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Contents

Special Issues of Journals and Handbooks

IEEE Transactions on Privacy. (Submission Due: On-going) [posted here 7/21/25]
Editor-in-Chief: Christopher W. Clifton

IEEE Transactions on Privacy (TP) provides a multidisciplinary forum for theoretical, methodological, engineering, and applications aspects of privacy and data protection. Privacy, in this context, is defined as the freedom from unauthorized intrusion in its broadest sense, arising from any activity in information collection, information processing, information dissemination, or invasion. Contributions to solving privacy problems in various application domains such as healthcare are also accepted. Purely theoretical papers with no potential application or purely developmental work without any methodological contribution or generalizability would not be in scope. To submit an article, please use the IEEE Author Portal. Detailed information on submitting your paper to an IEEE Computer Society publication can be found on the Author Guidelines page. 

For more information, please see https://www.computer.org/csdl/journals/pr.

Conference and Workshop Call-for-papers

MarCaS 2026 4th IEEE LCN Special Track on Maritime Communication and Security, Held in conjunction with the 51st Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (IEEE LCN 2026), Coimbra, Portugal, October 7 - 9, 2026. (Submission Due 25 May 2026) [posted here 4/20/26]
The MarCaS Special Track will help bring together research groups working at the intersection of maritime applications, communications technologies, and protocols, as well as IT and network security to share and discuss ideas, novel solutions, challenges, and recent developments. The Track solicits high quality and previously unpublished work in the maritime domain and the research field of the LCN to stimulate novel approaches for a safer and more resilient shipping. Join us for this exciting and timely Special Track at the Local Computer Network Conference!!!

For more information, please see https://garykessler.net/lcn_marcas/.

IEEE ACSAC 2026 IEEE Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, Los Angeles, CA, USA, December 7 - 11, 2026. (Submission Due 26 May 2026) [posted here 5/10/26]
The IEEE Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) brings together leading researchers and practitioners, along with a diverse group of security professionals drawn from academia, industry, and government, gathered to present and discuss the latest cybersecurity results and topics. With peer reviewed technical papers, invited talks, panels, national interest discussions, and workshops, ACSAC continues its core mission of investigating practical solutions for computer and network security technologies. As an internationally recognized forum where researchers, practitioners, and developers meet to learn and to exchange practical ideas and experiences in computer and network security, we invite you to submit your work. In addition to peer-reviewed papers on novel applied research, we also welcome case studies on real-world applications, panels featuring world experts, and workshops consisting of 1-2 day sessions on hot cybersecurity and privacy topics. ACSAC solicits papers offering novel contributions in any aspect of applied security research. We encourage papers with results that are demonstrably useful for improving cybersecurity and that address lessons learned from practical applications. In particular, we encourage the submission of papers related to our hard topic theme: Security and Privacy of Agentic Systems. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published elsewhere or that have been simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference with proceedings and are under review. Authors of accepted papers will be expected to present at the conference in person, with limited exceptions allowed on a case-by-case basis.

For more information, please see https://www.acsac.org.

APWG eCrime 2026 21st Symposium on Electronic Crime Research, Lisbon, Portugal, November 2 - 6, 2026. (Submission Due 30 May 2026) [posted here 3/2/26]
The 2026 APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime 2026) in Lisbon examines essential factors for managing the impacts of the global cybercrime plexus Ñ to secure IT users, commercial enterprises, governments, national infrastructures, and operational technologies. eCrime 2026 presents general session discussions from all stake-holding industries, research centers, and from counter-cybercrime experts from every discipline and sector, commercial cybercrime response enterprises, law enforcement agencies, NGOs, and multilateral organizations. As well, eCrime 2026 spotlights the accepted peer-reviewed papers of the 2026 edition of eCrime.

For more information, please see https://apwg.org/events/ecrime2026.

ProvSec 2026 20th International Conference on Provable and Practical Security, Queenstown, New Zealand, September 24 - 26, 2026. (Submission Due 31 May 2026) [posted here 4/27/26]
Provable security is a critical tool for analyzing the security of modern cryptographic primitives to achieve high assurance of trustworthy and secure cyber systems. ProvSec 2026 continues to promote "Practical Security" as its core theme, convening researchers and practitioners to provide a confluence of new practical cyber security technologies. Proceedings including all accepted papers will be published in Springer LNCS.

