IFIP SEC conferences are the flagship events of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Technical Committee 11 (TC11) on Information Security and Privacy Protection in Information Processing Systems.

The IFIP SEC conferences aim to bring together primarily researchers, but also practitioners from academia, industry and governmental institutions to elaborate and discuss IT Security and Privacy Challenges that we are facing today and will be facing into the future.  IFIP SEC 2026 will be co-located with the WG11.1 WISM and WG11.8 WISE conferences.

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.

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Submitted papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted to another conference or journal for consideration.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 the Springer LNCS formatting instructions. For camera-ready papers use Latex or Word format (author instructions and templates can be found here: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines).

Each paper will receive at least three reviews. 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. Any papers considered for COSE will be expected to be further developed such that they contain at least 30% new material from what is published in the proceedings.

List of Topics

• Access control and authentication
• AI for cybersecurity
• 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 securityMultilateral security
• Network & distributed systems security
• Pervasive systems security
• Privacy protection and Privacy-by-design
• Privacy-enhancing technologies
• Quantum computations and post-quantum cryptography
• Security and privacy in LLM's
• Side-channel attacks
• Surveillance and counter-surveillance
• Trust management

Committees

General Chair

• Helge Janicke, Edith Cowan University, Australia

Program Chairs

• Lynn Futcher, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa
• Iqbal Sarker, Edith Cowan University, Australia
• Kerry-Lynn Thomson, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa

Other chairs

• Organising chair: Paul Haskell-Dowland, Edith Cowan University, Australia
• Publicity chair: Ahmad Mohsin, Edith Cowan University, Australia

Publication

Proceedings from this conference series will be published by Springer under the International Conference on ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection series.

Venue

The 2026 IFIP SEC Conference will be hosted at the Pan Pacific Hotel by Edith Cowan University in Perth, Australia. Perth is the capital city of Western Australia with a rich cultural history. Delegates can enjoy the natural beauty of the state, with miles of beaches, acres of forests, fascinating street art, restaurants and wineries.

Contact

Please refer to the SEC website for logistics information. All questions about submissions should be emailed to p.haskelldowland@ecu.edu.au