Calls for Papers

Last Modified:3/24/25

Upcoming Conferences and Workshops

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DFDS 2025 1st Digital Forensics Doctoral Symposium, Held in conjunction with Digital Forensics Research Conference Europe (DFRWS EU 2025), Brno, Czech Republic, April 1, 2025. [posted here 7/22/24]
We are excited to announce the inaugural Digital Forensics Doctoral Symposium (DFDS), organised by DFRWS EU. This symposium provides a unique platform for doctoral students to share their (early-stage) research, engage in discussions with peers, and build connections within the digital forensics community. By co-locating DFDS with DFRWS EU, participants also gain the opportunity to attend the main conference, interact with leading experts in the field, and benefit from a rich exchange of ideas. We invite doctoral students to join us for this enriching experience.

For more information, please see https://www.dfrws.org/conferences/dfds2025/.

DFRWS EU 2025 Digital Forensics Research Conference Europe, Hybrid, Brno, Czech Republic, April 1-4, 2025. [posted here 7/22/24]
DFRWS EU is open to fresh insights that challenge the current boundaries of digital forensics. The submissions can cover a broad range of topics related to digital forensics. This year, we are organising the inaugural Digital Forensic Doctoral Symposium, which will be held on 1st April 2025. Furthermore, the Women in Forensic Computing Workshop (WIFC) is co-locating with DFRWS and will be held on Monday 31th March 2025. A separate WIFC registration is required.

For more information, please see https://dfrws.org/conferences/dfrws-eu-2025/.

SaTML 2025 3rd IEEE Conference on Secure and Trustworthy Machine Learning, Copenhagen, Denmark, April 9-11, 2025. [posted here 7/29/24]
IEEE SaTML expands upon the theoretical and practical understandings of vulnerabilities inherent to machine learning (ML), explore the robustness of learning algorithms and systems, and aid in developing a unified, coherent scientific community which aims 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/participate-cfp/.

HOST 2025 18th IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust, San Jose, CA, USA, May 5-8, 2025. [posted here 8/12/24]
IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST) is the premier symposium that facilitates the rapid growth of hardware-based security research and development. Since 2008, HOST has served as the globally recognized event for researchers and practitioners to advance knowledge and technologies related to hardware security and assurance.
- Computer-aided Design (CAD) for Hardware Security Verification
- Hardware Security Primitives
- Hardware Attack and Defense
- Architecture Security
- System security
- Emerging Security and Privacy Threats and Solutions

For more information, please see http://www.hostsymposium.org/call-for-paper.php.

SP 2025 46th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, San Francisco, CA, USA, May 12-15, 2025. [posted here 6/3/24]
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/.

For more information, please see https://www.sp2025.ieee-security.org/cfpapers.html.

IFIP TC-11 SEC 2025 40th IFIP TC-11 International Information Security and Privacy Conference, Maribor, Slovenia, May 21-23, 2025. [posted here 11/18/24]
The IFIP SEC conference is the flagship event of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Technical Committee 11 on Security and Privacy Protection in Information Processing Systems (TC-11, www.ifiptc11.org). We seek submissions from academia, industry, and government presenting novel research on all theoretical and practical aspects of security and privacy protection in ICT Systems. Practitioners and industry representatives are encouraged to submit papers. We welcome contributions within, but not limited to, the following areas:
- Access control and authentication
- Applied cryptography
- Audit and risk analysis
- Big data security and privacy
- Cloud security and privacy
- Critical infrastructure protection
- Cyber-physical systems security
- Data and applications security
- Digital forensics
- Human aspects of security and privacy
- Identity management
- Industry networks security
- Information security education
- Information security management
- Information technology misuse and the law
- IoT security
- Managing information security functions
- Mobile security
- Multilateral security
- Network & distributed systems security
- Pervasive systems security
- Privacy protection and Privacy-by-design
- Privacy-enhancing technologies
- Quantum computations and post-quantum cryptography
- Side-channel attacks
- Surveillance and counter-surveillance
- Trust management

For more information, please see http://sec2025.um.si/.

