Calls for Papers

Last Modified:1/27/25

Upcoming Conferences and Workshops

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NDSS 2025 Network and Distributed System Security Symposium and Workshops, San Diego, CA, USA, February 23-28, 2025. [posted here 6/3/24]
The Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) 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 2025. 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/ndss2025/submisions/call-for-papers/.

USEC 2025 Symposium on Usable Security and Privacy, Co-located with NDSS Symposium 2025, San Diego, California, USA, February 24, 2025. [posted here 11/18/24]
The Symposium on Usable Security and Privacy (USEC) invites submissions on all aspects of human factors and usability in the context of security and privacy. USEC ’25 aims to bring together researchers already engaged in this interdisciplinary effort with other researchers in relevant areas. We encourage economics, HCI, AI, theoretical computer science, cryptography, psychology, and business studies researchers and practitioners to submit original research in this area. We particularly encourage collaborative research from authors in multiple fields. To honor significant contributions that have had a lasting impact on the field, USEC ’25 will also feature a Test of Time Award. This award will celebrate research demonstrating enduring relevance and influence in usable security and privacy over the past 14 years of USEC. We will invite nominations for this award from the Organizing Committee, Program Committee, and authors submitting their works to USEC ’25. This recognition will honor research that continues to shape and inspire current and future investigations in the discipline.

For more information, please see https://www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss2025/submissions/cfp-usec/.

SDIoTSec 2025 Workshop on Security and Privacy in Standardized IoT, Co-located with NDSS Symposium 2025, San Diego, California, USA, February 24, 2025. [posted here 11/18/24]
We invite researchers and practitioners to submit original research papers for the second Workshop on Security and Privacy in Standardized IoT (SDIoTSec 2025). The aim of this workshop is to bring together experts from academia, industry, open-source community, governments to discuss and address security and privacy challenges emerging in standardized IoT design and implementations and their real-world deployments. The expected impacts include significantly eliminating security and privacy threats in both the design and implementation space of IoT. The PC will select a best paper award for work that distinguishes itself in advancing the security, safety, and privacy of standardized IoT design and implementation.

For more information, please see https://www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss2025/submissions/cfp-sdiotsec/.

SpaceSec 2025 Workshop on the Security of Space and Satellite Systems, Co-located with NDSS Symposium 2025, San Diego, California, USA, February 24, 2025. [posted here 11/18/24]
In the upcoming years, a significant increase in the number of satellites is expected as novel mega-constellations take their position in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). Including initiatives like Starlink and OneWeb, projections suggest the deployment of over 100,000 satellites in the next several years. They have increasingly become integral components of both consumer-oriented and critical infrastructures.

These critical functions, ranging from global navigation and positioning systems to providing phone connections and imaging data, play an ever more crucial role in modern society. The precarious place of satellite systems in the communication and navigation infrastructure naturally makes them attractive targets for cyber attacks. This was evidenced in a major attack on the ViaSat network during the initial days of the war in Ukraine and ongoing disruptions of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) around the world.

The principal vulnerability of satellite systems has been public knowledge since the mid-2000s. Despite early warnings, the security of both legacy and novel deployments remains severely lacking. Recent publications have renewed interest and highlighted the persistence of security issues, now on a much larger scale.

SpaceSec aims to bring together academic researchers, industry professionals, and government representatives to contribute to new theories, technologies, and systems for security/privacy challenges in space and on the ground.

For more information, please see https://www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss2025/submissions/cfp-spacesec/.

WOSOC 2025 Workshop on SOC Operations and Construction, Co-located with NDSS Symposium 2025, San Diego, California, USA, February 24, 2025. [posted here 11/18/24]
Security Operations Centers (SOCs) are a field of growing interest for both researchers and SOC operators. SOC operators are increasingly recognized as a distinct class of security professionals who need tools and practices that address the distinct challenges and insights of their discipline. In parallel to this increased professionalization by the operational community is an increased interest in the academic community: researchers are studying SOC processes, workflows, and training.

The WOSOC workshop is a common forum for both operators and researchers to share their insights in this emerging field. The WOSOC workshop solicits proposals from operators and researchers on two separate tracks – operators can submit talk proposals to discuss their work and experience, while researchers submit short papers.

Accepted works will be presented and discussed at the 2025 WOSOC workshop co-located with NDSS Symposium 2025. WOSOC is an open workshop, but in order to enable serious discussion of operational security topics, the workshop will adhere to the Chatham House Rule.

For more information, please see https://www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss2025/submissions/cfp-wosoc/.

