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MAY 20-23, 2024 AT THE HILTON SAN FRANCISCO UNION SQUARE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA

45th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy

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Call For Papers

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 We solicit previously unpublished papers offering novel research contributions in any aspect of security or privacy.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
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• Security architectures
• Security for at-risk populations
• Software supply chain security
• Systems security
• User studies for security and privacy
• Web security and privacy
• 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/ .

Submission Deadlines & Decisions (Important Updates)

Similar to 2023, there will be three submission deadlines this year. For each submission, one of the following decisions will be made:

Accept : Papers in this category will be accepted for publication in the proceedings and presentation at the conference. Within one month of acceptance, all accepted papers must submit a camera-ready copy incorporating reviewer feedback. The papers will immediately be published, open access, in the Computer Society’s Digital Library, and they may be cited as “To appear in the IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy, May 2024”.

Reject : Papers in this category are declined for inclusion in the conference. Rejected papers must wait for one year, from the date of original submission, to resubmit to IEEE S&P. A paper will be judged to be a resubmit (as opposed to a new submission) if the paper is from the same or similar authors, and a reviewer could write a substantially similar summary of the paper compared with the original submission. As a rule of thumb, if there is more than 40% overlap between the original submission and the new paper, it will be considered a resubmission.

Public Meta-Reviews: All accepted papers will be published alongside a meta-review (< 500 words) that lists (a) the reasons the PC decided to accept the paper and (b) concerns the PC has with the paper. Authors will be given the option to write a response to the meta-review (< 500 words) which will be published as part of the meta-review. Authors will be given a draft meta-review at the time of acceptance. Authors will be given the option of addressing some or all of the concerns within one review cycle. A shepherd will remove concerns from the meta-review if they are sufficiently addressed by the revisions. Authors of papers accepted to the third submission cycle will be given the option to have their paper appear in the 2025 proceedings if they are not able to complete revisions in time for the final camera ready deadline.

The goal of this process is to provide greater transparency and to better scope change requests made by reviewers. More information about the reasons behind this change can be found here .

Re-Submission of Major Revisions from Prior Years: Authors resubmitting papers that received Major Revision decisions in 2023 will also be published with the public meta-reviews as described above.

More information about the reasons behind the above changes can be found here .

Important Dates

All deadlines are 23:59:59 AoE (UTC-12).

First deadline

• Paper submission deadline: April 13, 2023
• Early-reject notification: May 22, 2023
• Rebuttal period (interactive): June 19 - June 30, 2023
• Rebuttal text due: June 26, 2023
• Acceptance notification: July 10, 2023
• Camera-ready deadline: August 18, 2023

Second deadline

• Paper submission deadline: August 3, 2023
• Early-reject notification: September 11, 2023
• Rebuttal period (interactive): October 9 - October 20, 2023
• Rebuttal text due: October 16, 2023
• Acceptance notification: October 27, 2023
• Camera-ready deadline: December 8, 2023

Third deadline

• Paper submission deadline: December 6, 2023
• Early-reject notification: January 22, 2024
• Rebuttal period (interactive): February 19 - March 1, 2024
• Rebuttal text due: February 26, 2024
• Acceptance notification: March 8, 2024
• Camera-ready deadline: April 19, 2024

Rebuttal Period

Papers reaching the second round of reviewing will be given an opportunity to write a rebuttal to reviewer questions. The rebuttal period will be interactive, and is separate from the meta-review rebuttal given to accepted papers.

Authors have the opportunity to exchange messages with the reviewers and respond to questions asked. To this end, we will use HotCRP’s anonymous communication feature to enable a communication channel between authors and reviewers. The authors should mainly focus on factual errors in the reviews and concrete questions posed by the reviewers. New research results can also be discussed if they help to clarify open questions. More instructions will be sent out to the authors at the beginning of the rebuttal period.

2023 Major Revision Submissions & Rejected Papers

Papers submitted to one of the 2023 submission cycles may have received a Major Revision or Reject decision. For these papers, we will follow the rules defined in the 2023 Call for Papers, which allow authors of Major Revision papers to submit a revised paper to the next two submission deadlines after the notification. The table below summarizes the eligible 2023 deadlines for papers that received a revise decision or reject decision for a paper submitted to IEEE S&P’23 for each of the three 2023 cycles.

Instructions for Paper Submission

These instructions apply to both the research papers and systematization of knowledge (SoK) papers. All submissions must be original work; the submitter must clearly document any overlap with previously published or simultaneously submitted papers from any of the authors. Failure to point out and explain overlap will be grounds for rejection. Simultaneous submission of the same paper to another venue with proceedings or a journal is not allowed and will be grounds for automatic rejection. Contact the program committee chairs if there are questions about this policy.

Anonymous Submission

Papers must be submitted in a form suitable for anonymous review: no author names or affiliations may appear on the title page, and papers should avoid revealing authors’ identity in the text. When referring to their previous work, authors are required to cite their papers in the third person, without identifying themselves. In the unusual case in which a third-person reference is infeasible, authors can blind the reference itself. Papers that are not properly anonymized may be rejected without review. PC members who have a genuine conflict of interest with a paper, including the PC Co-Chairs and the Associate Chairs, will be excluded from evaluation and discussion of that paper.

