Gabriela Nicolescu (editor) - Foundations and Practice of Security: 13th International Symposium, FPS 2020, Montreal, QC, Canada, December 1–3, 2020, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 12637)

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This volume contains the papers presented at the 13th International Symposium on Foundations and Practice of Security (FPS 2020). The symposium was scheduled to be held at Polytechnique Montral (Canada) on 1, 2, and 3 December 2020. Exceptionally, due to COVID-19, FPS 2020 was held as a virtual event.

The symposium received 23 submissions, from countries all over the world. At least two reviews were made for each paper. The Program Committee selected 11 full papers and 1 short paper. The program covers diverse security research themes including Analysis and Detection, Prevention and Efficiency, Privacy by Design, and Digital Identities. The program was complemented with two keynote presentations by Christine Beauchamp (from the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security, Canada) and Dr. Syrine Tlili, (from the National Digital Certification Agency, Tunisia); and some panel discussions.

We would like to thank all the authors who submitted their research results, allowing us to create the 2020 program of FPS. We greatly thank the local organization committee, Militza Jean, Kacem Khaled, and Henrique Amaral Misson (all three from Polytechnique Montral); as well as the external reviewers, the steering committee members, and the publications chair, Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro. We also want to express our gratitude to all the attendees. Last, but by no means least, we want to thank all the sponsors for making the event possible.

We hope the articles contained in this proceedings volume will be valuable for your professional activities in the area.