Calls for Papers

Last Modified:7/28/25

Upcoming Conferences and Workshops

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CSR 2025 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience, Chania, Crete, Greece, August 4-6, 2025. [posted here 3/3/25]
The IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience (IEEE CSR) is an annual event sponsored by the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) Society. The technological and industrial revolution brought by complex cyber-physical systems (CPS) comes with new threats and cyber-attacks that exploit their inherent complexity and heterogeneity. These attacks have a significant negative impact on the operation of various services in critical sectors, like energy, transport, and communications, which provide the vital functions that our societies depend upon. The conference focuses on theoretical and practical aspects of the security, privacy, trust, and resilience of networks, systems, and services as well as novel ways for dealing with vulnerabilities and mitigation of sophisticated cyber-attacks.

For more information, please see https://www.ieee-csr.org/.

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/.

EDId 2025 2nd International Workshop on Emerging Digital Identities, Co-located with the 20th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2025), Ghent, Belgium, August 11-14, 2025. [posted here 2/10/25]
The identity environment has evolved into a complex ecosystem demanding seamless interoperability, stronger security measures, and user-centric experiences in an increasingly interconnected digital world. Addressing these difficulties necessitates collaboration among scholars and practitioners from diverse disciplines, establishing an interdisciplinary approach critical for shaping the future of identity management. EDId navigates various security, privacy, and legal compliance issues, addressing technical issues like security and interoperability and legal and regulatory considerations like data protection and privacy.

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

ENS 2025 8th International Workshop on Emerging Network Security, Co-located with the 20th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2025), Ghent, Belgium, August 11-14, 2025. [posted here 4/21/25]
With the great success and development of 5G & beyond systems and other emerging concepts (e.g. 6G) a continued effort toward rich ubiquitous communication infrastructure, promising wide range of high-quality services is desired. It is envisioned that communication in emerging networks will offer significantly greater data bandwidth and almost infinite capability of networking resulting in unfaltering user experiences for, among others: virtual/augmented reality, massive content streaming, telepresence, user-centric computing, crowded area services, smart personal networks, Internet of Things (IoT), smart buildings and smart cities.

The communication in 5G networks and beyond is currently in the center of attention of industry, academia, and government worldwide. Emerging network concepts drive many new requirements for different network capabilities. As future networks aim at utilizing many promising network technologies, such as Software Defined Networking (SDN), Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), Information Centric Network (ICN), Network Slicing or Cloud Computing and supporting a huge number of connected devices integrating above mentioned advanced technologies and innovating new techniques will surely bring tremendous challenges for security, privacy and trust. Therefore, secure network architectures, mechanisms, and protocols are required as the basis for emerging networks to address these issues and follow security-by-design approach. Finally, since in current and future networks even more user data and network traffic will be transmitted, big data security solutions should be considered in order to address the magnitude of the data volume and ensure data security and privacy.

From this perspective, the ENS 2025 workshop aims at collecting the most relevant ongoing research efforts in emerging network security field. It also serves as a forum for 5G & beyond projects in order to disseminate their security-related results and boost cooperation, also foster development of the 5G and beyond Security Community made of 5G security experts and practitioners who pro-actively discuss and share information to collectively progress and align on the field. Last but not least it also aims to bridge 5G & Beyond community with other communities (e.g. AI) that are key to support full attainment of 5G & Beyond but also 6G promises and so for those technologies to release their full potential

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

CUING 2025 9th International Workshop on Cyber Use of Information Hiding, Co-located with the 20th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2025), Ghent, Belgium, August 11-14, 2025. [posted here 4/21/25]
The increasing number of Internet users, availability of storage and network resources, and proliferation of as-a-Service frameworks, leads to a new-wave of offensive campaigns targeting the virtual world. With the diffusion of improved defensive methods, attackers now utilize more and more sophisticated techniques to perform their malicious activities. In recent years, information hiding has emerged as one of the most sophisticated and effective mechanisms for launching attacks. Threat actors now regularly use information hiding to elude countermeasures and prevent reversing the attack chain. More recently, hiding techniques have been deployed to create covert channels, i.e., parasitic communications paths nested in network traffic and digital objects, mainly to cloak command & control communications. Unfortunately, detection and mitigation of threats taking advantage of information hiding are hard tasks that pose many new challenges for digital forensics analysts, academics, law enforcement agencies, and security professionals.