For more information, please see https://provsec-2026.github.io/Provsec2026-base/.

PETS 2027 27th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium, TBA (Europe), TBD, 2027. (Submission Due 31 May 2026, 31 August 2026, 30 November 2026, and 28 February 2027) [posted here 5/25/26]
The annual Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) brings together experts from around the world to present and discuss recent advances and new perspectives on research in privacy technologies. The 27th PETS is expected to be an event with a physical gathering held in somewhere in Europe (TBA). Papers undergo a journal-style reviewing process, and accepted papers are published in the journal Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETs). Authors of accepted papers are strongly encouraged to attend and present at the physical event, where their presentations can be recorded for the virtual event and where they can participate directly in in-person research, technical, and social activities. However, in-person attendance is not strictly required for publication in the proceedings. PoPETs, a scholarly, open-access journal for research papers on privacy, provides high-quality reviewing and publication while also supporting the successful PETS community event. PoPETs is self-published and does not have article processing charges or article submission charges.

For more information, please see https://petsymposium.org/cfp27.php.

TPS 2026 8th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Intelligent Systems, and Applications, San Jose, CA, USA, November 4 - 6, 2026. (Submission Due 1 June 2026) [posted here 4/27/26]
Recent advances in computing and information technologies such as IoT, mobile Edge/Cloud computing, cyber-physical-social systems, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning/ Deep Learning, etc., have paved way for creating next generation smart and intelligent systems and applications that can have transformative impact in our society while accelerating rapid scientific discoveries and innovations. Such newer technologies and paradigms are getting increasingly embedded in the computing platforms and networked information systems/infrastructures that form the digital foundation for our personal, organizational and social processes and activities. It is increasingly becoming critical that the trust, privacy and security issues in such digital environments are holistically addressed to ensure the safety and well-being of individuals as well as our society. IEEE International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Intelligent Systems, and Applications (IEEE TPS-ISA) is an international multidisciplinary forum for presentation of state-of-the-art innovations, and discussion among academic, industrial researchers, and practitioners on issues related to trust, privacy and security in emerging smart and intelligent systems and applications.

For more information, please see https://www.sis.pitt.edu/lersais/conference/tps/2026/.

RISC 2026 1st IEEE Conference on Resilience and Integrated Security for Space and Critical Systems, San Jose, CA, USA, November 4 - 6, 2026. (Submission Due 1 June 2026) [posted here 4/13/26]
Space technologies are no longer passive infrastructure; they are active drivers of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). Through global connectivity, remote sensing, and Earth observation, space systems now form the backbone of critical terrestrial operations. The growing involvement of commercial players and the democratization of space access are accelerating this transformation at an unprecedented pace.
Space systems are increasingly embedded within critical cyber-physical ecosystems, directly enabling and shaping autonomous transportation, smart energy grids, water treatment plants, disaster response, global communications, defense operations, space medicine, and deep-space exploration. This deep integration means that the security and resilience of space systems is no longer a niche concern. It is a foundational requirement for societal continuity.
Yet the unique operational environment of space introduces distinct and underexplored security challenges. Space systems depend on complex, long-lifecycle software and hardware exposed to supply chain manipulation, network-based intrusions, adversarial AI, electronic warfare, and nation-state threats. As these systems become increasingly intertwined with critical infrastructure on the ground, in the air, and in orbit, the attack surface expands in ways that existing security frameworks are not equipped to address.
RISC is the premier venue for security and resilience research where space systems are the subject, the enabler, or a point of failure. We welcome original submissions addressing the security and resilience of space systems, space-related assets, cyber-physical integration, supporting ground systems, and emerging threats across terrestrial and non-terrestrial critical systems. RISC places particular emphasis on high-consequence domains where space dependencies are least understood and unprotected: autonomous transportation, smart energy grids, space medicine, and deep-space human exploration. In these domains security failure carries severe consequences.

For more information, please see https://risc.ieee-cs.org/2026/.

