery
• Cloud Forensics/Fog Forensics, Security, and E-discovery
• Cyber Defense/Offense/Operation
• Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) Forensics and Security
• Curriculum Development in Digital Forensics, Cybersecurity, and E-discovery
• Data-Driven Cybersecurity, Incident Response, and E-discovery
• Digital Evidence Classification and the Law
• Electronic Discovery and Fraud Detection/Investigation
• Forensic Testing/Cyber Crime Simulation
• Game/Virtual World Forensics
• Image Forensics/Information Hiding Technology
• Incident Response and Forensics for AI-based Systems (Forensics for AI)
• IoT (Internet of Things) Forensics, Security, and E-discovery
• Legal, Ethical, and Privacy Issues in Computing
• Malware and Intrusion Detection and Penetration Testing
• Machine Learning and Data Mining for Digital Evidence and Investigation
• Quantum Computing Forensics/Next Generation Forensics
• Risk Analysis in Security, Safety, Privacy, and Forensics Applications
• SCADA/Critical Infrastructures Forensics
• Social Networking Forensics, Security, and E-discovery
• Software Application Forensics/E-discovery (Medical, Financial, and Governmental)
• Software Forensics and Profiling
• System Software Forensics and Security
• Ubiquitous/Mobile/iPhone Forensic Computing and Cybersecurity
• Vehicle and Drone Forensics
• Visualization of Computer/Digital Forensics, Security, and E-discovery

Submission

Authors are invited to submit original unpublished research papers as well as industrial practice papers. Simultaneous submissions to other conferences are not permitted. Detailed instructions for electronic paper submission, panel proposals, and review process can be found at QRS submission.

Each submission can have a maximum of ten pages. It should include a title, the name and affiliation of each author, a 300-word abstract, and up to 6 keywords. Shorter version papers (up to six pages) are also allowed.

All papers must conform to the QRS conference proceedings format (PDF | Word DOCX | Latex) and Submission Guideline set in advance by QRS 2026. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper is required to pay the full registration fee and present the paper at the workshop. Submissions must be in PDF format and uploaded to the conference submission site. Arrangements are being made to publish an extended version of top-quality papers in selected SCI journals.

General Chairs

Ryoichi Sasaki

Tokyo Denki University, Japan

Tetsutaro Uehara

Ritsumeikan University, Japan

Jigang Liu

Metropolitan State University, USA

Program Chair

Songpon Teerakanok

Mahidol University, Thailand

Program Committee

Previous CFSE

• CFSE 2025 - Hangzhou (in conjunction with QRS 2025)
• CFSE 2024 - Cambridge (in conjunction with QRS 2024)
• CFSE 2023 - Chiang Mai (in conjunction with QRS 2023)
• CFSE 2022 - Guangzhou (in conjunction with QRS 2022)
• CFSE 2021 - Hainan Island (in conjunction with QRS 2021)
• CFSE 2020 - Macau (in conjunction with QRS 2020)