The aim of the International Workshop on Cyber Use of Information Hiding (CUIng) is to bring together researchers, practitioners, law enforcement representatives, and security professionals in the area of analysis of information hiding techniques when used in cyberspace. Techniques, mechanisms, and ideas that fall in the scope of the workshop are not limited to classic digital steganography applications or the creation and mitigation of covert communications. Therefore, CUIng also welcomes works that pertain to camouflaging/masking/hiding various types of data, e.g., identities, behaviors of processes, and communication flows. To present a more complete picture of the novel research on hiding methods and their utilization by the attackers, submissions dealing with impersonation or mimicking are encouraged as well, especially to address information hiding in a complete manner, for instance, to discuss ideas for fighting misuse of privacy-enhancing technologies.

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

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.

PST 2025 22nd Annual International Conference on Privacy, Security & Trust, Fredericton, Canada, August 26-28, 2025. [posted here 2/17/25]
The Annual International Conference on Privacy, Security & Trust (PST) provides a premier forum for sharing advances in cybersecurity research and security applications. PST2025 will be held in person in Fredericton, Canada, and will offer three days of keynotes, technical presentations, posters, special sessions, and an Industrial day with a vendor exhibition.

For more information, please see http://pstnet.ca.

SICSI 2025 1st International Workshop on Secure Industrial Control Systems and Industrial-IoT, Co-located with IEEE CNS 2025, Avignon, France, September 8-11. [posted here 6/16/25]
Critical Infrastructure (CI) stands out as prime targets for global attackers due to their critical role as the essential part of any nation's infrastructure. The workshop on "Secure Industrial Control Systems and Industrial-IoT (SICSI)" invites contributions in the realm of enhancing security and resilience in critical infrastructure, industrial control systems (ICS), supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems and operational technology (OT). We welcome papers exploring innovative approaches for bolstering the security and resiliency of CI, ICS, SCADA and OT environments. Topics of interest include the application of artificial intelligence techniques and machine learning methods to fortify CI, ICS, SCADA and OT defenses against emerging threats, as well as the development of autonomous, self-managing security systems tailored to the unique challenges of industrial environments. We also encourage submissions that delve into the security and resilience of interconnected systems, spanning from traditional ICS and SCADA to operational technology and industrial internet of things (IIoT) ecosystems. Additionally, we seek contributions addressing autonomic security management approaches specifically designed for ICS/SCADA infrastructures. Participants are encouraged to submit their work on novel approaches to security tailored specifically for the unique challenges posed by CI, ICS, SCADA and OT infrastructures. Through this workshop, we aim to foster discussions and exchange of ideas among researchers and practitioners aiming to advance the state-of-the-art in securing critical industrial systems.

For more information, please see https://aliteke.github.io/sicsi2025/.

MLCS 2025 7th Workshop on Machine Learning for Cybersecurity, Co-located with the ECML PKDD 2025 conference, Porto, Portugal, September 15, 2025. [posted here 6/2/25]
The workshop shall provide a forum for discussing novel trends and achievements in machine learning and their role in the development of secure systems. The workshop shall contribute to identifying new application areas as well as open and future research problems related to the application of machine learning in the cybersecurity field. All topics related to the contribution of machine learning approaches to the security of organisations’ systems and data are welcome.

For more information, please see http://mlcs.lasige.di.fc.ul.pt/.

ESORICS 2025 30th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, Toulouse, France, September 22-26, 2025. [posted here 12/30/24]
Computer security is concerned with the protection of information in environments where there is a possibility of intrusion or malicious action. The aim of ESORICS is to further the progress of research in computer security by fostering a European community that bridges academia and industry in this realm. Sequentially hosted across various European nations, the symposium has solidified its position as one of Europe's most prominent conferences on computer security. Currently, the symposium delves into research and developmental avenues encompassing AI, machine learning, technologies that enhance privacy, network safeguards, software and hardware protection in practical scenarios.

For more information, please see https://www.esorics2025.org/.

DPM 2025 20th Workshop on Data Privacy Management, Co-located with ESORICS 2025, Toulouse, France, September 25, 2025. [posted here 6/9/25]
DPM is an annual international workshop covering research in data privacy management. Organizations are increasingly concerned about the privacy of information that they manage (as witnessed, for example, by lawsuits filed against organizations for violating the privacy of customer's data). Thus, the management of privacy-sensitive information is very critical and important for every organization. This poses several challenging problems, such as how to translate the high-level business goals into system-level privacy policies, administration of privacy-sensitive data, privacy preserving data integration and engineering, privacy preserving access control mechanisms, information-oriented security, and query execution on privacy-sensitive data for partial answers. Starting from these observations, the aim of DPM is to discuss and exchange ideas related to data privacy management. We invite papers from researchers and practitioners working in privacy, security, trustworthy data systems and related areas to submit their original papers in this workshop. Submissions by PhD students as well as controversial ideas are encouraged. Case studies (successful or not) are also encouraged.

