ESORICS is the annual European research event in Computer Security. The Symposium started in 1990 and has been held in several European countries, attracting a wide international audience from both the academic and industrial communities.

The Symposium will start on September 21, 2026 with an exciting technical program, including vetted papers, invited talks, and collocated workshops.

Submission Guidelines

ESORICS 2026 at Rome invites you to submit your previously unpublished
research work for peer review. We are looking for papers with
high-quality, original, and unpublished research contributions.

Previously unpublished research works of high quality are invited for
review. Submissions are not required to be anonymous.

All submissions must be written in English and uploaded as a single
PDF with 16 pages in length (using 10pt font), and 20 pages at most
including references and appendices. Papers should be intelligible
without appendices as TPC members are not required to read them.

Authors should consult Springer’s Instructions for Authors of
Proceedings and use either the LaTeX or the Word templates provided on
the authors’ page, for the preparation of their papers.
https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines

Authors are obliged to specify the Conflict of Interests at the time
of submission. Guidelines are available on the conference webiste.

Authors may submit up to a maximum of 6 papers for the Winter Cycle.

Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have
been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a
conference/workshop with proceedings.

Submission portal: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esorics2026

You can continue updating your submission until the deadline, i.e.,
January 09, 2026.

List of Topics

Submissions are solicited in the following areas relating to computer
security, including but not limited to:

- Access Control

- Anonymity and Censorship Resistance

- Artificial Intelligence for Security

- Audit and Accountability

- Cyber Attack (e.g., APTs, botnets, DDoS) prevention, detection,
  investigation, and response.

- Data and Computation Integrity

- Database Security

- Digital Content Protection

- Digital Forensics

- Disinformation, Fake News Detection

- Formal Methods for Security and Privacy

- Governance and Management

- Hardware Security

- Identity Management

- Information Flow Control

- Information Hiding

- Intrusion Detection

- Language-based Security

- Malware and Unwanted Software

- Network Security

- Phishing and Spam Prevention

- Privacy Technologies and Mechanisms

- Risk Analysis and Management

- Secure Electronic Voting

- Security Economics and Metrics

- Security and Privacy in Cloud / Fog Systems

- Security and Privacy of Systems based on Machine Learning and AI

- Security and Privacy in Crowdsourcing

- Security and Privacy in the IoT and Cyber-Physical Systems

- Security and Privacy in Location-based Services

- Security and Privacy for Mobile / Smartphone Platforms

- security and Privacy in Social Networks

- Security and Privacy in Wireless and Cellular Communications

- Security, Privacy, and Resilience for Large-Scale, Critical
  Infrastructures (e.g., Smart Grid, AirPorts, Ports)

- Security for Emerging Networks (e.g., Home Networks, IoT, Body-Area
  Networks, VANETs)

- Software Security

- Systems Security

- Trustworthy Computing

- Usable Security and Privacy

- Web Security

Committees

Program Committee

Available on the website.

Organizing committee

Available on the website.

Publication

The symposium proceedings of ESORICS-2026 will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (LNCS). 

Venue

Rome, Italy

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to Program Chairs (available on the website).