IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy — 2026
May 18-21, 2026
Hilton San Francisco Union SquareSan Francisco, United States
Cybersecurity Privacy
Important Dates
| Submission deadline | November 6, 2025 (closed) |
| Notification of acceptance | March 19, 2026 (passed) |
IEEE S&P is the premier annual forum for cutting edge research in computer security and privacy, held May 18-21 2026 at the Hilton San Francisco Union Square. Topics span applied cryptography, authentication, and access control, cloud, distributed, systems, hardware, and web security, machine learning security and privacy including attacks, verification, and confidentiality, privacy enhancing technologies, censorship, and anonymity, and the economics of security, human centered privacy, and abuse prevention, alongside Systematization of Knowledge papers. Established in 1980, the symposium runs a single highly selective track with double blind peer review and an emphasis on artifact evaluation.
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Venue
Hilton San Francisco Union Square
333 O'Farrell St, San Francisco, CA 94102
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Artwork Security and Provenance in the Age of AI
Develops technical defenses, measurement approaches, and policy solutions for protecting artwork authenticity and provenance against generative AI threats.
Assurance and Verification of AI Development
Brings together researchers to discuss technical approaches for enabling third parties to verify the safety and alignment of AI systems...
Technology and Consumer Protection
Explores computer science research with direct impact on consumers, with a focus on security and privacy risks in everyday technology....
Cyberbiosecurity
Addresses emerging security challenges at the intersection of cybersecurity and biological systems, as the bioeconomy grows increasingly dependent on digital...
Datasets for Software Security
Focused on creating, curating, and sharing datasets to support reproducible and rigorous empirical research in software security.
Language-theoretic Security
Explores treating all valid inputs as formal languages to achieve trustworthy input validation - arguing that principled parsing and language...
Critical Reflections in Security and Privacy Research
Examines research practices, peer review processes, and evaluation methods within the security and privacy field through critical meta-research.
Secure Agents for Generative AI
Examines security and privacy challenges unique to agentic AI systems that autonomously sequence tasks and call external tools, APIs, and...
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