FutureG 2025 Workshop on Security and Privacy of Next-Generation Networks, Co-located with NDSS Symposium 2025, San Diego, California, USA, February 24, 2025. [posted here 11/18/24]
The FutureG Workshop on Security and Privacy of Next-Generation Networks, co-located with NDSS Symposium 2025 in San Diego, California, aims to unite researchers, industry professionals, and government representatives to tackle these emerging security and privacy issues in next-generation networks, including 5G, 6G, and beyond. The workshop will feature paper presentations and an interactive panel discussion to foster collaboration and the exchange of innovative ideas.

For more information, please see https://www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss2025/submissions/cfp-futureg/.

MADWeb 2025 Workshop on Measurements, Attacks, and Defenses for the Web, Co-located with NDSS Symposium 2025, San Diego, California, USA, February 28, 2025. [posted here 11/18/24]
The web connects billions of devices, running a plethora of clients, and serves billions of users every day. To cope with such a widespread adoption, the web constantly changes. This is evident by some browsers that have a release cycle of just six weeks. Unfortunately, these rapid changes are not always designed with a security mindset, resulting in new attack vectors not observed before.

The MADWeb workshop aims to attract researchers who work on the intersection of browser evolution and web security. Our goal is to create and sustain a specialized venue for discussing any aspects of web security and privacy, such as the rapid changes to browsers from a security perspective, the security implications of current web technologies, how we can protect users now, and make browsers in the future more secure without hindering the evolution of the web.

Since MADWeb merged with the SecWeb workshop, in 2025 we welcome ideas on extending the web with novel security mechanisms, better access interfaces (browsers), and disciplined programming abstractions to support secure web application development natively. Moreover, we invite contributions that propose provocative thoughts on re-envisioning (part of) the current web platform with security built-in by design.

For more information, please see https://www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss2025/submissions/cfp-madweb/.

IMPACT 2025 Workshop on Innovation in Metadata Privacy-Analysis and Construction Techniques, Co-located with NDSS Symposium 2025, San Diego, California, USA, February 28, 2025. [posted here 11/18/24]
IMPACT seeks submissions related to all aspects of metadata privacy. We encourage researchers to submit short papers on ongoing or planned work that can be read by participants in advance of the event. The workshop will schedule 20 minute slots for presentations, broken into a 15-minute talk followed by a 5-minute Q&A period.

For more information, please see https://www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss2025/submissions/cfp-impact/.

BAR 2025 Binary Analysis Research Workshop, Co-located with NDSS Symposium 2025, San Diego, California, USA, February 28, 2025. [posted here 11/18/24]
The Binary Analysis Research Workshop (BAR) aims to create a space for the binary analysis research community to interact, foster collaboration, and present their cutting-edge works — with half of the workshop dedicated to traditional paper sessions and the other half to a roundtable discussion among binary analysis researchers, developers, and practitioners. To this end, we welcome submissions on all aspects of binary analysis, including: security, reverse engineering, visualization, AI and ML, theory, human factors, gamification, tool development, and transition-to-practice.

For more information, please see https://www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss2025/submissions/cfp-bar/.

SELLMOD 2025 Workshop on the Safety and Explainability of Large Models Optimization and Deployment, Co-located with NDSS Symposium 2025, San Diego, California, USA, February 28, 2025. [posted here 11/18/24]
The widespread application of artificial intelligence technologies across various fields has become a critical driving force for modern societal development, especially for deep neural networks and large language models. However, these models with a large number of parameters pose challenges to be deployed in the devices with limited resources, especially for the distributed edge devices. In recent years, researchers have proposed various optimization techniques, such as model distillation, pruning, and compression and so on, aiming to reduce computational resource consumption while retaining the system performance. However, the optimization process raises safety concerns. Model compression and simplification may introduce novel vulnerabilities, making the models more susceptible to attacks. While optimizing models reduce computational resource consumption, they also challenge the decision-making process, complicating the interpretation of model behaviours. Thus, ensuring the safety, robustness, and explainability of large models while improving computational efficiency and resource utilization is our main goal.

To address these challenges, our goal is to gather researchers and experts from the areas of but not limited to model optimization, safety, and explainability at this NDSS Symposium Workshop. We aim to find innovative solutions that balance performance optimization, safety assurance, and explainability through interdisciplinary exchange and collaboration. We hope this workshop will become an important platform promoting the continuous research and development of AI technologies, further advancing research in model optimization concerning safety and explainability.

For more information, please see https://www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss2025/submissions/cfp-sellmod/.