While a paper is under submission to the IEEE Security & Privacy Symposium, authors may choose to give talks about their work, post a preprint of the paper to an archival repository such as arXiv, and disclose security vulnerabilities to vendors. Authors should refrain from widely advertising their results, but in special circumstances they should contact the PC chairs to discuss exceptions. Authors are not allowed to directly contact PC members to discuss their submission.

The submissions will be treated confidentially by the PC chairs and the program committee members. Program committee members are not allowed to share the submitted papers with anyone, with the exception of qualified external reviewers approved by the program committee chairs. Please contact the PC chairs if you have any questions or concerns.

Conflicts of Interest

During submission of a research paper, the submission site will request information about conflicts of interest of the paper’s authors with program committee (PC) members. It is the full responsibility of all authors of a paper to identify all and only their potential conflict-of-interest PC members, according to the following definition. A paper author has a conflict of interest with a PC member when and only when one or more of the following conditions holds:

The PC member is a co-author of the paper.

• For student interns, the student is conflicted with their supervisors and with members of the same research group. If the student no longer works for the organization, then they are not conflicted with a PC member from the larger organization.

The PC member has been a collaborator within the past two years.

The PC member is or was the author’s primary thesis advisor, no matter how long ago.

The author is or was the PC member’s primary thesis advisor, no matter how long ago.

• The PC member is a relative or close personal friend of the author.

For any other situation where the authors feel they have a conflict with a PC member, they must explain the nature of the conflict to the PC chairs, who will mark the conflict if appropriate. The program chairs will review declared conflicts. Papers with incorrect or incomplete conflict of interest information as of the submission closing time are subject to immediate rejection.

Research Ethics Committee

Similar to 2023, IEEE S&P 2024 has a research ethics committee (REC) that will check papers flagged by reviewers as potentially including ethically fraught research. The REC will review flagged papers and may suggest to the PC Chairs rejection of a paper on ethical grounds. The REC consists of members of the PC. Authors are encouraged to review the Menlo Report for general ethical guidelines for computer and information security research.

Ethical Considerations for Vulnerability Disclosure

Where research identifies a vulnerability (e.g., software vulnerabilities in a given program, design weaknesses in a hardware system, or any other kind of vulnerability in deployed systems), we expect that researchers act in a way that avoids gratuitous harm to affected users and, where possible, affirmatively protects those users. In nearly every case, disclosing the vulnerability to vendors of affected systems, and other stakeholders, will help protect users. It is the committee’s sense that a disclosure window of 45 days https://vuls.cert.org/confluence/display/Wiki/Vulnerability+Disclosure+Policy to 90 days https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/p/vulnerability-disclosure-faq.html ahead of publication is consistent with authors’ ethical obligations.

Longer disclosure windows (which may keep vulnerabilities from the public for extended periods of time) should only be considered in exceptional situations, e.g., if the affected parties have provided convincing evidence the vulnerabilities were previously unknown and the full rollout of mitigations requires additional time. The authors are encouraged to consult with the PC chairs in case of questions or concerns.

The version of the paper submitted for review must discuss in detail the steps the authors have taken or plan to take to address these vulnerabilities; but, consistent with the timelines above, the authors do not have to disclose vulnerabilities ahead of submission. If a paper raises significant ethical and/or legal concerns, it will be checked by the REC and it might be rejected based on these concerns. The PC chairs will be happy to consult with authors about how this policy applies to their submissions.

Ethical Considerations for Human Subjects Research

Submissions that describe experiments that could be viewed as involving human subjects, that analyze data derived from human subjects (even anonymized data), or that otherwise may put humans at risk should:

• Disclose whether the research received an approval or waiver from each of the authors’ institutional ethics review boards (IRB) if applicable.
• Discuss steps taken to ensure that participants and others who might have been affected by an experiment were treated ethically and with respect.

If a submission deals with any kind of personal identifiable information (PII) or other kinds of sensitive data, the version of the paper submitted for review must discuss in detail the steps the authors have taken to mitigate harms to the persons identified. If a paper raises significant ethical and/or legal concerns, it will be checked by the REC and it might be rejected based on these concerns. The PC chairs will be happy to consult with authors about how this policy applies to their submissions.

Financial and Non-financial competing interests

In the interests of transparency and to help readers form their own judgements of potential bias, the IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy requires authors and PC members to declare any competing financial and/or non-financial interests in relation to the work described. Authors need to include a disclosure of relevant financial interests in the camera-ready versions of their papers. This includes not just the standard funding lines, but should also include disclosures of any financial interest related to the research described. For example, “Author X is on the Technical Advisory Board of the ByteCoin Foundation,” or “Professor Y is the CTO of DoubleDefense, which specializes in malware analysis.” More information regarding this policy is available here .

Page Limit and Formatting

Submitted papers may include up to 13 pages of text and up to 5 pages for references and appendices, totaling no more than 18 pages. The same applies to camera-ready papers, although, at the PC chairs’ discretion, additional pages may be allowed for references and appendices. Reviewers are not required to read appendices.

