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.

From 2021, Computers & Security, published by Elsevier, is sponsoring the Best Paper Award at the IFIP SEC conference.  The annual award will carry a prize to the value of $1,000 and an extended version of the paper will be invited for publication in the journal. Computers & Security are proud to be able to support the IFIP SEC conference and for their continuing close collaboration with the IFIP Technical Committee 11: Security and Privacy Protection in Information Processing Systems.

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Submitted papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted to another conference or journal for consideration.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 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 in total 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 early 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 journal Computers & Security. Those papers will undergo at least one other review round.

The best student paper will receive the Yves Deswarte Best Student Paper Award. The paper must be original and carried out principally by the student presenting the paper, and the student must be the lead author. A student who is to be considered for the best paper award must be a full time (as determined by the student’s institution) registered undergraduate, graduate, or doctoral student at the time of submission of the paper. Further details can be found here.

Previous IFIP SEC proceedings are available at https://link.springer.com/conference/sec.

Further information and submission: http://sec2025.um.si/

Papers have to be submitted via Easychair conference system, which can be found at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ifipsec2025

List of Topics

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

Committees

Program Committee co-chairs

• Kai Rannenberg, Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
• Lili Nemec Zlatolas, University of Maribor, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Maribor, Slovenia

General chair

• Tatjana Welzer, University of Maribor, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Maribor, Slovenia

Organizing chair

• Marko Hölbl, University of Maribor, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Maribor, Slovenia

Venue

The conference will be held in Hotel City, Maribor, Slovenia

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to sec2025@um.si.