Organizers:

• Gurvirender P.S. Tejay (Zarb School of Business, Hofstra University, New York, USA)
• Kai Rannenberg (Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany)
• Ümit Cali (University of York, York, UK)
• Rajendra Raj (Rochester Institute of Technology, New York, USA)
• Travis Breaux (Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania, USA)
• Ernesto Cuadross-Vargas (National University of Engineering, Lima, Peru)
• Sara Foresti (Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy)
• Andrew McGettrick (University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland)
• Tamara Bonaci (Northeastern University, Washington, USA)
• Surya Prakash Nalluri (Citigroup, Texas, USA)

Special Session Description:

As digital privacy concerns intensify across technology and communication sectors, there is a critical gap in specialized graduate education for privacy professionals. To address this, a global consortium including ACM, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Digital Privacy Initiative, and IFIP has crafted a unified Privacy Curricular Guideline. This framework outlines eight core knowledge domains - spanning technical, legal, and applied dimensions - essential for training privacy engineers and policymakers. This special session introduces the guideline's innovative design and invites participants to collaboratively enhance its applicability through interactive discussions. Following the special session, attendees will be invited to join one of the initiative's Working Groups to contribute directly to the ongoing development of the guideline. Their expertise will be critical in finalizing a global framework that supports both academic programs and industry needs. With privacy topics currently fragmented across security courses, this initiative seeks to consolidate and elevate privacy education, empowering graduates to meet the complex demands of emerging privacy roles in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.

This special session is open to all IWSEC2025 participants.