Calls for Papers

Last Modified:12/8/25

Upcoming Conferences and Workshops

Note: The submission date has passed.

ACSAC 2025 41th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, December 8-12, 2025. [posted here 4/14/25]
The 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.

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

HealthSec 2025 Workshop on Cybersecurity in Healthcare, Co-located with the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC41), Honolulu, HI, USA, December 9, 2025. [posted here 6/2/25]
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 the next technological revolution, presenting immediate 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 second workshop following a first workshop that exceeded all expectations, 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/healthsec2025/.

ICISS 2025 21st International Conference on Information Systems Security, Indore, India, December 16-20, 2025. [posted here 4/14/25]
ICISS is a premier international conference on information security and privacy. The ICISS conference provides a dynamic platform for researchers, academicians, and industry professionals worldwide to discuss and explore advancements in cybersecurity, cryptography, system security, and hardware security. Since its inception in 2005, the conference has fostered impactful research collaborations, addressing emerging security challenges in computing and information systems. With keynote talks by leading experts, technical paper presentations, hands-on workshops, and panel discussions, ICISS 2025 aims to facilitate knowledge exchange and shape the future of digital security.

For more information, please see https://iciss.isrdc.in.

IFIP 119 DF 2026 22nd Annual IFIP WG 11.9 International Conference on Digital Forensics, New Delhi, India, January 5-6, 2026. [posted here 6/9/25]
The IFIP Working Group 11.9 on Digital Forensics (www.ifip119.org) is an active international community of scientists, engineers and practitioners dedicated to advancing the state of the art of research and practice in digital forensics. The Twenty-Second Annual IFIP WG 11.9 International Conference on Digital Forensics will provide a forum for presenting original, unpublished research results and innovative ideas related to the extraction, analysis and preservation of all forms of electronic evidence. Papers and panel proposals are solicited. All submissions will be refereed by a program committee comprising members of the Working Group. Papers and panel submissions will be selected based on their technical merit and relevance to IFIP WG 11.9. The conference will be limited to approximately 60 participants to facilitate interactions between researchers and intense discussions of critical research issues. Keynote presentations, revised papers and details of panel discussions will be published as an edited volume – the twenty-second volume in the well-known Research Advances in Digital Forensics book series (Springer, Cham, Switzerland) during the summer of 2026.

For more information, please see http://www.ifip119.org/.

NDSS 2026 Network and Distributed System Security, San Diego, CA, USA, February 23-27, 2026. [posted here 4/14/25]
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 NDSS Symposium 2026 and co-located workshops will take place in San Diego, CA, from 23 to 27 February 2026. 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 2026. 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/ndss2026/submissions/call-for-papers/.

SaTML 2026 4th IEEE Conference on Secure and Trustworthy Machine Learning, Munich, Germany, March 23-25, 2026. [posted here 7/7/25]
IEEE SaTML expands upon the theoretical and practical understandings of vulnerabilities inherent to machine learning (ML), explores the robustness of learning algorithms and systems, and aids in developing a unified, coherent scientific community aiming to establish trustworthy machine learning. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- Novel attacks on machine learning
- Novel defenses for machine learning
- Secure and safe machine learning in practice
- Verification of algorithms and systems
- Privacy in machine learning
- Forensic analysis of machine learning
- Fairness and interpretability
- Trustworthy data curation

For more information, please see https://satml.org/.

SP 2026 47th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, San Francisco, CA, USA, May 18 - 21, 2026. [posted here 3/24/25]
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 “SoK:” 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://sp2026.ieee-security.org/cfpapers.html.