Call for Regular Papers

The 22nd ICISS will be held at the Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai between December 16 and 20, 2026. ICISS provides a forum for researchers and industry practitioners to present their previously unpublished research work.

Important Dates:
Submission deadline: July 10, 2026
Notification of acceptance: September 10, 2026
Camera-ready submission deadline: September 30, 2026

A broad but non-exhaustive list of areas of interest is as below:

• Systems Security
  • OS, VM, containers, cloud
  • Network: SDN, NFV, SD-WAN
  • IoT, RFID, SCADA systems
  • IDS, IPS,  Honeypot, Botnet
• Access control
  • Authentication, Authorization
  • PKI & Trust management
  • Zero Trust
• Application Security
  • Vulnerabilities, Malware
  • Ransomware, APTs, MITRE
  • Information flow control
  • Threat Modelling, Attack graphs
• Security in AI/ML
  • Adversarial learning/inputs
  • Prompt injection, RLHF strategies
  • Model stealing, Model poisoning
• Formal Methods for Security
  • Verification of Security Protocols
  • FM for AI/ML Models & Apps
• Hardware Security
  • Remote attestation, PUFs
  • Trojans, Backdoors, FPGA
  • TEE, TRNG, SGX
• Privacy
  • PETs, anonymization tech
  • De-identification attacks
  • Surveillance & Censorship
  • Inference, correlation attacks
• Blockchain
  • Cryptocurrency, stablecoins
  • Interoperability, scalability
  • Smart contracts, concurrency
  • DIDs, NFTs, CBDCs, AML
• Emerging Tech/Standards
  • ChatGPT, LaMDA, Dall-E 2, etc
  • Security-by-design, SBOM
  • STIX/TAXII
• Use Cases
  • e-voting, e-gov, smart cities
  • Healthcare, UPI payments

Submissions must be written in English and must not exceed 20 pages in length using LNCS format. Submissions must be in PDF format. A double-blinded peer review process will be followed. Submission link will be available in coming weeks.

At the time of submission, you will have to:

• declare potential conflict-of-interests with TPC members,
• declare IRB status along with responsible disclosures while dealing with vulnerabilities and user privacy
• declare use of Gen-AI in the work submitted for review.

The proceedings will appear in the Springer LNCS series. ICISS has a best paper award.  

ICISS also accepts submissions under Industry/Demo track demonstrating implementations/PoC in the area of systems security, and a separate track for PhD students presenting their early/WiP through lightning talks & poster. ICISS has generous funds supporting student to attend pre-conference school (tutorials, etc.) and the main conference.

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