Symposium Topics

Refereed paper submissions are solicited in all areas relating to systems research in security and privacy, including but not limited to:

  • Systems security
    • Mobile systems security
    • Web security
    • Cloud computing security
    • Distributed systems security
    • Operating systems security
    • Storage security
  • Cryptographic implementation analysis and construction, applied cryptography
  • Language-based security
  • Hardware security
    • Embedded systems security
    • Methods for detection of malicious or counterfeit hardware
    • Randomness
    • Secure computer architectures
    • Side channels
  • Network security
    • Intrusion and anomaly detection and prevention
    • Network infrastructure security
    • Denial-of-service attacks and countermeasures
    • Wireless network security
  • Privacy-enhancing technologies, anonymity
    • Research on surveillance and censorship
  • Human-computer interaction, security, and privacy
  • Social issues and security
    • Research on computer security law and policy
    • Ethics of computer security research
    • Research on security education and training
  • Security analysis
    • Malware analysis
    • Analysis of network and security protocols
    • Attacks with novel insights, techniques, or results
    • Forensics and diagnostics for security
    • Automated security analysis of hardware designs and implementation
    • Automated security analysis of source code and binaries, program analysis
  • Security measurement studies
    • Measurements of fraud, malware, spam
    • Measurements of human behavior and security
  • Others
    • Security in critical infrastructures
    • Security in electronic voting
    • Security in health care and medicine
    • Security in ubiquitous computing, sensors, actuators
    • Security in electronic commerce

This topic list is not meant to be exhaustive; USENIX Security is interested in all aspects of computing systems 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.

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