Cybersecurity Education and Research Conference (CERC) is a joint venture between Kuwait and the UK. CERC2025 supports the Kuwait-UK Memorandum of Understanding on Cyber Security signed in 2018, which points to (amongst other areas) engagement in both education and research. The conference has established traditions and is organized by the Kuwait College of Science and Technology (KCST), in partnership with the UK government, led by the British Embassy in Kuwait, and the UK Science & Innovation Network (SIN) and other organizations. The conference will take place at the Kuwait College of Science & Technology (KCST) Auditorium on 15-16 October 2025 with support for accommodating international speakers and pre-registered attendees. The conference will be Technically Co-located with 7th International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications (BCCA 2025).

What makes CERC distinguished this year is that accepted technical papers presented at the conference will be published in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library, which is indexed by all major indexing agencies, as part of the proceedings of the 7th IEEE BCCA conference. Selected high-quality papers may be invited for extended versions in special journal issues.