Please note that this is by no means a comprehensive list of security conferences, just a list of the ones I want to keep track of, and some of the better known conferences in other areas of security (e.g. in cryptography). I have also restricted myself, for the most part, to conferences with an academic flavour.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done. - Fred Allen
Created: 21 February 2003
Last Updated: 21 December 2008
Maintainer: Carrie Gates
| Conference | Dates | Paper Submission Due | Notification | Location | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security | 11-13 May 2009 | 22 December 2008 | 26 January 2009 | Waltham, MA | Abstracts only, not full papers |
| International Conference on Persuasive Technology | 27-29 April 2008 | 2 January 2009 | 28 February 2009 | Claremont, CA, USA | Not security, but cool! |
| International Conference on Trust Management | 15-19 June 2009 | 7/12 January 2009 | ? | West Lafayette, IN, USA | Submit abstract, then paper |
| ACM Computers, Freedom & Privacy | 1-4 June 2009 | 9 January 2009 | ? | Washington, DC, USA | Proposal/speakers/tutorials, not peer-reviewed publications |
| Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS) | 2-5 June 2009 | 12 January 2009 | ? | Paris-Rocquencourt, France | |
| Cyber Security and Information Infrastructure Research Workshop | 13-15 April 2009 | 15 January 2009 | 15 February 2009 | Oak Ridge National Lab, TN, USA | Extended abstracts, not full papers |
| ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT) | 3-5 June 2009 | 16 January 2009 | 6 March 2009 | Stresa, Italy | access control conference; submit abstract then paper |
| Systematic Approaches to Digital Forensic Engineering (SADFE) | 21 May 2009 | 17 January 2009 | ? | Oakland, CA, USA | Associated with IEEE S&P (Oakland) |
| Workshop on Large-scale Exploits and Emergent Threats (LEET) | 21 April 2009 | 16 January 2009 | 2 March 2009 | Boston, MA, USA | |
| International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM) | 10-13 May 2009 | 17 January 2009 | 2 March 2009 | Goteborg, Sweden | |
| European Conference on Information Warfare and Security (ECIW) | 6-7 July 2009 | 19 January / 2 Feburary 2009 | 13 April 2009 | Lisbon, Portugal | abstracts due in January, papers due in February |
| IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics | 8-11 June 2009 | 20 January 2009 | 20 February 2009 | Dallas, TX, USA | |
| ACM SIGCOMM | 17-21 August 2009 | 23/30 January 2009 | 30 April 2009 | Barcelona, Spain | Not a security conference; Submit abstract then paper |
| International Symposium on Human Aspects of Information Security and Assurance (HAISA) | 25-26 June 2009 | 31 January 2009 | 6 March 2009 | Athens, Greece | |
| Workshop on Digital Forensics & Incident Analysis (WDFIA) | 25-26 June 2009 | 31 January 2009 | 6 March 2009 | Athens, Greece | Held in conjunction with HAISA |
| Information Hiding Workshop | 7-10 June 2009 | 1 February 2009 | 6 April 2009 | Darmstadt, Germany | |
| Usenix Security Symposium | 10-14 August 2009 | 4 February 2009 | 13 April 2009 | Montreal, Canada | Applied security |
| International Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware, and Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA) | July/July 2009 | 6 February 2009 | March 30, 2009 | Milan, Italy | |
| IEEE Computer Security Foundations Workshop | 8-10 July 2009 | 6 February 2009 | 27 March 2009 | Port Jefferson, NY, USA | Informal discussion of formal methods |
| Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ACISP) | 1-3 July 2009 | 9 February 2009 | 9 April 2009 | Brisbane, Australia | accepts mostly (but not only!) cryptography protocols |
| Crypto | 16-20 August 2009 | 13 February 2009 | 30 April 2009 | Santa Barbara, USA | *THE* crypto conference! |
| IFIP WG 11.3 Working Conference on Data and Applications Security | 12-15 July 2009 | 20 February 2009 | 10 April 2009 | Montreal, Canada | |
| International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Digital Business | 31 August - 4 September 2009 | 20 February 2009 | 26 April 2009 | Linz, Austria | Associated with DEXA |
| Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS) | 15-17 July 2009 | 27 February 2009 | 20 April 2009 | Mountain View, CA, USA | |
| Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS) | 24-25 June 2009 | 28 February 2009 | 10 April 2009 | University College London, England | |
| International Conference on Information Assurance and Security | 18-20 August 2009 | 1 March 2009 | 1 April 2009 | Xi'an, China | |
