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Special Issues of Journals and Handbooks

IEEE Transactions on Privacy. (Submission Due: On-going) [posted here 7/21/25]
Editor-in-Chief: Christopher W. Clifton

IEEE Transactions on Privacy (TP) provides a multidisciplinary forum for theoretical, methodological, engineering, and applications aspects of privacy and data protection. Privacy, in this context, is defined as the freedom from unauthorized intrusion in its broadest sense, arising from any activity in information collection, information processing, information dissemination, or invasion. Contributions to solving privacy problems in various application domains such as healthcare are also accepted. Purely theoretical papers with no potential application or purely developmental work without any methodological contribution or generalizability would not be in scope. To submit an article, please use the IEEE Author Portal. Detailed information on submitting your paper to an IEEE Computer Society publication can be found on the Author Guidelines page. 

For more information, please see https://www.computer.org/csdl/journals/pr.

Conference and Workshop Call-for-papers

SCIEN 2027 7th International Workshop on Secure Cryptographic Implementations and Engineering, Held in conjunction with Inscrypt 2026, Hong Kong SAR, China, November 8, 2026. (Submission Due 1 August 2026) [posted here 6/29/26]
The aim of the SCIEN workshop is to provide an international forum for research and development on security issues in the implementation and deployment of cryptographic solutions. The workshop focuses on the following aspects: (1) vulnerabilities and defenses in the implementation of cryptographic algorithms; (2) vulnerabilities and defenses in the implementation of cryptographic protocols; (3) defective cryptographic algorithms and protocols deployed in the wild; (4) weak cryptographic keys and random numbers in cryptographic implementations; (5) runtime cryptographic key attacks and protections; (6) certificates and key management; (7) misuse or abuse of cryptographic services; and (8) other topics related to secure cryptographic implementations. SCIEN 2026 seeks submissions of original research papers. We are especially interested in papers with novel ideas, position papers, pilot studies, and initial findings. A workshop best paper award may be selected from the accepted papers.

For more information, please see https://scien-conf.github.io/.

HealthSec 2026 3rd Workshop on Cybersecurity in Healthcare, Co-located with the IEEE Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (IEEE ACSAC 2026), Los Angeles, CA, USA, December 8 2026. (Submission Due 7 August 2026) [posted here 5/10/26]
In its most basic form, healthcare is gathering data, interpreting data into information, and transforming information into current human knowledge that can be acted upon, with each of these stages open to unintended errors and/or malicious subversion. These stages do not occur within a vacuum but rather within our existing infrastructures and social system with all their current limitations, systemic bias, and exploitable vulnerabilities. While a similar characterization can be made about security in other applied domains, healthcare is undergoing a dramatic transformation, arguably a technological revolution, presenting ground-breaking opportunities for improvement along with corresponding challenges in security. Our desire is to bring together diverse researchers from academia, government, and the healthcare industry to report on the latest research efforts. As this is the third workshop, we want to continue momentum toward encouraging, jumpstarting, and growing excellent interdisciplinary contributions at the forefront of cybersecurity in healthcare research. Papers with demonstrated results will be given priority.

For more information, please see https://publish.illinois.edu/healthsec2026/.

ACM PQQS 2026 1st ACM Conference on Post-Quantum and Quantum-based Security, San Jose, CA, USA, November 2 - 4, 2026. (Submission Due 10 August 2026) [posted here 5/10/26]
ACM SIGSAC announces the inaugural ACM Conference on Post-Quantum and Quantum-based Security (PQQS). PQQS is a new annual venue focused on research at the intersection of security, post-quantum cryptography, and quantum computing systems and infrastructures. The ACM Conference on Post-Quantum and Quantum-based Security (PQQS) is expected to be a premier forum dedicated to research at the intersection of cybersecurity and quantum technologies. The inaugural edition of PQQS establishes a new international forum dedicated to the theory and practice of information security in the emerging quantum era. The conference brings together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government to advance both foundational and applied aspects of classical (including post-quantum and information-theoretic) and quantum approaches to information security, and to explore novel applications of quantum information. It aims to provide a unified venue for rigorous, forward-looking research addressing the challenges of securing information in a quantum-enabled world. The conference spans quantum-enabled security systems, quantum-safe security approaches (including post-quantum and information-theoretic methods), and security of quantum systems bringing together perspectives from theory, systems, deployment, and standardization.

For more information, please see https://acm-pqqs.github.io/pqqs2026/.

USENIX Security 2027 36th USENIX Security Symposium, Denver, CO, USA, August 11 - 13, 2027. (Submission Due 18 August 2026 and 19 January 2027) [posted here 5/25/26]
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.