Significant Change Starting with the Second Deadline (August 3, 2023):

Papers must be formatted for US letter (not A4) size paper. All submissions must use the IEEE “compsoc” conference proceedings template. LaTeX submissions using the IEEE templates must use IEEEtran.cls version 1.8b with options “conference,compsoc.” (That is, begin your LaTeX document with the line \documentclass[conference,compsoc]{IEEEtran}.). See the “IEEE Demo Template for Computer Society Conferences” Overleaf template for an example.

Papers that fail to use the “compsoc” template (including using the non-compsoc IEEE conference template), modify margins, font, or line spacing, or use egregious space scrunching are subject to rejection without review. Authors are responsible for verifying the paper format. While HotCRP provides some automated checking, the checks are limited.

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Submissions must be in Portable Document Format (.pdf). Authors should pay special attention to unusual fonts, images, and figures that might create problems for reviewers.

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Publications, recent advances in network security management, publication date, manuscript submission deadline, 16 november 2021, call for papers.

As the backbone of communications amongst objects, humans, companies, and administrations, the Internet has become a great integration platform capable of efficiently interconnecting billions of entities, from RFID chips to data centers. This platform provides access to multiple hardware and virtualized resources (servers, networking, storage, applications, connected objects) ranging from cloud computing to Internet-of-Things infrastructures. From these resources that may be hosted and distributed amongst different providers and tenants, the building and operation of complex and value-added networked systems is enabled.

These networked systems are, however, subject to a large variety of security attacks, such as distributed denial-of-service, man-in-the-middle, web-injection and malicious software attacks, orchestrated in a more or less stealthy manner through the Internet. While they are gaining in sophistication and coordination (i.e. advanced persistent threats), these attacks may affect the fundamental security goals of confidentiality, integrity, availability and non-repudiation of resources. The accessibility, distribution, and increased complexity of networked systems make them particularly vulnerable targets. In that context, cybersecurity techniques offer new perspectives for protecting these networked systems, through the elaboration of intelligent and efficient management methods for detecting, analyzing and mitigating such attacks.

IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (IEEE TNSM) is a premier journal for timely publication of archival research on the management of networks, systems, services and applications. Following the success of the recent TNSM Special Issues on cybersecurity techniques for managing networked systems in 2020 and 2021, this Special Issue will focus on recent advances in network security management. We welcome submissions addressing the important challenges (see the non-exhaustive list of topics below) and presenting novel research or experimentation results. Survey papers that offer an insightful perspective on related work and identify key challenges for future research will be considered as well. We look forward to your submissions!

About the Special Issue

Topics of interest for this Special Issue, include, but are not limited to the following:

• Network and service management for security
• Security of network and service management
• Security management architecture, protocols and APIs
• Secure and resilient design and deployment of networked systems
• Monitoring and detection of threats and attacks
• Artificial intelligence, machine learning for cyber-security
• Analytics and big data for security management
• Modeling for security management
• Configuration and orchestration of security mechanisms
• Algorithms for security management
• Security automation, policy-based management
• NFV-based security functions and services
• Security of programmable components
• Chaining and orchestration of security functions
• Distributed security management
• Intrusion detection, tolerance, prevention, and response
• Resilience against large-scale distributed attacks
• Trust and identity management
• Verification and enforcement of security properties
• Vulnerability prevention and remediation
• Performance of security management
• Security of cloud applications and services
• Security of data-center infrastructures
• Security of 5G networks and services
• Security of smart environments
• Security of Internet of Things
• Security of SCADA, industrial and health networks
• Security of SDN- and NFV-based systems
• Network forensics, auditing and responses to incidents
• Privacy-preserving solutions for cybersecurity
• Detailed experience reports from experimental testbeds
• Security-related business, regulation, and legal aspects

Submission Format

Papers will be evaluated based on their originality, presentation, relevance and contribution to the field of security of software-defined virtualized systems, as well as their overall quality and suitability for the special issue. The submitted papers must be written in good English and describe original research which has not been published nor currently under review by other journals or conferences. Previously published conference papers should be clearly identified by the authors at the initial submission stage and an explanation should be provided of how such papers have been extended in order to be considered for this Special Issue.

Author guidelines for the preparation of manuscript (including number of pages and potential extra page costs) can be found on the IEEE TNSM   Submit a Manuscript  page.

For more information, please contact Remi Badonnel .

Submission Guidelines

All manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted through the IEEE Manuscript Central service . Authors must indicate in the submission cover letter that their manuscript is intended for the “Recent Advances in Network Security Management ” Special Issue.

Important Dates

Paper Submission Date: 30 October 2021 16 November 2021 (Extended Deadline) Notification of Acceptance: 15 February 2022 Publication Date*: 1 June 2022

(* online published version will be available in IEEE Xplore after the camera ready version has been submitted with final DOI)

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Sandra Scott-Hayward Queen's University Belfast, UK

Carol Fung Virginia Commonwealth University, United States

Qi Li Tsinghua University, China

Jie Zhang Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore

Cristian Hesselman SIDN, The Netherlands

Fulvio Valenza Politecnico di Torino, Italy

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MAY 12-15, 2025 AT THE HYATT REGENCY SAN FRANCISCO, SAN FRANCISCO, CA

46th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy

Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Security and Privacy in cooperation with the International Association for Cryptologic Research

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Call for Papers

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
• Human-centered security and privacy
• Intrusion detection and prevention
• Machine learning and computer security
• Malware and unwanted software
• Network security and measurement
• 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 for at-risk populations
• Software supply chain security
• Systems security
• User studies for security and privacy
• Web security and privacy
• 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 .