| Workshop on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PET) | 5-7 August 2009 | 2 March 2009 | 24 April 2009 | Seattle, WA, USA | |
| Virus Bulletin | 23-25 September 2009 | 6 March 2009 | ? | Geneva, Switzerland | Submit abstract, not paper |
| Digital Forensics Research Workshop | 17-19 August 2009 | 16 March 2009 | 28 April 2009 | Montreal, Canada | |
| Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing | 30 September - 3 October 2009 | 16 March 2009 | 18 May 2009 | Tucson, AZ, USA | Not a security conference |
| International Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis | 31 August - 2 September 2009 | 30 March 2009 | 7 May 2009 | Lyon, France | Not a security conference |
| SuperComputing | 14-20 November 2009 | 3/6 April 2009 | 29 June 2009 | Portland, OR, USA | Not a security conference; submit abstract then paper |
| Usenix Large Installations Systems Administration Conference (LISA) | 1-6 November 2009 | 30 April 2009 | 7 July 2009 | Baltimore, MD | Often has security papers |
| Conference | Dates | Paper Submission Due | Notification | Location | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) | 5-8 January 2009 | --- (15/6/2008) | --- (15/8/2008) | Hawaii, USA | security mini-tracks are under Software Technology Track |
| FloCon | 12-15 January 2009 | --- (24/10/2008) | --- (7/11/2008) | Scottsdale, AZ, US | Flow-based security analysis; submit abstracts only |
| International Conference on Forensic Applications and Techniques in Telecommunications, Information and Multimedia | 19-21 January 2009 | --- (12/9/2008) | --- (17/10/2008) | Adelaide, Australia | |
| Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) | 8-11 February 2009 | --- (12/9/2008) | --- (3/11/2008) | San Diego, CA, USA | |
| Financial Cryptography | 23-26 February 2009 | --- (17/10/2008) | --- (8/12/2008) | Barbados | |
| Symposium on Applied Computing | 8-12 March 2009 | --- (16/8/2008) | --- (11/10/2008) | Honolulu, HI, USA | has a track on forensics and another on security |
| International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security | 16-19 March 2009 | --- (15/10/2008) | --- (20/11/2008) | Fukoka, Japan | |
| IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Cyber Security (CICS) | 30 March - 2 April 2009 | --- (31/10/2008) | ? | Nashville, TN, USA | |
| Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and Prediction | 31 March - 1 April 2009 | --- (5/11/2008) | --- (26/11/2008) | Phoenix, AZ, USA | Not a security conference, but cool none the less |
| Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) | 5-9 April 2009 | --- (19/9/2008) | TBA | Boston, MA, USA | sometimes has papers on privacy or security specific issues |
| Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks (TRIDENT) | 6-8 April 2009 | --- (15/10/2008) | --- (15/12/2008) | Washington, DC, USA | Not a security conference |
| Symposium on Identity and Trust on the Internet (IDtrust 2009) | 14-16 April 2009 | --- (17/11/2008) | 15 January 2009 | Gaithersburg, MD, USA | |
| RSA Conference | 20-24 April 2009 | --- (24/10/2008) | ? | San Francisco, CA, USA | |
| International World Wide Web Conference | 20-24 April 2009 | --- (31/10/2008) | ? | Madrid, Spain | Often has a security track |
| Usenix/ACM Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI) | 22-24 April 2009 | --- (3/10/2008) | --- (19/12/2008) | Boston, MA, USA | Accepts security papers; submit abstract then paper |
| Eurocrypt | 26-30 April 2009 | --- (3/9/2008) | 19 December 2008 | Cologne, Germany | |
| IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy | 17-19 May 2009 | --- (10/11/2008) | 30 January 2009 | Oakland, CA, USA | *THE* securty conference |
| IFIP International Information Security Conference | 18-20 May 2009 | --- (30/10/2008) | 20 December 2008 | Pafos, Cyprus | |
| International Conference on Game Theory for Networks | 20-22 May 2009 | --- (15/11/2008) | 1 March 2009 | Istanbul, Turkey | |
| Integrated Network Management | 1-5 June 2009 | --- (1/8/2008) | --- (15/11/2008) | New York, NY, USA | Accepts security papers; submit abstract then paper |
| International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE) | 8-12 June 2009 | --- (30/11/2008) | 8 February 2009 | Amsterdam, NL | Not a security conference |
| IEEE Communication and Information Systems Security Symposium (CISS) | 14-18 June 2009 | --- (29/9/2008) | 15 January 2009 | Dresden, Germany | |
| ACM SIGMETRICS | 15-19 June 2009 | --- (17/11/2008) | 9 February 2009 | Seattle, WA, USA | Not a security conference; submit abstract then paper |