Interested in serving on the program committee? The program co-chairs invite self-nominations from both senior and junior members from the community via the Reviewer Management System (RMS) by Thursday, May 28, 2026.

For more information, please see https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity27.

NDSS 2027 Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, Seoul, Republic of Korea, March 22 - 26, 2027. (Submission Due 6 May 2026 and 19 August 2026) [posted here 5/25/26]
The Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium is a top venue that fosters information exchange among researchers and practitioners of network and distributed system security. The target audience includes everyone interested in practical aspects of network and distributed system security, with a focus on system design and implementation. A major goal is to encourage and enable the Internet community to apply, deploy, and advance the state of practical security technologies. This call solicits technical papers. 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 security researcher. All submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee and accepted submissions will be published by the Internet Society in the Proceedings of NDSS Symposium 2027. The Proceedings will be made freely accessible from the Internet Society web pages. Furthermore, permission to freely reproduce all or parts of papers for noncommercial purposes is granted provided that copies bear the Internet Society notice included on the first page of the paper. The authors are thus free to post the camera-ready versions of their papers on their personal pages and within their institutional repositories. Reproduction for commercial purposes is strictly prohibited and requires prior consent.

For more information, please see https://www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss2027/submissions/call-for-papers/.

PETS 2027 27th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium, Delft, The Netherlands, July 19 - 24, 2027. (Submission Due 31 May 2026, 31 August 2026, 30 November 2026 and 28 February 2027) [posted here 5/25/26]
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 27th PETS is expected to be an event with a physical gathering held in somewhere in Europe (TBA). 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 strongly 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 strictly 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/cfp27.php.

SSR 2026 11th Security Standardisation Research Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, December 13 - 15, 2026. (Submission Due 15 September 2026) [posted here 7/13/26]
Security Standardisation Research Conference (SSR) is a major international peer-reviewed research conference, focusing on the intersection of cybersecurity and standards and aiming to bridge the gap between academic research and actual standardization bodies, including ISO, NIST, and IETF. SSR will accept three types of papers: (1) regular research papers, (2) Systematization of Knowledge (SoK) papers, and (3) Vision papers.

For more information, please see https://ssresearch26.umbc.edu/call-for-papers/.

IFIP 11/9 DF 2027 23rd Annual IFIP WG 11.9 International Conference on Digital Forensics, New Delhi, India, January 7 - 8, 2027. (Submission Due 10 October 2026) [posted here 7/13/26]
The IFIP Working Group 11.9 on Digital Forensics (www.ifip119.org) is an active international community of scientists, engineers and practitioners dedicated to advancing the state of the art of research and practice in digital forensics. The Twenty-Third Annual IFIP WG 11.9 International Conference on Digital Forensics will provide a forum for presenting original, unpublished research results and innovative ideas related to the extraction, analysis and preservation of all forms of electronic evidence. Papers and panel proposals are solicited. All submissions will be refereed by a program committee comprising members of the Working Group. Papers and panel submissions will be selected based on their technical merit and relevance to IFIP WG 11.9. The conference will be limited to approximately 100 participants to facilitate interactions between researchers and intense discussions of critical research issues. Keynote presentations, revised papers and details of panel discussions will be published as an edited volume Ð the twenty-third volume in the well-known Research Advances in Digital Forensics book series (Springer, Cham, Switzerland) during the summer of 2027. Best paper and best student paper awards will be announced at the conference. Additionally, extended versions of outstanding papers presented at the conference will be published in Computers & Security Journal (Elsevier, Amsterdam, Netherlands).

For more information, please see http://www.ifip119.org/.

SP 2027 48th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, Montreal, Canada, TBA, 2027. (Submission Due 4 June 2026 and 10 November 2026) [posted here 5/11/26]
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 ÒSoK:Ó 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/.

Symposium Event (Important Changes): The number of papers accepted to IEEE S&P continues to grow substantially each year. Due to conference venue limitations and costs, each accepted paper will have: (a) a short talk presentation (e.g., 5-7 minutes, length determined based on the number of accepted papers) and (b) a poster presentation immediately following the talk session containing the paper. All accepted papers are required to present both a short talk and a poster.

For more information, please see https://sp2027.ieee-security.org/cfpapers.html.

PETS 2027 27th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium, Delft, The Netherlands, July 19 - 24, 2027. (Submission Due 31 May 2026, 31 August 2026, 30 November 2026 and 28 February 2027) [posted here 5/25/26]
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 27th PETS is expected to be an event with a physical gathering held in somewhere in Europe (TBA). 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 strongly 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 strictly 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/cfp27.php.

