CALL FOR PAPERS
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                          ICISS-2026
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     22nd International Conference on Information Systems Security
           Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai, India
                    December 16-20, 2026


The 22nd ICISS will be held at the Chennai Mathematical Institute,
Chennai between December 16 and 20, 2026. ICISS provides a forum for
researchers and industry practitioners to present their previously
unpublished research work.


Important Dates:
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Submission deadline: July 10, 2026
Notification of acceptance: September 10, 2026
Camera-ready submission deadline: September 30, 2026


TPC Co-Chairs:
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Atul Prakash, University of Michigan, USA
SP Suresh, Chennai Mathematical Institute, India 


A broad but non-exhaustive list of areas of interest is as below:

Systems Security
 OS, VM, containers, cloud
 Network: SDN, NFV, SD-WAN
 IoT, RFID, SCADA systems
 IDS, IPS,  Honeypot, Botnet

Access control
 Authentication, Authorization
 PKI & Trust management
 Zero Trust

Application Security
 Vulnerabilities, Malware
 Ransomware, APTs, MITRE
 Information flow control
 Threat Modelling, Attack graphs

Security in AI/ML
 Adversarial learning/inputs
 Prompt injection, RLHF strategies
 Model stealing, Model poisoning

Formal Methods for Security
 Verification of Security Protocols
 FM for AI/ML Models & Apps

Hardware Security
 Remote attestation, PUFs
 Trojans, Backdoors, FPGA
 TEE, TRNG, SGX

Privacy
 PETs, anonymization tech
 De-identification attacks
 Surveillance & Censorship
 Inference, correlation attacks

Blockchain
 Cryptocurrency, stablecoins
 Interoperability, scalability
 Smart contracts, concurrency
 DIDs, NFTs, CBDCs, AML

Emerging Tech/Standards
 ChatGPT, LaMDA, Dall-E 2, etc
 Security-by-design, SBOM
 STIX/TAXII

Use Cases
 e-voting, e-gov, smart cities
 Healthcare, UPI payments


Submissions must be written in English and must not exceed 20 pages in
length using LNCS format. Submissions must be in PDF format. A
double-blinded peer review process will be followed. Submission link
will be available in the coming weeks.

At the time of submission, you will have to: 1) declare potential
conflict-of-interests with TPC members, 2) declare IRB status along
with responsible disclosures while dealing with vulnerabilities and
user privacy 3) declare use of Gen-AI in the work submitted for
review.

The proceedings will appear in the Springer LNCS series.

ICISS has a best paper award.  

ICISS also accepts submissions under Industry/Demo track demonstrating
implementations/PoC in the area of systems security, and a separate
track for PhD students presenting their early/WiP through lightning
talks & poster. ICISS has generous funds supporting students to attend
pre-conference school (tutorials, etc.) and the main conference.


Website: https://iciss.in

CFP version 1 (March 10, 2026)