SP 2027 48th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, Montreal, Canada, TBA, 2027. (Submission Due 4 June 2026 and 10 November 2026) [posted here 5/11/26]
Since 1980 in Oakland, the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy has been the premier forum for computer security research, presenting the latest developments and bringing together researchers and practitioners. We solicit previously unpublished papers offering novel research contributions in any aspect of security or privacy. Papers may present advances in the theory, design, implementation, analysis, verification, or empirical evaluation and measurement of secure systems. Theoretical papers must make a convincing case for the relevance of their results to practice. Topics of interest include:
- Applied cryptography
- Attacks with novel insights, techniques, or results
- Authentication, access control, and authorization
- Blockchains and distributed ledger security
- Cloud computing security
- Cyber physical systems security
- Distributed systems security
- Economics of security and privacy
- Embedded systems security
- Formal methods and verification
- Hardware security
- Hate, Harassment, and Online Abuse
- Intrusion detection and prevention
- Machine learning and computer security
- Malware and unwanted software
- Network security
- Operating systems security
- Privacy-enhancing technologies, anonymity, and censorship
- Program and binary analysis
- Protocol security
- Security and privacy metrics
- Security and privacy policies
- Security architectures
- Security foundations
- Systems security
- Usable security and privacy
- Web security
- Wireless and mobile security/privacy

This topic list is not meant to be exhaustive; S&P is interested in all aspects of computer security and privacy. Papers without a clear application to security or privacy, however, will be considered out of scope and may be rejected without full review.

Systematization of Knowledge Papers: As in past years, we solicit systematization of knowledge (SoK) papers that evaluate, systematize, and contextualize existing knowledge, as such papers can provide a high value to our community. Suitable papers are those that provide an important new viewpoint on an established, major research area, support or challenge long-held beliefs in such an area with compelling evidence, or present a convincing, comprehensive new taxonomy of such an area. Survey papers without such insights are not appropriate and may be rejected without full review. Submissions will be distinguished by the prefix ÒSoK:Ó in the title and a checkbox on the submission form. They will be reviewed by the full PC and held to the same standards as traditional research papers, but they will be accepted based on their treatment of existing work and value to the community, and not based on any new research results they may contain. Accepted papers will be presented at the symposium and included in the proceedings. You can find an overview of recent SoK papers at https://oaklandsok.github.io/.

Symposium Event (Important Changes): The number of papers accepted to IEEE S&P continues to grow substantially each year. Due to conference venue limitations and costs, each accepted paper will have: (a) a short talk presentation (e.g., 5-7 minutes, length determined based on the number of accepted papers) and (b) a poster presentation immediately following the talk session containing the paper. All accepted papers are required to present both a short talk and a poster.

For more information, please see https://sp2027.ieee-security.org/cfpapers.html.

XRSecurity 2026 2nd Workshop on Enhancing Security, Privacy, and Trust in Extended Reality (XR) Systems, Held in conjunction with the 32nd Annual International Conference On Mobile Computing And Networking (MobiCom 2026), Austin, Texas, USA, October 26 - 30, 2026. (Submission Due 5 June 2026) [posted here 4/13/26]
Extended Reality (XR) is a comprehensive term that includes Augmented Reality (AR), Mixed Reality (MR), Virtual Reality (VR), and AI glasses. XR bridges physical and digital worlds, creating interactive, immersive experiences that merge with the real world. It offers numerous applications across education, training, manufacturing, collaborative 3D design, art, and multiplayer gaming. Despite these benefits, XR systems introduce unique security, privacy, and trust challenges due to the intimate connection between users, their XR devices, and their immediate environments. The potential attacks can involve information flooding to induce latency and physical discomfort, injecting misleading virtual content to distract or deceive users, subverting personal area networks to create confusion, spoofing alarms, assessing user status through eye tracking, and accessing onboard cameras to gather environmental information without the user's awareness. Additionally, XR apps can access sensitive real-time inputs like eye gaze, head movement, hand gestures, and even biosignals, and users' immediate environment. These signals, while critical for immersive experiences, open up novel attack surfaces such as keystroke inference, emotional profiling, and behavioral tracking. This workshop will explore the security, privacy, and trust challenges in XR systems, along with potential solutions.

For more information, please see https://xrsecurity.github.io/2026/.