USENIX Security 2027 36th USENIX Security Symposium, Denver, CO, USA, August 11 Ð 13, 2027. (Submission Due 18 August 2026 and 19 January 2027) [posted here 5/25/26]
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.

Interested in serving on the program committee? The program co-chairs invite self-nominations from both senior and junior members from the community via the Reviewer Management System (RMS) by Thursday, May 28, 2026.

For more information, please see https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity27.

PETS 2027 27th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium, Delft, The Netherlands, July 19 - 24, 2027. (Submission Due 31 May 2026, 31 August 2026, 30 November 2026 and 28 February 2027) [posted here 5/25/26]
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 27th PETS is expected to be an event with a physical gathering held in somewhere in Europe (TBA). 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 strongly 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 strictly 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/cfp27.php.

Archival Journals Regularly Specializing in Security and Privacy

Journal of Privacy Technology (JOPT),   Editor-in-Chief:  Latanya Sweeney
This online-only Journal, started in 2004 and  operated by Carnegie Mellon University, is a forum for the publication of original current research in privacy technology. It encourages the submission of any material dealing primarily with the technological aspects of privacy or with the privacy aspects of technology, which may include analysis of the interaction between policy and technology or the technological implications of legal decisions.  More information can be found at http://www.jopt.org/.

IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine,   Editor-in-Chief: Shari Lawrence Pfleeger
IEEE Security & Privacy provides a unique combination of research articles, case studies, tutorials, and regular departments covering diverse aspects of information assurance such as legal and ethical issues, privacy concerns, tools to help secure information, analysis of vulnerabilities and attacks, trends and new developments, pedagogical and curricular issues in educating the next generation of security professionals, secure operating systems and applications, security issues in wireless networks, design and test strategies for secure and survivable systems, and cryptology.  More information can be found at http://www.computer.org/portal/web/computingnow/securityandprivacy.

ACM Transactions on Information and System Security,   Editor-in-Chief: Gene Tsudik
ACM invites submissions for its Transactions on Information and System Security, inaugurated in November 1998. TISSEC publishes original archival-quality research papers and technical notes in all areas of information and system security including technologies, systems, applications, and policies. Papers should have practical relevance to the construction, evaluation, application, or operation of secure systems. Theoretical papers will be accepted only if there is convincing argument for the practical significance of the results. Theory must be justified by convincing examples illustrating its application. More information is given on the journal web page at http://www.acm.org/tissec.

IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing,   Editor-in-Chief: Ravi Sandhu
The IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing publishes archival research results related to research into foundations, methodologies, and mechanisms that support the achievement—through design, modeling, and evaluation—of systems and networks that are dependable and secure to the desired degree without compromising performance. The focus will also include measurement, modeling, and simulation techniques, and foundations for jointly evaluating, verifying, and designing for performance, security, and dependability constraints. More information is given on the journal web page at http://www.computer.org/portal/web/tdsc.

The Springer Series on ADVANCES IN INFORMATION SECURITY
The purpose of the Advances in Information Security book series is to establish the state of the art and set the course for future research in information security. The scope of this series includes not only all aspects of computer, network security, and cryptography, but related areas, such as fault tolerance and software assurance. The series serves as a central source of reference for information security research and developments. The series aims to publish thorough and cohesive overviews on specific topics in Information Security, as well as works that are larger in scope than survey articles and that will contain more detailed background information. The series also provides a single point of coverage of advanced and timely topics and a forum for topics that may not have reached a level of maturity to warrant a comprehensive textbook. Prospective Authors or Editors: If you have an idea for a book that would fit in this series, we would welcome the opportunity to review your proposal. Should you wish to discuss any potential project further or receive specific information regarding book proposal requirements, please contact Professor Sushil Jajodia (jajodia@gmu.edu,703-993-1653).
 
Journal of Computer Security,   Editor-in-Chief: John Mitchell and Pierangela Samarati
JCS is an archival research journal for significant advances in computer security. Subject areas include architecture, operating systems, database systems, networks, authentication, distributed systems, formal models, verification, algorithms, mechanisms, and policies. All papers must be submitted online at http://www.iospress.nl/journal/journal-of-computer-security/. More information is given on the journal web page at http://jcs.stanford.edu/.
 
Computers & Security,   Editor-in-Chief: Eugene H. Spafford
Computers & Security aims to satisfy the needs of managers and experts involved in computer security by providing a blend of research developments, innovations, and practical management advice. Original submissions on all computer security topics are invited, particularly those of practical benefit to the practitioner. All papers must be submitted online at http://ees.elsevier.com/cose/. More information can be found at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/issn/01674048.
 