For more information, please see https://deic.uab.cat/dpm/dpm2025/.

SECAI 2025 Workshop on Security and Artificial Intelligence, Co-located with ESORICS 2025, Toulouse, France, September 25-26, 2025. [posted here 6/9/25]
Join us at SECAI 2025 workshop, where we will delve into the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on cybersecurity. AI is transforming various fields, including cybersecurity, where it has been used with great success to enhance the security of networks, systems, and devices. However, the benefits of AI come with new concerns such as safety and ethics, privacy and data protection, data quality, and adversarial attacks that exploit vulnerabilities in AI systems. Moreover, the use of AI can lead to more complex attacks, triggering an AI arms race between attackers and defenders. To address these challenges and effectively utilize AI for cybersecurity, innovative ideas and effective approaches need to be explored. The SECAI 2025 workshop provides a unique forum for researchers from academia and industry to exchange and discuss new scientific contributions, current accomplishments, and open challenges in this research area.

For more information, please see https://sites.google.com/view/secai2025/home.

CBT 2025 9th International Workshop on Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technology, Co-located with ESORICS 2025, Toulouse, France, September 25, 2025. [posted here 6/16/25]
Since the emergence of Bitcoin in 2009, a wide array of cryptocurrencies and blockchain-based systems have been introduced, achieving varying degrees of adoption and success. While some of these projects are incremental variations of Bitcoin, others present novel consensus mechanisms, governance models, privacy-enhancing technologies, or explore use cases beyond digital currencies such as decentralized finance (DeFi), non-fungible tokens (NFTs), decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), and scalable Layer 2 solutions. Despite these innovations, many proposed systems are released as rapid prototypes or proof-of-concept implementations, often lacking rigorous scientific evaluation. This workshop aims to serve as a dedicated forum for researchers to critically assess existing systems, explore emerging paradigms such as zero-knowledge proofs, cross-chain interoperability, and sustainable consensus, and propose robust frameworks that contribute to a sound scientific foundation for the ongoing development of blockchain technologies and next-generation decentralized systems.

For more information, please see http://cbtworkshop.org/.

STM 2025 21st International Workshop on Security and Trust Management, Co-located with ESORICS 2025, Toulouse, France, September 25-26, 2025. [posted here 6/30/25]
STM (Security and Trust Management) is a working group of ERCIM (European Research Consortium in Informatics and Mathematics). STM 2025 is the twenty-first workshop in this series and will be held in conjunction with the 30th European Symposium On Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2025). The workshop seeks submissions from academia, industry, and government presenting novel research on all theoretical and practical aspects of security and trust in ICTs.

For more information, please see https://www.nics.uma.es/stm2025/index.html.

ACM CCS 2025 32nd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Taipei, Taiwan, October 13-17, 2025. [posted here 11/18/24]
The 32nd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) seeks submissions presenting novel contributions related to all real-world aspects of computer security and privacy. Theoretical papers must make a convincing case for the relevance of their results to practice. 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 computer-security researcher. In particular, authors should bear in mind that anyone on the program committee may be asked to review any paper. Authors of each accepted paper must ensure that at least one author registers for the conference, and that their paper is presented in-person at the conference if at all possible. Please note that ACM CCS will strictly follow and enforce the policies and rules about Conflicts of Interest and Peer-Review Integrity.

For more information, please see https://www.sigsac.org/ccs/CCS2025/call-for-papers/.

WPES 2025 24th Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society, Held in conjunction with ACM CCS 2025, Taipei, Taiwan, October 13, 2025. [posted here 7/14/25]
The need for privacy-aware policies, regulations, and techniques has been widely recognized. This workshop discusses the problems of privacy in the global interconnected societies and possible solutions. The 2025 Workshop, held in conjunction with the ACM CCS conference, is the 24th in a yearly forum for papers on all the different aspects of privacy in today's electronic society. The workshop seeks submissions from academia, industry, and government presenting novel research on all theoretical and practical aspects of electronic privacy, as well as experimental studies of fielded systems. We encourage submissions from other communities such as law and business that present these communities' perspectives on technological issues.

For more information, please see http://jianying.space/WPES2025/.

MarCaS 2025 3rd LCN Special Track on Maritime Communication and Security, Held in conjunction with the 50th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (IEEE LCN 2025), Sydney, Australia, October 14-16, 2025. [posted here 3/17/25]
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 workshop 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/.

