Call for Papers

• 42nd IFIP TC-11 International Conference on Information Security and Privacy Protection (SEC 2027)
• 14-16 June 2027
• Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

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). 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. For a PDF version of this call for papers click here

Topics

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

• Access control and authentication
• Agentic AI security
• AI for cybersecurity
• AI/ML security and privacy
• Applied cryptography
• Audit and risk analysis
• Big data security and privacy
• Cloud security and privacy
• Critical infrastructure protection
• Cyber-physical and industrial control systems security
• Data and applications security
• Digital forensics
• Formal methods and verification for security
• Hardware security and side-channel attacks
• Human aspects of security and privacy
• Identity management
• Information security education
• Information security management
• Information technology misuse and the law
• IoT security
• Malware analysis and detection
• Mobile security
• Network & distributed systems security
• Pervasive systems security
• Phishing, social engineering and fraud
• Privacy protection and Privacy-by-design
• Privacy-enhancing technologies
• Quantum computations and post-quantum cryptography
• Software security and vulnerability discovery
• Surveillance and counter-surveillance
• Threat intelligence and security operations
• 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Submitted papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted to another conference or journal for consideration.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 Springer's AI guidance for researchers.

Submitted papers will be evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, presentation, and clarity of exposition. 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.

Further information on the conference and submission: https://ifipsec.org/

Awards

Computers & Security, published by Elsevier, is the sponsor for the Best Paper Award. 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 best student paper will receive the Yves Deswarte Best Student Paper Award. The award will carry a prize to the value of €1,000 (EUR).

Co-Located Events

Along with IFIP SEC 2027, it is anticipated that additional TC11 Working Groups will co-locate their workshops and meetings. Further details can be found on our website.

Important Dates

Organising Committee

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