IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP) 2026: Call for Papers

The 47th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP 2026) will be held from May 18-21, 2026, at the Hilton San Francisco Union Square, San Francisco, CA.

Overview

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.

Submission Topics

We solicit previously unpublished papers offering novel research contributions in any aspect of security or privacy.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
• Human-centered security and privacy
• Intrusion detection and prevention
• Malware and unwanted software
• Network security and measurement
• ML - Methods for confidentiality and privacy of data in ML systems
• ML - Methods for integrity and availability of ML systems
• ML - Novel attacks on ML systems
• ML - Verifying security and privacy properties of ML algorithms
• 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 for at-risk populations
• Software supply chain security
• Systems security
• User studies for security and privacy
• Web security and privacy
• 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 (SoK) Papers

We solicit SoK papers that evaluate, systematize, and contextualize existing knowledge. Suitable papers provide an important new viewpoint on an established research area, support or challenge long-held beliefs with compelling evidence, or present a convincing, comprehensive new taxonomy. Survey papers without such insights are not appropriate.

Submissions should be prefixed with “SoK:” in the title and have a checkbox selected on the submission form.

Submission Deadlines & Decisions

First deadline:

• Abstract registration deadline: May 29, 2025 (mandatory)
• Paper submission deadline: June 5, 2025
• Early-reject notification: July 21, 2025
• Rebuttal period (interactive): August 18 - August 29, 2025
• Rebuttal text due: August 25, 2025
• Acceptance notification: September 9, 2025
• Camera-ready deadline: October 17, 2025

Second deadline:

• Abstract registration deadline: November 6, 2025 (mandatory)
• Paper submission deadline: November 13, 2025
• Early-reject notification: January 19, 2026
• Rebuttal period (interactive): February 16 - February 27, 2026
• Rebuttal text due: February 23, 2026
• Acceptance notification: March 19, 2026
• Camera-ready deadline: April 17, 2026

Publication and Presentation

• Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings and presented at the conference.
• Acceptance: Papers in this category will be accepted for publication and presentation. A camera-ready copy must be submitted within one month of acceptance. Papers will be published open access in the Computer Society’s Digital Library.
• Reject: Rejected papers must wait for one year from the original submission date to resubmit to IEEE S&P.
• Public Meta-Reviews: Accepted papers will be published with a meta-review (< 500 words) and authors will have the option to write a response (< 500 words).
• Symposium Event: Each accepted paper will have a short talk presentation (5-7 minutes) and a poster presentation. Both are required.

Instructions for Paper Submission

• Format: Papers must be formatted for US letter size paper using the IEEE “compsoc” conference proceedings template. LaTeX submissions must use IEEEtran.cls version 1.8b with options “conference,compsoc.”.
• Page Limit: Submitted papers may include up to 13 pages of text and up to 5 pages for references and appendices, totaling no more than 18 pages. All text and figures past page 13 must be clearly marked as part of the appendix.
• Anonymity: Papers must be submitted in a form suitable for anonymous review: no author names or affiliations. Avoid revealing authors' identity in the text, references, and acknowledgments.
• Conflicts of Interest: Authors must identify any conflicts of interest with PC members.
• ORCID: All authors are required to submit an ORCID number at the time of paper submission. Papers without ORCID numbers for all authors will be desk-rejected.
• Conflicts: Authors are not allowed to directly contact PC members to discuss their submission.

Submission Server

Submissions must be in Portable Document Format (.pdf).

• First deadline: https://cycle1.sp2026.ieee-security.org/

Contact

• General Chair: Alina Oprea (Northeastern University)
• Program Chairs: Cristina Nita-Rotaru (Northeastern University), Nicolas Papernot (University of Toronto and Vector Institute and Google DeepMind)