DFDS 2025 1st Digital Forensics Doctoral Symposium, Held in conjunction with Digital Forensics Research Conference Europe (DFRWS EU 2025), Brno, Czech Republic, April 1, 2025. [posted here 7/22/24]
We are excited to announce the inaugural Digital Forensics Doctoral Symposium (DFDS), organised by DFRWS EU. This symposium provides a unique platform for doctoral students to share their (early-stage) research, engage in discussions with peers, and build connections within the digital forensics community. By co-locating DFDS with DFRWS EU, participants also gain the opportunity to attend the main conference, interact with leading experts in the field, and benefit from a rich exchange of ideas. We invite doctoral students to join us for this enriching experience.

For more information, please see https://www.dfrws.org/conferences/dfds2025/.

DFRWS EU 2025 Digital Forensics Research Conference Europe, Hybrid, Brno, Czech Republic, April 1-4, 2025. [posted here 7/22/24]
DFRWS EU is open to fresh insights that challenge the current boundaries of digital forensics. The submissions can cover a broad range of topics related to digital forensics. This year, we are organising the inaugural Digital Forensic Doctoral Symposium, which will be held on 1st April 2025. Furthermore, the Women in Forensic Computing Workshop (WIFC) is co-locating with DFRWS and will be held on Monday 31th March 2025. A separate WIFC registration is required.

For more information, please see https://dfrws.org/conferences/dfrws-eu-2025/.

SaTML 2025 3rd IEEE Conference on Secure and Trustworthy Machine Learning, Copenhagen, Denmark, April 9-11, 2025. [posted here 7/29/24]
IEEE SaTML expands upon the theoretical and practical understandings of vulnerabilities inherent to machine learning (ML), explore the robustness of learning algorithms and systems, and aid in developing a unified, coherent scientific community which aims to establish trustworthy machine learning. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- Novel attacks on machine learning
- Novel defenses for machine learning
- Secure and safe machine learning in practice
- Verification of algorithms and systems
- Privacy in machine learning
- Forensic analysis of machine learning
- Fairness and interpretability
- Trustworthy data curation

For more information, please see https://satml.org/participate-cfp/.

HOST 2025 18th IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust, San Jose, CA, USA, May 5-8, 2025. [posted here 8/12/24]
IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST) is the premier symposium that facilitates the rapid growth of hardware-based security research and development. Since 2008, HOST has served as the globally recognized event for researchers and practitioners to advance knowledge and technologies related to hardware security and assurance.
- Computer-aided Design (CAD) for Hardware Security Verification
- Hardware Security Primitives
- Hardware Attack and Defense
- Architecture Security
- System security
- Emerging Security and Privacy Threats and Solutions

For more information, please see http://www.hostsymposium.org/call-for-paper.php.

SP 2025 46th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, San Francisco, CA, USA, May 12-15, 2025. [posted here 6/3/24]
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 “SoK:” 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/.

For more information, please see https://www.sp2025.ieee-security.org/cfpapers.html.

IFIP TC-11 SEC 2025 40th IFIP TC-11 International Information Security and Privacy Conference, Maribor, Slovenia, May 21-23, 2025. [posted here 11/18/24]
The IFIP SEC conference is the flagship event of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Technical Committee 11 on Security and Privacy Protection in Information Processing Systems (TC-11, www.ifiptc11.org). We seek submissions from academia, industry, and government presenting novel research on all theoretical and practical aspects of security and privacy protection in ICT Systems. Practitioners and industry representatives are encouraged to submit papers. We welcome contributions within, but not limited to, the following areas:
- Access control and authentication
- 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
- Side-channel attacks
- Surveillance and counter-surveillance
- Trust management

For more information, please see http://sec2025.um.si/.

IEEE EuroS&P 2025 10th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy, Venice, Italy, June 30 - July 4, 2025. [posted here 11/1/24]
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. Following this story of success, IEEE initiated the European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P), which is organized every year in a European city. The IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (Euro S&P) is the younger, more adventurous, and tastier sibling conference of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy ("Oakland" or "NorCal S&P") conference. It is a premier forum for computer security and privacy research, presenting the latest developments and bringing together researchers and practitioners. We solicit previously unpublished papers offering novel research contributions in security or privacy, as well as Systematization of Knowledge papers that systematize previous results. EuroS&P is interested in all aspects of applied computer security and privacy. We especially encourage papers that are far-reaching and risky, provided those papers show sufficient promise for creating interesting discussions and usefully questioning widely-held beliefs. Papers without a clear connection to security or privacy will be considered out of scope and may be rejected without full review.

For more information, please see https://eurosp2025.ieee-security.org.

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.