Dynamic Security Analysis of Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams -- A Secure Encapsulation Schemes based on Key Recovery System -- Path Authentication Protocol: Based on a Lightweight MAC and a Nonlinear Filter Generator -- STRISA: A New Regulation Architecture to Enforce Travel Rule -- Post-Quantum Hash-Based Signatures for Secure Boot -- Exploring the Coverage of Existing Hardware Vulnerabilities in Community Standards -- MurQRI: Encrypted Multi-Layer QR Codes for Electronic Identity Management -- SpartanGold: A Blockchain for Education, Experimentation, and Rapid Prototyping -- BIOT: A blockchain-based IoT Platform for Distributed Energy Resource Management -- A Privacy Preserving E-voting System based on Blockchain -- Reconstructing Classification to Enhance Machine-Learning Based Network Intrusion Detection by Embracing Ambiguity -- ConTheModel: Can we modify tweets to confuse classifier models? -- A Systematic Approach to Building Autoencoders for Intrusion Detection -- An Attack on Quantum Circuits Based on the Error Rates of NISQ Systems and a Countermeasure -- Cryptocurrency with Multiple Sequence Alignment Proof-of-Work -- IoT Checker Using Timing Side-channel and Machine Learning.

This book constitutes selected and revised papers from the First Silicon Valley Cybersecurity Conference, held in San Jose, USA, in December 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held in a virtual format. The 9 full papers and 6 short papers presented in this volume were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 30 submissions. They present most recent research on dependability, reliability, and security to address cyber-attacks, vulnerabilities,faults, and errors in networks and systems.