Submission Deadlines & Decisions

Similar to 2024, for each submission, one of the following decisions will be made:

Accept: Papers in this category will be accepted for publication in the proceedings and presentation at the conference. Within one month of acceptance, all accepted papers must submit a camera-ready copy incorporating reviewer feedback. The papers will immediately be published, open access, in the Computer Society’s Digital Library, and they may be cited as “To appear in the IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy, May 2025”. After the symposium, papers will be behind a paywall for one year before they are again made open access.

Reject: Papers in this category are declined for inclusion in the conference. Rejected papers must wait for one year, from the date of original submission, to resubmit to IEEE S&P. A paper will be judged to be a resubmit (as opposed to a new submission) if the paper is from the same or similar authors, and a reviewer could write a substantially similar summary of the paper compared with the original submission. As a rule of thumb, if there is more than 40% overlap between the original submission and the new paper, it will be considered a resubmission.

Public Meta-Reviews: Similar to 2024, all accepted papers will be published with a meta-review (< 500 words) in the final PDF that lists: (a) the reasons the PC decided to accept the paper and (b) concerns the PC has with the paper. Authors will be given the option to write a response to the meta-review (< 500 words) which will be published as part of the meta-review. Authors will be given a draft meta-review at the time of acceptance. Authors will be given the option of addressing some or all of the concerns within one review cycle. A shepherd will remove concerns from the meta-review if they are sufficiently addressed by the revisions. The goal of this process is to provide greater transparency and to better scope change requests made by reviewers. More information about the reasons behind this change can be found on the 2024 IEEE S&P website .

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.

Important Dates

All deadlines are 23:59:59 AoE (UTC-12).

First deadline

• Paper submission deadline: June 6, 2024
• Early-reject notification: July 22, 2024
• Rebuttal period (interactive): August 19 - August 30, 2024
• Rebuttal text due: August 26, 2024
• Acceptance notification: September 9, 2024
• Camera-ready deadline: October 18, 2024

Second deadline

• Paper submission deadline: November 14, 2024
• Early-reject notification: January 20, 2025
• Rebuttal period (interactive): February 17 - February 28, 2025
• Rebuttal text due: February 24, 2025
• Acceptance notification: March 10, 2025
• Camera-ready deadline: April 18, 2025

Rebuttal Period

Papers reaching the second round of reviewing will be given an opportunity to write a rebuttal to reviewer questions. The rebuttal period will be interactive, and is separate from the meta-review rebuttal given to accepted papers. Authors have the opportunity to exchange messages with the reviewers and respond to questions asked. To this end, we will use HotCRP’s anonymous communication feature to enable a communication channel between authors and reviewers. The authors should mainly focus on factual errors in the reviews and concrete questions posed by the reviewers. New research results can also be discussed if they help to clarify open questions. More instructions will be sent out to the authors at the beginning of the rebuttal period.

Resubmission of Rejected Papers

As with previous IEEE S&P symposia with multiple submission cycles, rejected papers must wait one year before resubmission to IEEE S&P. Given the move from three submission deadlines in 2024 to two submission deadlines in 2025, rejected papers are eligible to submit according to the table below.

Instructions for Paper Submission

These instructions apply to both the research papers and systematization of knowledge (SoK) papers. All submissions must be original work; the submitter must clearly document any overlap with previously published or simultaneously submitted papers from any of the authors. Failure to point out and explain overlap will be grounds for rejection. Simultaneous submission of the same paper to another venue with proceedings or a journal is not allowed and will be grounds for automatic rejection. Contact the program committee chairs if there are questions about this policy.

Anonymous Submission

Papers must be submitted in a form suitable for anonymous review: no author names or affiliations may appear on the title page, and papers should avoid revealing authors’ identity in the text. When referring to their previous work, authors are required to cite their papers in the third person, without identifying themselves. In the unusual case in which a third-person reference is infeasible, authors can blind the reference itself. Papers that are not properly anonymized may be rejected without review. PC members who have a genuine conflict of interest with a paper, including the PC Co-Chairs and the Associate Chairs, will be excluded from evaluation and discussion of that paper.

While a paper is under submission to the IEEE Security & Privacy Symposium, authors may choose to give talks about their work, post a preprint of the paper to an archival repository such as arXiv, and disclose security vulnerabilities to vendors. Authors should refrain from widely advertising their results, but in special circumstances they should contact the PC chairs to discuss exceptions. Authors are not allowed to directly contact PC members to discuss their submission.

The submissions will be treated confidentially by the PC chairs and the program committee members. Program committee members are not allowed to share the submitted papers with anyone, with the exception of qualified external reviewers approved by the program committee chairs. Please contact the PC chairs if you have any questions or concerns.

