IFIP SEC 2026: Call for Papers

The 41st IFIP SEC Conference 2026 invites submissions from academia, industry, and government presenting novel research on all theoretical and practical aspects of security and privacy protection in ICT Systems.

Topics

We welcome contributions within, but not limited to, the following areas:

• Access control and authentication
• AI for cybersecurity
• 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
• Security and privacy in LLM’s
• Side-channel attacks
• Surveillance and counter-surveillance
• Trust management

Submission Guidelines

• Submitted papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted to another conference or journal for consideration.
• Accepted papers must be presented at the conference in-person and will be included in the conference proceedings published in the IFIP AICT series by Springer.
• All papers must be written in English.
• Submissions should be at most 14 pages long including references and appendices. Submissions should not be anonymised. PC members are not required to read the appendices, so the paper should be intelligible without them.
• Authors must follow the Springer LNCS formatting instructions. For camera-ready papers use Latex or Word format (author instructions and templates can be found here: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines).
• Each paper will receive at least three reviews.
• At least one author of each accepted paper must register by the author registration date indicated on the conference website and present the paper at the conference. For each accepted paper, at least one full registration is necessary.
• After the conference, extended versions of selected papers will be considered for publication in the Elsevier journal Computers & Security. Selected papers will undergo at least one further review round. Any papers considered for COSE will be expected to be further developed such that they contain at least 30% new material from what is published in the proceedings.

Resources

• Springer 'code of conduct' for authors
• Springer instructions for paper preparation
• Copyright assignment form (required on submission for review)
• Paper Submission (via Easychair)

Important Dates (all AoE)

• Submission due: December 19, 2025
• Notification of acceptance: February 13, 2026
• Submission of camera-ready papers (including registration and payment): March 13, 2026
• TC11 Meeting: June 08, 2026
• Conference: June 09 - 11, 2026

Awards

Computers & Security Best Paper Award

• Sponsored by Computers & Security, published by Elsevier.
• The award will carry a prize to the value of $1,000 (USD) and an extended version of the paper will be invited for publication in the journal (the extended version must contain at least 30% new material from what is published in the proceedings).

Yves Deswarte Best Student Paper Award

• The paper must be original and carried out principally by the student presenting the paper, and the student must be the lead author.
• A student who is to be considered for the best paper award must be a full time (as determined by the student’s institution) registered undergraduate, graduate, or doctoral student at the time of submission of the paper.
• The award will carry a prize to the value of €1,000 (EUR).