International Journal of Information Security,   Editors-in-Chief: D. Gollmann; J. Lopez; E. Okamoto
The International Journal of Information Security, IJIS, aims to provide prompt publication of important technical work in information security, attracting any person interested in communications, commerce, banking, medicine, or other areas of endeavor affected by information security. Any research submission on theory, applications, and implementations of information security is welcomed. This includes, but is not limited to, system security, network security, content protection, applications and foundations of information security. More information is given on the journal web page at http://www.springer.com/computer/security+and+cryptology/journal/10207.
 
International Journal of Network Security,   Editors-in-Chief: Min-Shiang Hwang
International Journal of Network Security is an international official journal of Science Publications, publishing original articles, reviews and short communications of a high scientific and technology in network security. Subjects covered include: access control, computer security, cryptography, communications security, data security, database security, electronic commerce security, information security, multimedia security, and network security. Authors are strongly encouraged to submit their papers electronically by using online manuscript submission at http://ijns.nchu.edu.tw/, or submit their Word, ps or pdf file to the editor-in-chief (via Email: mshwang@isrc.nchu.edu.tw): Min-Shiang Hwang, at the Department of Management Information Systems, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan, R.O.C.  More information can be found at http://ijns.femto.com.tw/.
 
International Journal of Security and Networks,   Editors-in-Chief: Yang Xiao
International Journal of Security and Networks is an archival research journal for significant advances in network security. Subject areas include attack models, security mechanisms, security services, authentication, authorization, access control, multicast security, data confidentiality, data integrity, non-repudiation, forensics, privacy protection, secure protocols, formal analyses, intrusion detection, key management, trust establishment, revocation of malicious parties, security policies, fraudulent usage, dependability and reliability, prevention of traffic analysis, network security performance evaluation, tradeoff analysis between performance and security, security standards, etc. All papers must be submitted online at http://www.inderscience.com/ijsn/. More information is given on the journal web page at http://www.inderscience.com/ijsn/.
 
International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection,   Editors-in-Chief: Sujeet Shenoi
International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection's primary aim is to publish high quality scientific and policy papers in all areas of critical infrastructure protection. Of particular interest are articles that weave science, technology and policy to craft sophisticated yet practical solutions that will secure information, computer and network assets in the various critical infrastructure sectors. All papers must be submitted online at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/ijcip. More information is given on the journal web page at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/ijcip.
 
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security,   Editors-in-Chief: C.-C. Jay Kuo
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security aims to provide a unified locus for archival research on the fundamental contributions and the mathematics behind information forensics, information security, surveillance, and systems applications that incorporate these features. Authors are strongly encouraged to submit their papers electronically to the online manuscript system, Manuscript Central, via sps-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com.  More information can be found at http://www.ieee.org/organizations/society/sp/tifs.html.
 
IEEE Transactions on Privacy,   Editor-in-Chief: Christopher W. Clifton
IEEE Transactions on Privacy (TP) provides a multidisciplinary forum for theoretical, methodological, engineering, and applications aspects of privacy and data protection. Privacy, in this context, is defined as the freedom from unauthorized intrusion in its broadest sense, arising from any activity in information collection, information processing, information dissemination, or invasion. Contributions to solving privacy problems in various application domains such as healthcare are also accepted. Purely theoretical papers with no potential application or purely developmental work without any methodological contribution or generalizability would not be in scope. To submit an article, please use the IEEE Author Portal. Detailed information on submitting your paper to an IEEE Computer Society publication can be found on the Author Guidelines page.  More information can be found at https://www.computer.org/csdl/journals/pr.
 
EURASIP Journal on Information Security,   Editors-in-Chief: Stefan Katzenbeisser
EURASIP Journal on Information Security aims to bring together researchers and practitioners dealing with the general field of information security, with a particular emphasis on the use of signal processing tools in adversarial environments. As such, it addresses all works whereby security is achieved through a combination of techniques from cryptography, computer security, machine learning and multimedia signal processing. Application domains lie, for example, in secure storage, retrieval and tracking of multimedia data, secure outsourcing of computations, forgery detection of multimedia data, or secure use of biometrics. The journal also welcomes survey papers that give the reader a gentle introduction to one of the topics covered as well as papers that report large-scale experimental evaluations of existing techniques. Pure cryptographic papers are outside the scope of the journal. The journal also welcomes proposals for Special Issues. All papers must be submitted online at http://jis.eurasipjournals.com/manuscript.  More information can be found at http://jis.eurasipjournals.com.