This Workshop aims to bring together researchers and professionals interested in the intersection of cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and human factors in socio-technical systems. The goal is to explore the emerging challenges associated with the protection of systems where technical, organizational and human components converge.

The Workshop will provide an informal environment for discussion:

• New attack and defense strategies in hybrid human-technological systems.
• Applications of artificial intelligence in cybersecurity, including detection, automation and threat analysis.
• Methodological approaches and conceptual frameworks for the design, evaluation and management of secure systems.
• Impact of AI and Cybersecurity on the Digital Society.

We invite researchers, professionals and students to submit contributions for the workshop Human-Centered Cybersecurity and AI: Challenges, Methods and applications, to be held in the framework of JCC 2026 at the University of Talca. The workshop seeks to address current challenges in cibersecurity considering the interaction between emerging technologies, complex systems and human behavior.

Topics of interest:

Artificial Intelligence in Cybersecurity

Machine Learning applied to threat detection..

Security in AI-based attack systems.

Attack and defense strategies in hybrid human-technological systems.

Human Factors in Cybersecurity

Social engineering and user behavior.

Usability and security.

Training and awareness in security

Intelligent Agent-Based Systems

Security in autonomous agents and multi-agent systems.

Evaluation and validation of AI-based systems.

Risks and vulnerabilities in agent-based architectures.

Models and metrics for analysis of agentic systems.

Security of systems and networks.

Vulnerability Analysis.

Secure architectures.

Security in cloud, edge and distributed systems.

Operations and security management.

DevSecOps

SOAR and automation

Threat Intelligence and incident response.

Governance, Ethics and Regulation.

Regulatory frameworks for cybersecurity.

Ethics in the use of artificial intelligence.

Privacy and data protection.

• Articles must be formatted according to the IEEE-CS proceedings format. The article should be between 4 and 8 pages long including figures and references. The IEEE format is available at: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html.
• Submissions must be made through the Microsoft's Conference Management Toolkit.
• By submitting a paper, authors implicitly accept that at least one author must be registered and present the paper at the conference. Only articles that have been presented during the conference and comply with the IEEE quality review standards, will be published in the proceedings and sent to IEEE Xplore, which is charge of indexing in Scopus.

• Paper Submission Deadline: August 3rd, 2026 August 10th, 2026
• Notification of Acceptance: August 17th, 2026 August 21st, 2026
• Final Version (Camera-Ready): August 24th, 2026 August 31st, 2026