ASHES 2025 9th Workshop on Attacks and Solutions in Hardware Security, Held in conjunction with ACM CCS 2025, Taipei, Taiwan, October 17, 2025. [posted here 6/23/25]
ASHES deals with all aspects of hardware security, including both theory and practice, and welcomes any contributions in this area. Besides traditional topics, it also invites novel methods and emerging applications: This includes new attack vectors, novel designs and materials, lightweight security primitives, nanotechnology, and PUFs, as well as the internet of things, automotive security, smart homes, or pervasive and wearable computing. The workshop will include several technical sessions and two invited keynotes by some leading colleagues in hardware security. All accepted ASHES papers will be published the ASHES Workshop Proceedings in the ACM Dlgital library. To account for the special nature of hardware security as a rapidly developing discipline, ASHES hosts four different categories of papers: Classical full papers; short papers; wild and crazy (WaC) papers (whose purpose is rapid dissemination of promising, potentially game-changing novel ideas); and systematization of knowledge (SoK) papers (which overview, structure, and categorize a certain subarea).

For more information, please see https://ashesworkshop.online/.

QSec 2025 ACM QSec: Quantum Security and Privacy Workshop, Held in conjunction with ACM CCS 2025, Taipei, Taiwan, October 17, 2025. [posted here 7/7/25]
The inaugural Quantum Security and Privacy (QSec) Workshop invites contributions at the intersection of quantum technologies and security and privacy, with a particular focus on securing end-to-end systems and safeguarding data and code in the quantum computing era. The workshop will explore both the evolving landscape of quantum threats (posed by adversaries with quantum computing or sensing capabilities) and the expanding landscape of threats to quantum technologies (posed by classical or quantum adversaries). Participants will also present countermeasures and innovative solutions—ranging from hybrid cryptographic schemes to protocols protecting fragile near-term quantum systems.

For more information, please see https://acm-qsec.com/.

AICCSA 2025 22nd ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, Doha, Qatar, October 19-22, 2025. [posted here 6/2/25]
The ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA) is the premier conference covering all contemporary areas in computer systems and applications. It implements an international forum for academics, industry researchers, developers, and practitioners to report and share groundbreaking contributions in various IT fields that range from distributed computing to data science, security and machine learning.

For more information, please see https://conferences.sigappfr.org/aiccsa2025/.

APF 2025 Annual Privacy Forum, Frankfurt a.M., Germany, October 22-23, 2025. [posted here 5/26/25]
The EU legal framework on personal data protection is key in an effort to better control the processing of personal data while ensuring an adequate level of protection. Even the best legislative efforts cannot keep up to speed with the pace of innovative technology and business models that challenge the way personal data is processed and privacy is protected across the EU and beyond; therefore, examining what is at stake and where threats thereto originate from becomes of paramount importance. Against this background, RSAC™ Conference, ENISA, DG Connect, Goethe-University Frankfurt, and Karlstad University jointly organize the Annual Privacy Forum (APF) 2025 in Frankfurt a.M., Germany. In APF 2025, we invite papers presenting original work on the themes of data protection and privacy and their repercussions on technology, business, government, law, society, policy and law enforcement. An inter-disciplinary approach is high in demand to contribute to bridging the gap between research, business models and policy, much like proposing new models and interpretations. APF 2025 seeks original contributions from researchers and academia, policy makers and implementers, data protection authorities, industry, consultants, NGOs, as well as civil society. Full research papers need to be genuine in content and should not overlap with work published elsewhere. Opinion papers are expected to reflect the views of the author(s). Submissions can be up to 8000 words, excluding bibliography and well-marked appendices.

For more information, please see https://privacyforum.eu/.

ICICS 2025 27th International Conference on Information and Communications Security, Nanjing, China, October 29-31, 2025. [posted here 3/3/25]
The ICICS conference started in 1997 and aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry to discuss and exchange their experiences, lessons learned, and insights related to information and communications security. The conference seeks submissions presenting novel contributions related to information and communication security. Springer sponsors ICICS 2025 with 1000 EUR for a Best Paper Award and a Best Student Paper Award.

For more information, please see https://www.icics2025.org/index.html.

CANS 2025 24th International Conference on Cryptology and Network Security, Osaka, Japan, November 17-20, 2025. [posted here 4/14/25]
The International Conference on Cryptology and Network Security (CANS) is a premier forum for presenting research in the field of cryptology and network security. The conference seeks academic, industry, and government submissions on all theoretical and practical aspects of cryptology and network security, and its extended domains in modern computing systems.

For more information, please see https://cy2sec.comm.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp/miyaji-lab/event/cans2025/index.html.

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.