WNDSS 2025 International Workshop on Network and Distributed Systems Security, Co-located with the 40th International Information Security and Privacy Conference (IFIP SEC 2025), Maribor, Slovenia, May 23, 2025. [posted here 1/13/25]
The workshop is organized by IFIP Working Group 11.4 “Network & Distributed Systems Security”. The aim of the workshop is to provide a forum for discussion among researchers, practitioners, regulators, students, and any other interested parties. The scope of the workshop covers the security of computer networks and of distributed systems. Beyond technical papers and papers presenting the results of completed research, also work-in-progress papers, position papers, survey papers, and papers discussing non-technical aspects are of interest. The best student paper will receive an award.

For more information, please see https://ifiptc11.org/wg114-events/wg114-workshop/.

IWSPA 2025 11th ACM International Workshop on Security and Privacy Analytics, Co-located with ACM CODASPY 2025, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June 6, 2025. [posted here 1/13/25]
The goal of this workshop is to bring leaders in security and privacy fields together from across the globe. Increasingly, sophisticated techniques from machine learning, data mining, statistics and natural language processing are being applied to challenges in security and privacy fields. However, experts from these areas have no medium where they can meet and exchange ideas so that strong collaborations can emerge, and cross-fertilization of these areas can occur. Moreover, current courses and curricula in security do not sufficiently emphasize background in these areas and students in security and privacy are not emerging with deep knowledge of these topics. Hence, we propose a workshop that will address the research and development efforts in which analytical techniques from machine learning, data mining, natural language processing and statistics are applied to solve security and privacy challenges (“security analytics”). Submissions of papers related to methodology, design, techniques and new directions for security and privacy that make significant use of machine learning, data mining, statistics or natural language processing are welcome. Furthermore, submissions on educational topics and systems in the field of security analytics are also highly encouraged.

For more information, please see https://sites.google.com/view/iwspa-2025.

CSF 2025 38th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium, Santa Cruz, CA, USA, June 16-20, 2025. [posted here 10/1/24]
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.

For more information, please see https://csf2025.ieee-security.org.

WEIS 2025 24th Annual Workshop on the Economics of Information Security, Tokyo, Japan, June 23-25, 2025. [posted here 1/13/25]
The workshop accepts papers covering both theoretical and empirical studies of the interrelationship between information security (broadly construed, particularly to include privacy, cybercriminality and cyber-warfare) and economics (including financial incentives, behavioural economics, cyberinsurance). Market failures, market-induced technical failures, and cost analyses of investment in cybersecurity versus falling victim to cybercrime, have all been covered in past workshops. We encourage participation by submission of paper and attendance by economists, computer scientists, legal scholars, business researchers (from academia and elsewhere), and security and privacy researchers from academia and industry to submit research on relevant topics.

For more information, please see http://kmlabcw.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/weis/2025/index.html.

WTMC 2025 10th International Workshop on Traffic Measurements for Cybersecurity, Co-located with the 10th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE EuroS&P 2025), Venice, Italy, June 30, 2025. [posted here 1/20/25]
Current communication networks are increasingly becoming pervasive, complex, and ever-evolving due to factors like enormous growth in the number of network users, continuous appearance of network applications, increasing amount of data transferred, and diversity of user behavior. Understanding and measuring traffic in such networks is a challenging yet vital task for network management but recently also for cybersecurity purposes. Network traffic measurement and monitoring can, for example, enable the analysis of the spreading of malicious software and its capabilities or can help to understand the nature of various network threats, including those that exploit user's behavior and other user's sensitive information. On the other hand, network traffic investigation can also help to assess the effectiveness of the existing countermeasures or contribute to building new, better ones. Traffic measurements have been utilized in the area of economics of cybersecurity e.g., to assess ISP “badness” or to estimate the revenue of cybercriminals. Recent research has focused on measurements of fake news and the interplay between misinformation and user engagement in news postings using different online platforms. Additionally, recent studies have explored measurements of generative AI's role in cybersecurity, highlighting its dual potential to bypass security measures in cyberattacks and strengthen defense mechanisms against evolving threats. The WTMC workshop aims to bring together the research accomplishments provided by researchers from academia and the industry. The other goal is to show the latest research results in the field of cybersecurity and understand how traffic measurements can influence it. We encourage prospective authors to submit related distinguished research papers on the subject of both theoretical approaches and practical case reviews. This workshop presents some of the most relevant ongoing research in cybersecurity seen from the traffic measurements perspective.