| Annual Computer Security Incident Handling Conference (FIRST) | 28 June - 3 July 2009 | --- (1/11/2008) | 15 January 2009 | Kyoto, Japan | |
| The International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN) | 29 June - 2 July 2009 | --- (8/12/2008) | ? | Lisbon, Portugal | Often accepts security papers; submit abstract then paper; will have author rebuttal phase this year (like CHI) |
| International Verification Workshop | 10-11 August 2008 | --- (5/6/2008) | --- (30/6/2008) | Sydney, Australia | Formal verification of information systems; submit abstract then paper |
| Selected Areas in Cryptography (SAC) | 13-14 August 2009 | --- (18/5/2008) | --- (23/6/2008) | Calgary, Alberta, Canada | Crypto |
| New Security Paradigms Workshop (NSPW) | 8-11 September 2009 | --- (18/4/2008) | --- (3/6/2008) | Oxford, UK | Only authors of accepted papers can attend - specializes in innovative (risky) ideas |
| International Symposium on Global Information Governance | 15-16 September 2009 | ? | ? | Prague, Czech Republic | Combines technology, legal and business |
| Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID) | 23-25 September 2009 | --- (4/4/2008) | --- (6/6/2008) | Britanny, France | *THE* intrusion detection conference! |
| Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) | 7-11 December 2008 | --- (8/6/2008) | --- (18/8/2008) | Hawaii, USA | |
| Web 2.0 Security and Privacy (W2SP) | late May 2009 | --- (7/3/2008) | --- (28/3/2008) | Oakland, CA, USA | Held with IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland) |
| International Workshop on Security and Trust Management | mid June 2009 | --- (2/4/2008) | --- (5/5/2008) | Trondheim, Norway | Submit abstract then paper |
| Workshop on Security, Privacy and Trust in Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (SecPerU) | mid July 2009 | --- (13/4/2008) | --- (5/5/2008) | Sorrento, Italy | Held with IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Services (ICPS) |
| Workshop on Advanced Computing for Critical Systems and EMergency Preparedness and Response | mid July 2009 | --- (10/3/2008) | --- (1/4/2008) | Sao Paulo, Brazil | |
| ACM SIGKDD International Workshop on Privacy, Security, and Trust in KDD | late August 2009 | --- (30/5/2008) | --- (27/6/2008) | Las Vegas, NV, USA | Associated with ACM SIGKDD |
| Adaptive and Resilient Computing Security Workshop | September 2009 | --- (30/6/2008) | ? | London, UK | adaptive and biologically-inspired approaches to security |
| Information Security Conference (ISC) | mid September 2009 | --- (15/3/2008) | --- (20/5/2008) | Taipei, Taiwan | |
| European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS) | early October 2009 | --- (7/4/2008) | --- (16/6/2008) | Malaga, Spain | |
| Workshop on Visualization for Computer Security | mid October 2009 | --- (2/5/2008) | --- (6/6/2008) | Atlantic City, NJ, USA | Associated with VizWeek |
| APWG eCrime Researchers Summit | mid October 2009 | --- (5/6/2008) | 29 July 2008 | Atlanta, GA, USA | |
| Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) | mid October 2009 | --- (2/5/2008) | 18 July 2008 | Vouliagmeni, Greece | Not a security conference; submit abstract then paper |
| ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) | late October 2009 | --- (14/4/2008) | 8 July 2008 | Alexandria, VA, USA | |
| International Conference on Risks and Security of Internet and Systems (CRISIS) | late October 2009 | --- (19/5/2008) | --- (25/6/2008) | Tozeur, Tunisia | |
| Symposium on Computer Human Interaction for Management of Information Technology | mid November 2009 | --- (21/4/2008) | --- (30/6/2008) | San Diego, CA, USA | |
| International Symposium on Information Security | mid November 2009 | --- (15/6/2008) | --- (10/8/2008) | Monterrey, Mexico | Submit abstract and then paper |
| Asiacrypt | mid December 2009 | --- (3/6/2008) | --- (15/8/2008) | Melbourne, Australia | |
| European Conference on Computer Network Defense | mid December 2009 | --- (1/9/2008) | --- (18/9/2008) | Dublin, Ireland | |
| Workshop on Information Security and Privacy | mid December 2009 | --- (5/9/2008) | 10 October 2008 | Paris, France | |
| International Conference on Information Systems Security | mid December 2009 | --- (19/7/2008) | --- (8/9/2008) | Hyderabad, India | |
| IFIP/IEEE Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS) | mid April 2010 | --- (15/9/2007) | --- (1/12/2007) | Salvador Bahia, Brazil | has some security papers |