Conflicts of Interest

During submission of a research paper, the submission site will request information about conflicts of interest of the paper’s authors with program committee (PC) members. It is the full responsibility of all authors of a paper to identify all and only their potential conflict-of-interest PC members, according to the following definition. A paper author has a conflict of interest with a PC member when and only when one or more of the following conditions holds:

The PC member is a co-author of the paper.

• For student interns, the student is conflicted with their supervisors and with members of the same research group. If the student no longer works for the organization, then they are not conflicted with a PC member from the larger organization.
• The PC member has been a collaborator within the past two years.
• The PC member is or was the author’s primary thesis advisor, no matter how long ago.
• The author is or was the PC member’s primary thesis advisor, no matter how long ago.
• The PC member is a relative or close personal friend of the author.

For any other situation where the authors feel they have a conflict with a PC member, they must explain the nature of the conflict to the PC chairs, who will mark the conflict if appropriate. The program chairs will review declared conflicts. Papers with incorrect or incomplete conflict of interest information as of the submission closing time are subject to immediate rejection.

Research Ethics Committee

Similar to 2024, IEEE S&P 2025 has a research ethics committee (REC) that will check papers flagged by reviewers as potentially including ethically fraught research. The REC will review flagged papers and may suggest to the PC Chairs rejection of a paper on ethical grounds. The REC consists of members of the PC. Authors are encouraged to review the Menlo Report for general ethical guidelines for computer and information security research.

Ethical Considerations for Vulnerability Disclosure

Where research identifies a vulnerability (e.g., software vulnerabilities in a given program, design weaknesses in a hardware system, or any other kind of vulnerability in deployed systems), we expect that researchers act in a way that avoids gratuitous harm to affected users and, where possible, affirmatively protects those users. In nearly every case, disclosing the vulnerability to vendors of affected systems, and other stakeholders, will help protect users. It is the committee’s sense that a disclosure window of 45 days https://vuls.cert.org/confluence/display/Wiki/Vulnerability+Disclosure+Policy to 90 days https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/p/vulnerability-disclosure-faq.html ahead of publication is consistent with authors’ ethical obligations.

Longer disclosure windows (which may keep vulnerabilities from the public for extended periods of time) should only be considered in exceptional situations, e.g., if the affected parties have provided convincing evidence the vulnerabilities were previously unknown and the full rollout of mitigations requires additional time. The authors are encouraged to consult with the PC chairs in case of questions or concerns.

The version of the paper submitted for review must discuss in detail the steps the authors have taken or plan to take to address these vulnerabilities; but, consistent with the timelines above, the authors do not have to disclose vulnerabilities ahead of submission. If a paper raises significant ethical and/or legal concerns, it will be checked by the REC and it might be rejected based on these concerns. The PC chairs will be happy to consult with authors about how this policy applies to their submissions.

Note : Submitted papers should not include full CVE identifiers in order to preserve the anonymity of the submission.

Ethical Considerations for Human Subjects Research

Submissions that describe experiments that could be viewed as involving human subjects, that analyze data derived from human subjects (even anonymized data), or that otherwise may put humans at risk should:

• Disclose whether the research received an approval or waiver from each of the authors’ institutional ethics review boards (IRB) if applicable.
• Discuss steps taken to ensure that participants and others who might have been affected by an experiment were treated ethically and with respect.

If a submission deals with any kind of personal identifiable information (PII) or other kinds of sensitive data, the version of the paper submitted for review must discuss in detail the steps the authors have taken to mitigate harms to the persons identified. If a paper raises significant ethical and/or legal concerns, it will be checked by the REC and it might be rejected based on these concerns. The PC chairs will be happy to consult with authors about how this policy applies to their submissions.

Financial and Non-financial competing interests

In the interests of transparency and to help readers form their own judgements of potential bias, the IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy requires authors and PC members to declare any competing financial and/or non-financial interests in relation to the work described. Authors need to include a disclosure of relevant financial interests in the camera-ready versions of their papers. This includes not just the standard funding lines, but should also include disclosures of any financial interest related to the research described. For example, “Author X is on the Technical Advisory Board of the ByteCoin Foundation,” or “Professor Y is the CTO of DoubleDefense, which specializes in malware analysis.” More information regarding this policy is available here .

Page Limit and Formatting (Important Changes)

Submitted papers may include up to 13 pages of text and up to 5 pages for references and appendices, totaling no more than 18 pages. All text and figures past page 13 must be clearly marked as part of the appendix. The final camera-ready paper must be no more than 18 pages, although, at the PC chairs’ discretion, additional pages may be allowed. Reviewers are not required to read appendices.

Papers must be formatted for US letter (not A4) size paper. All submissions must use the IEEE “compsoc” conference proceedings template. LaTeX submissions using the IEEE templates must use IEEEtran.cls version 1.8b with options “conference,compsoc.” (That is, begin your LaTeX document with the line \documentclass[conference,compsoc]{IEEEtran}.). See the “IEEE Demo Template for Computer Society Conferences” Overleaf template for an example. We are not aware of an MS Word template that matches this style.

