Important updates!

We are proud to announce that the CSF 2021 paper "Verifying Hyperproperties with Temporal Logic of Actions (TLA)" by Leslie Lamport and Fred B. Schneider won the NSA 10th Annual Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper Competition. Congratulations!

The Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF) is an annual conference for researchers in computer security, to examine current theories of security, the formal models that provide a context for those theories, and techniques for verifying security. It was created in 1988 as a workshop of the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Security and Privacy, in response to a 1986 essay by Don Good entitled “The Foundations of Computer Security—We Need Some.” The meeting became a “symposium” in 2007, along with a policy for open, increased attendance. Over the past two decades, many seminal papers and techniques have been presented first at CSF. For more details on the history of the symposium, visit CSF's home.

The program includes papers, panels, and a poster session. Topics of interest include access control, information flow, covert channels, cryptographic protocols, database security, language-based security, authorization and trust, verification techniques, integrity and availability models, and broad discussions concerning the role of formal methods in computer security and the nature of foundational research in this area.

Important Dates AoE (UTC-12h)

Spring cycle paper submission   May 13, 2022
Spring cycle author notification   July 15, 2022
Fall cycle paper submission   September 30, 2022
Fall cycle author notification   December 2, 2022
Winter cycle paper submission   February 3, 2023
Winter cycle author notification   April 7, 2023
Spring cycle paper submission (CSF 2024)   May 15, 2023
CSF Symposium   July 9 - 13, 2023

Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society's Technical Commitee on Security and Privacy.