Hidden Layers 2026 1st European Workshop on Hidden Layers: Enterprise Risk, AI Forensics, and Image Security, Held in conjunction with the 30th International Conference on Enterprise Design, Operations, and Computing (EDOC 2026), Enschede, Netherlands, September 15 - 18, 2026. (Submission Due 12 June 2026) [posted here 4/27/26]
Modern enterprises increasingly rely on AI-driven systems and digital media, which introduces new security challenges. These include vulnerabilities discovered through forensic investigations, malicious content embedded in digital images, adversarial attacks on AI systems, and human-centric threats such as social engineering and insider attacks. By bringing together researchers, practitioners, and industry experts, HIDDEN LAYERS aims to: foster interdisciplinary collaboration, promote knowledge exchange between research and practice, and stimulate discussion on emerging methodologies, tools, and best practices in enterprise image security and forensic AI.

For more information, please see https://hidlayers-workshop.github.io/.

ISC 2026 29th Information Security Conference, Rennes, France, October 26 - 29, 2026. (Submission Due 22 June 2026) [posted here 5/11/26]
The Information Security Conference (ISC) is an annual international conference covering research in theory and applications of Information Security. ISC aims to attract high quality papers in all technical aspects of information security. It was first initiated as a workshop in Tatsunokuchi, Ishikawa, Japan in 1997, and then continued in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and Wollongong, Australia. It then changed to the current conference format when it was held in Malaga, Spain in 2001. We are looking for papers with high-quality, original, and unpublished research contributions. This includes submissions from academia, industry and government on traditional as well as emerging topics and new paradigms in these areas, with a clear connection to real-world problems, systems, or applications.

For more information, please see https://isc2026.github.io/.

CSCML 2026 10th International Symposium on Cyber Security, Cryptology, and Machine Learning, Virtual, December 3 - 4, 2026. (Submission Due 29 June 2026) [posted here 5/18/26]
CSCML is an international forum for researchers and practitioners working on the theory, design, analysis, implementation, and application of cybersecurity, cryptology, and machine learning systems and networks. We especially encourage conceptually innovative contributions. The Symposium will have three tracks: Academic Research Track, Entrepreneurship Pitch Track, and PhD Masters Student Research Track. Submissions to these tracks will be evaluated soley by academic merit.

For more information, please see https://www.cscml.org.

SSS 2026 28th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems, Gothenburg, Sweden, October 9 - 11, 2026. (Submission Due 31 March 2026, 15 May 2026, and 15 July 2026) [posted here 3/9/26]
SSS is an international forum for researchers and practitioners in the design and development of distributed systems with a focus on systems that are able to provide guarantees on their structure, performance, and/or security in the face of an adverse operational environment. The symposium encourages submissions of original contributions on both fundamental research and practical applications concerning topics in the symposium tracks.

For more information, please see https://sss2026-submission.limos.fr/.

ACM PQQS 2026 1st ACM Conference on Post-Quantum and Quantum-based Security, San Jose, CA, USA, November 2 - 4, 2026. (Submission Due 24 July 2026) [posted here 5/10/26]
ACM SIGSAC announces the inaugural ACM Conference on Post-Quantum and Quantum-based Security (PQQS). PQQS is a new annual venue focused on research at the intersection of security, post-quantum cryptography, and quantum computing systems and infrastructures. The ACM Conference on Post-Quantum and Quantum-based Security (PQQS) is expected to be a premier forum dedicated to research at the intersection of cybersecurity and quantum technologies. The inaugural edition of PQQS establishes a new international forum dedicated to the theory and practice of information security in the emerging quantum era. The conference brings together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government to advance both foundational and applied aspects of classical (including post-quantum and information-theoretic) and quantum approaches to information security, and to explore novel applications of quantum information. It aims to provide a unified venue for rigorous, forward-looking research addressing the challenges of securing information in a quantum-enabled world. The conference spans quantum-enabled security systems, quantum-safe security approaches (including post-quantum and information-theoretic methods), and security of quantum systems bringing together perspectives from theory, systems, deployment, and standardization.

For more information, please see https://acm-pqqs.github.io/pqqs2026/.