Papers that fail to use the “compsoc” template (including using the non-compsoc IEEE conference template), modify margins, font, or line spacing, or use egregious space scrunching are subject to rejection without review. Authors are responsible for verifying the paper format (e.g., compare with the above linked Overleaf template) . While HotCRP provides some automated checking, the checks are limited. Note that some LaTeX packages (e.g., \usepackage{usenix}) override the compsoc formatting and must be removed.

Conference Submission Server

Submissions must be in Portable Document Format (.pdf). Authors should pay special attention to unusual fonts, images, and figures that might create problems for reviewers.

Submission server : https://cycle1.sp2025.ieee-security.org/

Publication and Presentation

Authors are responsible for obtaining appropriate publication clearances. One of the authors of the accepted paper is expected to register and present the paper at the conference.

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Artificial Intelligence in CyberSecurity

Submission Deadline: 30 July 2019

IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of Artificial Intelligence in CyberSecurity.

Recent studies show that Artificial Intelligence (AI) has resulted in advances in many scientific and technological fields, i.e., AI-based medicine, AI-based transportation, and AI-based finance. It can be imagined that the era of AI will be coming to us soon. The Internet has become the largest man-made system in human history, which has a great impact on people’s daily life and work. Security is one of the most significant concerns in the development of a sustainable, resilient and prosperous Internet ecosystem. Cyber security faces many challenging issues, such as intrusion detection, privacy protection, proactive defense, anomalous behaviors, advanced threat detection and so on. What’s more, many threat variations emerge and spread continuously. Therefore, AI-assisted, self-adaptable approaches are expected to deal with these security issues. Joint consideration of the interweaving nature between AI and cyber security is a key factor for driving future secure Internet.

The use of AI in cybersecurity creates new frontiers for security research. Specifically, the AI analytic tools, i.e., reinforcement learning, big data, machine learning and game theory, make learning increasingly important for real-time analysis and decision making for quick reactions to security attacks. On the other hand, AI technology itself also brings some security issues that need to be solved. For example, data mining and machine learning create a wealth of privacy issues due to the abundance and accessibility of data. AI-based cyber security has a great impact on different industrial applications if applied in appropriate ways, such as self-driving security, secure vehicular networks, industrial control security, smart grid security, etc. This Special Section in IEEE Access will focus on AI technologies in cybersecurity and related issues. We also welcome research on AI-related theory analysis for security and privacy.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Reinforcement learning for cybersecurity
• Machine learning for proactive defense
• Big data analytics for security
• Big data anonymization
• Big data-based hacking incident forecasting
• Big data analytics for secure network management
• AI-based intrusion detection and prevention
• AI approaches to trust and reputation
• AI-based anomalous behavior detection
• AI-based privacy protection
• AI for self-driving security
• AI for IoT security
• AI for industrial control security
• AI for smart grid security
• AI for security in innovative networking
• AI security applications

We also highly recommend the submission of multimedia with each article as it significantly increases the visibility, downloads, and citations of articles.

Associate Editor:    Chi-Yuan Chen, National Ilan University, Taiwan

Guest Editors:

• Wei Quan, Beijing Jiaotong University, China
• Nan Cheng, University of Toronto, Canada
• Shui Yu, Deakin University, Australia
• Jong-Hyouk Lee, Sangmyung University, Republic of Korea
• Gregorio Martinez Perez, University of Murcia (UMU), Spain
• Hongke Zhang, Beijing Jiaotong University, China
• Shiuhpyng Shieh, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

Relevant IEEE Access Special Sections:

• Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Computing for Communications and Networks
• Smart Caching, Communications, Computing and Cybersecurity for Information-Centric Internet of Things
• Cyber-Physical Systems

IEEE Access Editor-in-Chief:   Prof. Derek Abbott, University of Adelaide

Paper submission: Contact Associate Editor and submit manuscript to: http://ieee.atyponrex.com/journal/ieee-access

For inquiries regarding this Special Section, please contact:  [email protected] .

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MAY 24-27, 2021

42nd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy

Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Security and Privacy in cooperation with the International Association for Cryptologic Research

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Conference Paper Abstracts due Friday November 4!

Only papers with an abstract submitted by the deadline will be reviewed.

Call For Papers

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.

Topics of interest include:

• Access control and authorization
• Application security
• Attacks and defenses
• Authentication
• Blockchains and distributed ledger security
• Censorship resistance
• Cloud security
• Cyber physical systems security
• Distributed systems security
• Economics of security and privacy
• Embedded systems security
• Hardware security
• Intrusion detection and prevention
• Malware and unwanted software
• Mobile and Web security and privacy
• Language-based security
• Machine learning and AI security
• Network and systems security
• Privacy technologies and mechanisms
• Protocol security
• Secure information flow
• Security and privacy for the Internet of Things
• Security and privacy metrics
• Security and privacy policies
• Security architectures
• Usable security and privacy
• Trustworthy computing
• Web security

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.

Quarterly Submissions

Based on the experience in the past two years, the reviewing process for IEEE S&P is changed to a quarterly submission model. Within 2.5 months of submission, author notifications of Accept/Revise/Reject decisions will be sent out. For each submission, one of the following decisions will be made:

Accept : Papers in this category will be accepted for publication in the proceedings and presentation at the conference, possibly after making minor changes with the oversight of a shepherd. Within one month of acceptance, all accepted papers must submit a camera-ready copy incorporating reviewer feedback. The papers will immediately be published, open access, in the Computer Society’s Digital Library, and they may be cited as “To appear in the IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy, May 2021”.

