IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy — 2026

IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy (IEEE S&P) 2026 — Who Should Attend or Submit

Overview:
IEEE S&P, held May 18–21 2026 at the Hilton San Francisco Union Square, is the premier annual forum for cutting edge research in computer security and privacy, bringing together leading researchers and practitioners.

Who Should Submit Papers?

• Academic researchers and PhD students contributing novel work in areas such as
  • Applied cryptography, authentication, access control
  • Cloud, distributed, systems, hardware, and web security
  • Machine learning related security and privacy including attacks, verification, and confidentiality
  • Privacy enhancing technologies, censorship, anonymity
  • Economics of security, human centered privacy, and abuse prevention
• Authors of Survey and Systematization of Knowledge papers offering new perspectives, taxonomies, or challenges to established beliefs beyond standard literature reviews

Who Should Attend?

• Practitioners and industry professionals seeking the latest theoretical and empirical breakthroughs in security and privacy
• Academic and corporate leaders interested in engaging directly with the research community
• Attendees looking for cross disciplinary exposure, since IEEE S&P covers both foundational and applied aspects of the field
• Researchers engaged in reproducibility, as the conference emphasizes artifact evaluation and functional, accessible results

Why It Matters:

• A single track and highly selective program means concentrated sessions with high impact
• Double blind peer review ensures fairness and rigor
• Established since 1980, the symposium has shaped and defined the direction of modern security and privacy research

Bottom Line:
If you are advancing the state of the art in security or privacy through new research, systematization of knowledge, or reproducible artifacts, IEEE S&P 2026 is the place to submit and attend.

  For more information, visit the conference website