HealthSec 2026 3rd Workshop on Cybersecurity in Healthcare, Co-located with the IEEE Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (IEEE ACSAC 2026), Los Angeles, CA, USA, December 8 2026. (Submission Due 24 July 2026) [posted here 5/10/26]
In its most basic form, healthcare is gathering data, interpreting data into information, and transforming information into current human knowledge that can be acted upon, with each of these stages open to unintended errors and/or malicious subversion. These stages do not occur within a vacuum but rather within our existing infrastructures and social system with all their current limitations, systemic bias, and exploitable vulnerabilities. While a similar characterization can be made about security in other applied domains, healthcare is undergoing a dramatic transformation, arguably a technological revolution, presenting ground-breaking opportunities for improvement along with corresponding challenges in security. Our desire is to bring together diverse researchers from academia, government, and the healthcare industry to report on the latest research efforts. As this is the third workshop, we want to continue momentum toward encouraging, jumpstarting, and growing excellent interdisciplinary contributions at the forefront of cybersecurity in healthcare research. Papers with demonstrated results will be given priority.

For more information, please see https://publish.illinois.edu/healthsec2026/.

USENIX Security 2027 36th USENIX Security Symposium, Denver, CO, USA, August 11 - 13, 2027. (Submission Due 18 August 2026 and 19 January 2027) [posted here 5/25/26]
The USENIX Security Symposium brings together researchers, practitioners, system programmers, and others interested in the latest advances in the security and privacy of computer systems and networks.

Interested in serving on the program committee? The program co-chairs invite self-nominations from both senior and junior members from the community via the Reviewer Management System (RMS) by Thursday, May 28, 2026.

For more information, please see https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity27.

NDSS 2027 Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, Seoul, Republic of Korea, March 22 - 26, 2027. (Submission Due 6 May 2026 and 19 August 2026) [posted here 5/25/26]
The Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium is a top venue that fosters information exchange among researchers and practitioners of network and distributed system security. The target audience includes everyone interested in practical aspects of network and distributed system security, with a focus on system design and implementation. A major goal is to encourage and enable the Internet community to apply, deploy, and advance the state of practical security technologies. This call solicits technical papers. Authors are encouraged to write the abstract and introduction of their paper in a way that makes the results accessible and compelling to a general security researcher. All submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee and accepted submissions will be published by the Internet Society in the Proceedings of NDSS Symposium 2027. The Proceedings will be made freely accessible from the Internet Society web pages. Furthermore, permission to freely reproduce all or parts of papers for noncommercial purposes is granted provided that copies bear the Internet Society notice included on the first page of the paper. The authors are thus free to post the camera-ready versions of their papers on their personal pages and within their institutional repositories. Reproduction for commercial purposes is strictly prohibited and requires prior consent.

For more information, please see https://www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss2027/submissions/call-for-papers/.

PETS 2027 27th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium, TBA (Europe), TBD, 2027. (Submission Due 31 May 2026, 31 August 2026, 30 November 2026 and 28 February 2027) [posted here 5/25/26]
The annual Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) brings together experts from around the world to present and discuss recent advances and new perspectives on research in privacy technologies. The 27th PETS is expected to be an event with a physical gathering held in somewhere in Europe (TBA). Papers undergo a journal-style reviewing process, and accepted papers are published in the journal Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETs). Authors of accepted papers are strongly encouraged to attend and present at the physical event, where their presentations can be recorded for the virtual event and where they can participate directly in in-person research, technical, and social activities. However, in-person attendance is not strictly required for publication in the proceedings. PoPETs, a scholarly, open-access journal for research papers on privacy, provides high-quality reviewing and publication while also supporting the successful PETS community event. PoPETs is self-published and does not have article processing charges or article submission charges.

For more information, please see https://petsymposium.org/cfp27.php.

SP 2027 48th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, Montreal, Canada, TBA, 2027. (Submission Due 4 June 2026 and 10 November 2026) [posted here 5/11/26]
Since 1980 in Oakland, the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy has been the premier forum for computer security research, presenting the latest developments and bringing together researchers and practitioners. We solicit previously unpublished papers offering novel research contributions in any aspect of security or privacy. Papers may present advances in the theory, design, implementation, analysis, verification, or empirical evaluation and measurement of secure systems. Theoretical papers must make a convincing case for the relevance of their results to practice. Topics of interest include:
- Applied cryptography
- Attacks with novel insights, techniques, or results
- Authentication, access control, and authorization
- Blockchains and distributed ledger security
- Cloud computing security
- Cyber physical systems security
- Distributed systems security
- Economics of security and privacy
- Embedded systems security
- Formal methods and verification
- Hardware security
- Hate, Harassment, and Online Abuse
- Intrusion detection and prevention
- Machine learning and computer security
- Malware and unwanted software
- Network security
- Operating systems security
- Privacy-enhancing technologies, anonymity, and censorship
- Program and binary analysis
- Protocol security
- Security and privacy metrics
- Security and privacy policies
- Security architectures
- Security foundations
- Systems security
- Usable security and privacy
- Web security
- Wireless and mobile security/privacy