Revise : A limited number of papers will be invited to submit a revision; such papers will receive a specific set of expectations to be met by that revision. Authors can submit a revised paper to the next two quarterly submission deadlines after the notification. The authors should clearly explain in a well-marked appendix how the revisions address the comments of the reviewers. The revised paper will then be re-evaluated, and either accepted or rejected.

Reject : Papers in this category are declined for inclusion in the conference. Rejected papers must wait for one year, from the date of original submission, to resubmit to IEEE S&P. A paper will be judged to be a resubmit (as opposed to a new submission) if the paper is from the same or similar authors, and a reviewer could write a substantially similar summary of the paper compared with the original submission. As a rule of thumb, if there is more than 40% overlap between the original submission and the new paper, it will be considered a resubmission.

All papers accepted by February 21, 2021 will appear in the proceedings of the symposium in May 2021 and invited to present their work. These include papers that were submitted in December 2020 and were accepted without revision, or papers that were submitted by June 2020, got the Revise decision, and resubmitted the revised paper in December.

Important Dates

All deadlines are 23:59:59 AoE (UTC-12).

Spring Quarter Deadline

• Paper submission deadline: March 5, 2020
• Early-reject notification: April 17, 2020 April 21, 2020
• Acceptance notification: May 22, 2020
• Camera-ready deadline: July 1, 2020

Summer Quarter Deadline

• Paper submission deadline: June 4, 2020
• Early-reject notification: July 17, 2020
• Acceptance notification: August 21, 2020
• Camera-ready deadline: September 30, 2020

Fall Quarter Deadline

• Paper submission deadline: September 3, 2020
• Early-reject notification: October 16, 2020
• Acceptance notification: November 20, 2020
• Camera-ready deadline: December 29, 2020

Winter Quarter Deadline

• Paper submission deadline: December 3, 2020
• Early-reject notification: January 15, 2021
• Acceptance notification: February 19, 2021
• Camera-ready deadline: March 28, 2021

Revised Submissions

As described above, some number of papers will receive a Revise decision, rather than Accept or Reject. This decision will be accompanied by a detailed summary of the expectations for the revision, in addition to the standard reviewer comments. The authors may prepare a revision, which may include running additional experiments, improving the paper’s presentation, or other such improvements. Papers meeting the expectations will typically be accepted. Those that do not will be rejected. Only in exceptional circumstances will additional revisions be requested. Upon receiving a Revise decision, authors can choose to withdraw their paper or not submit a revision, but they will be asked to not submit the same or similar work again (following the same rules as for Rejected papers) for one year from the date of the original submission. Authors can submit a revised paper to the next two quarterly submission deadlines after the notification. Revisions must be accompanied by a summary of the changes that were made.

Submission Statistics

After finishing the first three cycles, a total of 77 papers were accepted (including revised papers from the previous year). In total, 643 papers were submitted, resulting in an acceptance rate of 12.0%.

Instructions for Paper Submission

These instructions apply to both the research papers and systematization of knowledge papers. All submissions must be original work; the submitter must clearly document any overlap with previously published or simultaneously submitted papers from any of the authors. Failure to point out and explain overlap will be grounds for rejection. Simultaneous submission of the same paper to another venue with proceedings or a journal is not allowed and will be grounds for automatic rejection. Contact the program committee chairs if there are questions about this policy.

Anonymous Submission

Papers must be submitted in a form suitable for anonymous review: no author names or affiliations may appear on the title page, and papers should avoid revealing authors’ identity in the text. When referring to their previous work, authors are required to cite their papers in third person, without identifying themselves. In the unusual case in which a third-person reference is infeasible, authors can blind the reference itself. Papers that are not properly anonymized may be rejected without review.

While a paper is under submission to the IEEE Security & Privacy Symposium, authors may choose to give talks about their work, post a preprint of the paper online, and disclose security vulnerabilities to vendors. Authors should refrain from widely advertising their results, but in special circumstances they should contact the PC chairs to discuss exceptions. Authors are not allowed to contact directly the program committee members to discuss their submission.

The submissions will be treated confidentially by the PC chairs and the program committee members. Program committee members are not allowed to share the submitted papers with anyone, with the exception of qualified external reviewers approved by the program committee chairs. Please contact the PC chairs if you have any questions or concerns.

Conflicts of Interest

Drawn from the acm sigmod 2015 cfp.

During submission of a research paper, the submission site will request information about conflicts of interest of the paper's authors with program committee (PC) members. It is the full responsibility of all authors of a paper to identify all and only their potential conflict-of-interest PC members, according to the following definition. A paper author has a conflict of interest with a PC member when and only when one or more of the following conditions holds:

• The PC member is a co-author of the paper.
• For student interns, the student is conflicted with their supervisors and with members of the same research group. If the student no longer works for the organization, then they are not conflicted with a PC member from the larger organization.
• The PC member has been a collaborator within the past two years.
• The PC member is or was the author's primary thesis advisor, no matter how long ago.
• The author is or was the PC member's primary thesis advisor, no matter how long ago.
• The PC member is a relative or close personal friend of the author.