For more information, please see https://wtmc.info/index.html.

IEEE EuroS&P 2025 10th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy, Venice, Italy, June 30 - July 4, 2025. [posted here 11/1/24]
Since 1980, the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy has been the premier forum for presenting developments in computer security and electronic privacy, and for bringing together researchers and practitioners in the field. Following this story of success, IEEE initiated the European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P), which is organized every year in a European city. The IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (Euro S&P) is the younger, more adventurous, and tastier sibling conference of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy ("Oakland" or "NorCal S&P") conference. It is a premier forum for computer security and privacy research, presenting the latest developments and bringing together researchers and practitioners. We solicit previously unpublished papers offering novel research contributions in security or privacy, as well as Systematization of Knowledge papers that systematize previous results. EuroS&P is interested in all aspects of applied computer security and privacy. We especially encourage papers that are far-reaching and risky, provided those papers show sufficient promise for creating interesting discussions and usefully questioning widely-held beliefs. Papers without a clear connection to security or privacy will be considered out of scope and may be rejected without full review.

For more information, please see https://eurosp2025.ieee-security.org.

PETS 2025 25th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium, Washington, DC and Online, July 14-19, 2025. [posted here 7/22/24]
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 25th PETS will be a hybrid event with a physical gathering held in Washington, DC, USA and a concurrent virtual event. 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 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 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/cfp25.php.

DFRWS-USA 2025 25th Annual Digital Forensics Research Conference, Chicago, Illinois, USA, July 22-25, 2025. [posted here 11/4/24]
DFRWS conferences feature thought provoking Keynote Speakers, hands-on workshops, cutting edge research papers, presentations, panel discussions, demonstrations and poster sessions accompanied by a full schedule of social events including a Welcome Reception, the DFRWS Digital Forensics Rodeo and an expedition. All presentations take place in-person but virtual registrations will be available for those who are not able to attend the conference in person but wish to participate in this historic event.

FULL RESEARCH PAPERS undergo double-blinded peer review, and the proceedings are published by Elsevier as a special issue of the Journal of Forensic Science International: Digital Investigation. We ask to submit articles according to the submission instructions.

Systematization of Knowledge (SoK) Papers: As this marks the 25th occurrence of the conference, a substantial body of knowledge has been published through this platform over the years. Therefore, starting from this year, we solicit Systematization of Knowledge (SoK) papers that systematize, contextualize and evaluate existing knowledge of digital forensics. A suitable SoK paper needs to provide unique insights, such as a new viewpoint, a comprehensive taxonomy, and new evidence in supporting or challenging long-held beliefs. A survey paper without such insights is not appropriate and may be rejected without full review. A SoK paper submission needs to have the prefix “SoK: ” in the title, and select the checkbox in the submission form. Accepted SoK papers will be presented at the conference and included in the proceedings.

For more information, please see https://dfrws.org/conferences/dfrws-usa-2025/.

ARES 2025 20th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, Ghent, Belgium, August 10-13, 2025. [posted here 12/23/24]
ARES highlights the various aspects of dependability – with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security. ARES aims at a full and detailed discussion of the research issues of dependability as an integrative concept that covers amongst others availability, safety, confidentiality, integrity, maintainability and security in the different fields of applications. ARES emphasizes the interplay between foundations and practical issues of dependability in emerging areas such as e-government, m-government, location-based applications, ubiquitous computing, autonomous computing, chances of grid computing etc. ARES is devoted to the critical examination and research challenges of the various aspects of Dependable Computing and the definition of a future road map. The ARES 2025 proceedings will be published in Springer Lecture Notes on Computer Science.

For more information, please see https://2025.ares-conference.eu/.

USENIX Security 2025 34th USENIX Security Symposium, Seattle, WA, USA, August 13-15, 2025. [posted here 6/3/24]
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. The 2025 edition of USENIX Security will implement a new approach to presenting accepted papers and fostering interactions at the conference. The USENIX Security '25 program co-chairs and the USENIX Security steering committee have prepared a public RFC about the plans for this new model and welcome thoughts from the USENIX Security community by April 22, 2024.

For more information, please see https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity25.