This topic list is not meant to be exhaustive; S&P is interested in all aspects of computer security and privacy. Papers without a clear application to security or privacy, however, will be considered out of scope and may be rejected without full review.

Systematization of Knowledge Papers: As in past years, we solicit systematization of knowledge (SoK) papers that evaluate, systematize, and contextualize existing knowledge, as such papers can provide a high value to our community. Suitable papers are those that provide an important new viewpoint on an established, major research area, support or challenge long-held beliefs in such an area with compelling evidence, or present a convincing, comprehensive new taxonomy of such an area. Survey papers without such insights are not appropriate and may be rejected without full review. Submissions will be distinguished by the prefix ÒSoK:Ó in the title and a checkbox on the submission form. They will be reviewed by the full PC and held to the same standards as traditional research papers, but they will be accepted based on their treatment of existing work and value to the community, and not based on any new research results they may contain. Accepted papers will be presented at the symposium and included in the proceedings. You can find an overview of recent SoK papers at https://oaklandsok.github.io/.

Symposium Event (Important Changes): The number of papers accepted to IEEE S&P continues to grow substantially each year. Due to conference venue limitations and costs, each accepted paper will have: (a) a short talk presentation (e.g., 5-7 minutes, length determined based on the number of accepted papers) and (b) a poster presentation immediately following the talk session containing the paper. All accepted papers are required to present both a short talk and a poster.

For more information, please see https://sp2027.ieee-security.org/cfpapers.html.

PETS 2027 27th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium, TBA (Europe), TBD, 2027. (Submission Due 31 May 2026, 31 August 2026, 30 November 2026 and 28 February 2027) [posted here 5/25/26]
The annual Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) brings together experts from around the world to present and discuss recent advances and new perspectives on research in privacy technologies. The 27th PETS is expected to be an event with a physical gathering held in somewhere in Europe (TBA). Papers undergo a journal-style reviewing process, and accepted papers are published in the journal Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETs). Authors of accepted papers are strongly encouraged to attend and present at the physical event, where their presentations can be recorded for the virtual event and where they can participate directly in in-person research, technical, and social activities. However, in-person attendance is not strictly required for publication in the proceedings. PoPETs, a scholarly, open-access journal for research papers on privacy, provides high-quality reviewing and publication while also supporting the successful PETS community event. PoPETs is self-published and does not have article processing charges or article submission charges.

For more information, please see https://petsymposium.org/cfp27.php.

USENIX Security 2027 36th USENIX Security Symposium, Denver, CO, USA, August 11 Ð 13, 2027. (Submission Due 18 August 2026 and 19 January 2027) [posted here 5/25/26]
The USENIX Security Symposium brings together researchers, practitioners, system programmers, and others interested in the latest advances in the security and privacy of computer systems and networks.

Interested in serving on the program committee? The program co-chairs invite self-nominations from both senior and junior members from the community via the Reviewer Management System (RMS) by Thursday, May 28, 2026.

For more information, please see https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity27.

PETS 2027 27th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium, TBA (Europe), TBD, 2027. (Submission Due 31 May 2026, 31 August 2026, 30 November 2026 and 28 February 2027) [posted here 5/25/26]
The annual Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) brings together experts from around the world to present and discuss recent advances and new perspectives on research in privacy technologies. The 27th PETS is expected to be an event with a physical gathering held in somewhere in Europe (TBA). Papers undergo a journal-style reviewing process, and accepted papers are published in the journal Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETs). Authors of accepted papers are strongly encouraged to attend and present at the physical event, where their presentations can be recorded for the virtual event and where they can participate directly in in-person research, technical, and social activities. However, in-person attendance is not strictly required for publication in the proceedings. PoPETs, a scholarly, open-access journal for research papers on privacy, provides high-quality reviewing and publication while also supporting the successful PETS community event. PoPETs is self-published and does not have article processing charges or article submission charges.