For any other situation where the authors feel they have a conflict with a PC member, they must explain the nature of the conflict to the PC chairs, who will mark the conflict if appropriate. Papers with incorrect or incomplete conflict of interest information as of the submission closing time are subject to immediate rejection.

Financial and Non-financial competing interests NEW

In the interests of transparency and to help readers form their own judgements of potential bias, the IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy requires authors and PC members to declare any competing financial and/or non-financial interests in relation to the work described. Authors need to include a disclosure of relevant financial interests in the camera-ready versions of their papers. This includes not just the standard funding lines, but should also include disclosures of any financial interest related to the research described. For example, "Author X is on the Technical Advisory Board of the ByteCoin Foundation," or "Professor Y is the CTO of DoubleDefense, which specializes in malware analysis." More information regarding this policy is available here .

Ethical Considerations for Vulnerability Disclosure

Where research identifies a vulnerability (e.g., software vulnerabilities in a given program, design weaknesses in a hardware system, or any other kind of vulnerability in deployed systems), we expect that researchers act in a way that avoids gratuitous harm to affected users and, where possible, affirmatively protects those users. In nearly every case, disclosing the vulnerability to vendors of affected systems, and other stakeholders, will help protect users. It is the committee’s sense that a disclosure window of 45 days https://vuls.cert.org/confluence/display/Wiki/Vulnerability+Disclosure+Policy to 90 days https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/p/vulnerability-disclosure-faq.html ahead of publication is consistent with authors’ ethical obligations.

The version of the paper submitted for review must discuss in detail the steps the authors have taken or plan to take to address these vulnerabilities; but, consistent with the timelines above, the authors do not have to disclose vulnerabilities ahead of submission. If a paper raises significant ethical and/or legal concerns, it might be rejected based on these concerns. The PC chairs will be happy to consult with authors about how this policy applies to their submissions.

Ethical Considerations for Human Subjects Research

Submissions that describe experiments on human subjects, that analyze data derived from human subjects (even anonymized data), or that otherwise may put humans at risk should:

• Disclose whether the research received an approval or waiver from each of the authors' institutional ethics review boards (IRB) if applicable.
• Discuss steps taken to ensure that participants and others who might have been affected by an experiment were treated ethically and with respect.

If a submission deals with any kind of personal identifiable information (PII) or other kinds of sensitive data, the version of the paper submitted for review must discuss in detail the steps the authors have taken to mitigate harms to the persons identified. If a paper raises significant ethical and/or legal concerns, it might be rejected based on these concerns. The PC chairs will be happy to consult with authors about how this policy applies to their submissions.

Page Limit and Formatting

Submitted papers may include up to 13 pages of text and up to 5 pages for references and appendices, totaling no more than 18 pages. The same applies to camera-ready papers, although, at the PC chairs’ discretion, additional pages may be allowed for references and appendices. Reviewers are not required to read appendices.

Papers must be formatted for US letter (not A4) size paper. The text must be formatted in a two-column layout, with columns no more than 9.5 in. tall and 3.5 in. wide. The text must be in Times font, 10-point or larger, with 11-point or larger line spacing. Authors are encouraged to use the IEEE conference proceedings templates. LaTeX submissions should use IEEEtran.cls version 1.8b. All submissions will be automatically checked for conformance to these requirements. Failure to adhere to the page limit and formatting requirements are grounds for rejection without review.

Reviews from Prior Submissions

Drawn from the acm ccs 2020 cfp, new this year.

For papers that were previously submitted to, and rejected from, another conference, authors are required to submit a separate document containing the prior reviews along with a description of how those reviews were addressed in the current version of the paper. Authors are only required to include reviews from the last time the paper was submitted. Reviewers will be asked to complete their reviews before reading the provided supplementary material to avoid being biased in formulating their own opinions; once their reviews are complete, however, reviewers will be given the opportunity to provide additional comments based on the submission history of the paper. Authors who try to circumvent this rule (e.g., by changing the title of the paper without significantly changing the contents) may have their papers rejected without further consideration, at the discretion of the PC chairs.

Authors need to make sure that the prior reviews do not reveal the identity of the authors, the authors need to carefully remove all information that might violate the anonymous submission requirements.

Submissions must be in Portable Document Format (.pdf). Authors should pay special attention to unusual fonts, images, and figures that might create problems for reviewers.

Conference Submission Server

• Papers for the spring quarter cycle must be submitted at: https://oakland21-spring.syssec.rub.de/hotcrp/
• Papers for the summer quarter cycle must be submitted at: https://oakland21-summer.syssec.rub.de/hotcrp/
• Papers for the fall quarter cycle must be submitted at: https://oakland21-fall.syssec.rub.de/hotcrp/
• Papers for the winter quarter cycle must be submitted at: https://oakland21-winter.syssec.rub.de/hotcrp/

Publication and Presentation

Authors are responsible for obtaining appropriate publication clearances. One of the authors of the accepted paper is expected to present the paper at the conference.

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