Call for Papers

The 40th edition of the Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy (DBSec 2026) will be held in Arlington, Virginia, USA, from July 28 to July 30, 2026. The conference brings together researchers, practitioners, and experts from academia, industry, and government to share their cutting-edge findings and insights in all theoretical and practical aspects of data protection, privacy, and applications security.

Topics of interest for DBSec 2026 include the following:

  • Access control
  • Authentication
  • Data for LLMs, GenAI, ML/DL: data curation, vector databases
  • Database security
  • Identity management
  • Methodologies for data and application security
  • Ownership, Privacy and licensing issues of data for AI training
  • Secure distributed systems
  • Security and privacy in IT outsourcing
  • Security and privacy in pervasive/ubiquitous computing
  • Security metrics
  • Trust management
  • Anonymity
  • Big data security
  • Data protection
  • Digital rights management
  • Intrusion detection
  • Network security
  • Privacy
  • Secure information integration
  • Security and privacy in location-based services
  • Security and privacy policies
  • Threats, vulnerabilities, and risk management
  • Web security
  • Applied cryptography in data security
  • Data and system integrity
  • Data provenance
  • Distributed and decentralised security
  • Knowledge discovery and privacy
  • Organisational and social aspects of security
  • Secure cloud computing
  • Security and privacy in crowdsourcing
  • Security and privacy in P2P scenarios and social networks
  • Security management and audit
  • Trust and reputation systems
  • Wireless and mobile security

Important dates

To be announced

  • First Cycle deadlines
    • Submission: Apr 1, 2025
    • Notification: May 22, 2025
    • Camera-ready: May 29, 2025