For more information, please see https://petsymposium.org/cfp27.php.

Archival Journals Regularly Specializing in Security and Privacy

Journal of Privacy Technology (JOPT),   Editor-in-Chief:  Latanya Sweeney
This online-only Journal, started in 2004 and  operated by Carnegie Mellon University, is a forum for the publication of original current research in privacy technology. It encourages the submission of any material dealing primarily with the technological aspects of privacy or with the privacy aspects of technology, which may include analysis of the interaction between policy and technology or the technological implications of legal decisions.  More information can be found at http://www.jopt.org/.

IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine,   Editor-in-Chief: Shari Lawrence Pfleeger
IEEE Security & Privacy provides a unique combination of research articles, case studies, tutorials, and regular departments covering diverse aspects of information assurance such as legal and ethical issues, privacy concerns, tools to help secure information, analysis of vulnerabilities and attacks, trends and new developments, pedagogical and curricular issues in educating the next generation of security professionals, secure operating systems and applications, security issues in wireless networks, design and test strategies for secure and survivable systems, and cryptology.  More information can be found at http://www.computer.org/portal/web/computingnow/securityandprivacy.

ACM Transactions on Information and System Security,   Editor-in-Chief: Gene Tsudik
ACM invites submissions for its Transactions on Information and System Security, inaugurated in November 1998. TISSEC publishes original archival-quality research papers and technical notes in all areas of information and system security including technologies, systems, applications, and policies. Papers should have practical relevance to the construction, evaluation, application, or operation of secure systems. Theoretical papers will be accepted only if there is convincing argument for the practical significance of the results. Theory must be justified by convincing examples illustrating its application. More information is given on the journal web page at http://www.acm.org/tissec.

IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing,   Editor-in-Chief: Ravi Sandhu
The IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing publishes archival research results related to research into foundations, methodologies, and mechanisms that support the achievement—through design, modeling, and evaluation—of systems and networks that are dependable and secure to the desired degree without compromising performance. The focus will also include measurement, modeling, and simulation techniques, and foundations for jointly evaluating, verifying, and designing for performance, security, and dependability constraints. More information is given on the journal web page at http://www.computer.org/portal/web/tdsc.

The Springer Series on ADVANCES IN INFORMATION SECURITY
The purpose of the Advances in Information Security book series is to establish the state of the art and set the course for future research in information security. The scope of this series includes not only all aspects of computer, network security, and cryptography, but related areas, such as fault tolerance and software assurance. The series serves as a central source of reference for information security research and developments. The series aims to publish thorough and cohesive overviews on specific topics in Information Security, as well as works that are larger in scope than survey articles and that will contain more detailed background information. The series also provides a single point of coverage of advanced and timely topics and a forum for topics that may not have reached a level of maturity to warrant a comprehensive textbook. Prospective Authors or Editors: If you have an idea for a book that would fit in this series, we would welcome the opportunity to review your proposal. Should you wish to discuss any potential project further or receive specific information regarding book proposal requirements, please contact Professor Sushil Jajodia (jajodia@gmu.edu,703-993-1653).
 
Journal of Computer Security,   Editor-in-Chief: John Mitchell and Pierangela Samarati
JCS is an archival research journal for significant advances in computer security. Subject areas include architecture, operating systems, database systems, networks, authentication, distributed systems, formal models, verification, algorithms, mechanisms, and policies. All papers must be submitted online at http://www.iospress.nl/journal/journal-of-computer-security/. More information is given on the journal web page at http://jcs.stanford.edu/.
 
Computers & Security,   Editor-in-Chief: Eugene H. Spafford
Computers & Security aims to satisfy the needs of managers and experts involved in computer security by providing a blend of research developments, innovations, and practical management advice. Original submissions on all computer security topics are invited, particularly those of practical benefit to the practitioner. All papers must be submitted online at http://ees.elsevier.com/cose/. More information can be found at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/issn/01674048.
 
International Journal of Information Security,   Editors-in-Chief: D. Gollmann; J. Lopez; E. Okamoto
The International Journal of Information Security, IJIS, aims to provide prompt publication of important technical work in information security, attracting any person interested in communications, commerce, banking, medicine, or other areas of endeavor affected by information security. Any research submission on theory, applications, and implementations of information security is welcomed. This includes, but is not limited to, system security, network security, content protection, applications and foundations of information security. More information is given on the journal web page at http://www.springer.com/computer/security+and+cryptology/journal/10207.
 
International Journal of Network Security,   Editors-in-Chief: Min-Shiang Hwang
International Journal of Network Security is an international official journal of Science Publications, publishing original articles, reviews and short communications of a high scientific and technology in network security. Subjects covered include: access control, computer security, cryptography, communications security, data security, database security, electronic commerce security, information security, multimedia security, and network security. Authors are strongly encouraged to submit their papers electronically by using online manuscript submission at http://ijns.nchu.edu.tw/, or submit their Word, ps or pdf file to the editor-in-chief (via Email: mshwang@isrc.nchu.edu.tw): Min-Shiang Hwang, at the Department of Management Information Systems, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan, R.O.C.  More information can be found at http://ijns.femto.com.tw/.
 
International Journal of Security and Networks,   Editors-in-Chief: Yang Xiao
International Journal of Security and Networks is an archival research journal for significant advances in network security. Subject areas include attack models, security mechanisms, security services, authentication, authorization, access control, multicast security, data confidentiality, data integrity, non-repudiation, forensics, privacy protection, secure protocols, formal analyses, intrusion detection, key management, trust establishment, revocation of malicious parties, security policies, fraudulent usage, dependability and reliability, prevention of traffic analysis, network security performance evaluation, tradeoff analysis between performance and security, security standards, etc. All papers must be submitted online at http://www.inderscience.com/ijsn/. More information is given on the journal web page at http://www.inderscience.com/ijsn/.
 
International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection,   Editors-in-Chief: Sujeet Shenoi
International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection's primary aim is to publish high quality scientific and policy papers in all areas of critical infrastructure protection. Of particular interest are articles that weave science, technology and policy to craft sophisticated yet practical solutions that will secure information, computer and network assets in the various critical infrastructure sectors. All papers must be submitted online at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/ijcip. More information is given on the journal web page at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/ijcip.
 
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security,   Editors-in-Chief: C.-C. Jay Kuo
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security aims to provide a unified locus for archival research on the fundamental contributions and the mathematics behind information forensics, information security, surveillance, and systems applications that incorporate these features. Authors are strongly encouraged to submit their papers electronically to the online manuscript system, Manuscript Central, via sps-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com.  More information can be found at http://www.ieee.org/organizations/society/sp/tifs.html.
 
IEEE Transactions on Privacy,   Editor-in-Chief: Christopher W. Clifton
IEEE Transactions on Privacy (TP) provides a multidisciplinary forum for theoretical, methodological, engineering, and applications aspects of privacy and data protection. Privacy, in this context, is defined as the freedom from unauthorized intrusion in its broadest sense, arising from any activity in information collection, information processing, information dissemination, or invasion. Contributions to solving privacy problems in various application domains such as healthcare are also accepted. Purely theoretical papers with no potential application or purely developmental work without any methodological contribution or generalizability would not be in scope. To submit an article, please use the IEEE Author Portal. Detailed information on submitting your paper to an IEEE Computer Society publication can be found on the Author Guidelines page.  More information can be found at https://www.computer.org/csdl/journals/pr.
 
EURASIP Journal on Information Security,   Editors-in-Chief: Stefan Katzenbeisser
EURASIP Journal on Information Security aims to bring together researchers and practitioners dealing with the general field of information security, with a particular emphasis on the use of signal processing tools in adversarial environments. As such, it addresses all works whereby security is achieved through a combination of techniques from cryptography, computer security, machine learning and multimedia signal processing. Application domains lie, for example, in secure storage, retrieval and tracking of multimedia data, secure outsourcing of computations, forgery detection of multimedia data, or secure use of biometrics. The journal also welcomes survey papers that give the reader a gentle introduction to one of the topics covered as well as papers that report large-scale experimental evaluations of existing techniques. Pure cryptographic papers are outside the scope of the journal. The journal also welcomes proposals for Special Issues. All papers must be submitted online at http://jis.eurasipjournals.com/manuscript.  More information can be found at http://jis.eurasipjournals.com.