IFIP TC11 Information Security & Privacy Conference (SEC)

Past conferences

SEC conferences are the flagship events of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Technical Committee 11 (TC11) on Information Security and Privacy Protection in Information Processing Systems. Proceedings from this conference series can be found through our publisher Springer under the International Conference on ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection series.

Please reach out if you have any information in relation to our historic events to help complete our records.

View our past conference series:
2025+ (40th+) | 2015-2024 (30th-39th) | 2005-2014 (20th-29th) | 1994-2004 (10th-19th) | 1983-1993 (1st-9th)

2004

19th Conference, Toulouse, France, 22-27 August 2004

Co-located events

    IFIP World Computer Congress (WCC 2004)
    WG11.1 10th Working Conference on Information Security Management (WISM)
    WG11.4 3rd Working Conference on Privacy and Anonymity in Networked and Distributed Systems (I-NetSec )
    WG11.7 Security and Control of Society Workshop
    WG11.8 Workshop on Information Security Education (WISE)

Proceedings

    "Security and Protection in Information Processing Systems"
    35 papers
    ISBN: 1-4020-8142-1

Editors

    Yves Deswarte, Frederic Cuppens, Sushil Jajodia, Lingyu Wang

Keynote Speakers

    Jean-Jacques Quisquater (KBA Award)
    Secure Sensors for Smarts Censors? -- Moore's low for Fahrenheit 1984?

2003

18th Conference, Athens, Greece, 26-28 May 2003

Co-located events

    WG11.1 Workshop on Information Security Management (WISM)
    WG11.2 Workshop on Small Systems Security (WSSS)
    WG11.4 Workshop on Privacy and Anonymity in Network & Distributed Systems (INETSEC)
    WG11.7 Workshop on Security and Control of IT in Society (SCITS)

Proceedings

    "Security and Privacy in the Age of Uncertainty"
    33 papers
    6 papers for WISM
    7 papers for WSSS
    3 papers for INETSEC
    2 papers for SCITS
    ISBN: 978-0-387-35691-4

Editors

    Dimitris Gritzalis, Sabrina de Capitani di Vimercati, Pierangela Samarati, Sokratis Katsikas

Keynote Speakers

    Roger Needham (KBA Award)
    At the closing ceremony of the IFIP SEC 2003 conference on 28 May in Athens, Greece it was announced that Professor Roger Needham was the 2003 recipient of IFIP TC-11's Kristian Beckman Award.
    Sadly, Roger Needham passed away on 1 March 2003. Well known from Cambridge University and Microsoft Research, he contributed broadly to computer science and security. A web page still exists with links to various resources including his published materials.
    T. Autret (Ernst & Young)
    The electronic citizen

2002

17th Conference, Cairo, Egypt, 07-09 May 2002

Proceedings

    "Security in the Information Society: Visions and Perspectives"
    45 papers
    ISBN: 978-0-387-35586-3

Editors

    M. Adeeb Ghonaimy, Mahmoud T. El-Hadidi, Heba K. Aslan

Keynote Speakers

    Professor William J Caelli (KBA Award)
    Trusted .or . Trustworthy : The Search for a New Paradigm for Computer and Network Security

2001

16th Conference, Paris, France, 11-13 June 2001

Proceedings

    "Trusted Information: the New Decade Challenge"
    32 papers
    ISBN: 978-0-7923-7389-6

Editors

    Michel Dupuy, Pierre Paradinas

Keynote Speakers

    Henri Serres

2000

15th Conference, Beijing, China, 22-24 August 2000

Co-located events

    IFIP World Computer Congress (WCC 2000)

Proceedings

    "Information Security for Global Information Infrastructures"
    50 papers (plus 2 invited papers)
    ISBN: 978-0-387-35515-3

Editors

    Sihan Qing, Jan H.P. Eloff

Keynote Speakers

    Xuejia Lai
    Public Key Infrastructure: managing the e-Business security
    Yiqun Lisa Yin
    On the Development of the Advanced Encryption Standard
    Prof. Dr Klaus Brunstein
    Requirements for Safety and Security Policies in Networked Organisations

1998

14th Conference, Vienna/Budapest, Austria/Hungary, 31 August - 04 September 1998

Co-located events

    IFIP World Computer Congress (WCC 1998)

Proceedings

    "Global IT security"
    64 papers (including a special session of three papers on 'Developing Steps in Hungarian IT Security')
    ISBN: ISBN: 3-85403-116-5

Editors

    György Papp, Reinhard Posch

Keynote Speakers

    Richard Sizer (KBA Award)
    Joseph N. Pato
    Securing the Extended Enterprise in an Electronic World
    Tim Moses
    Building the Global PKI
    Mark Rotenberg
    Privacy Protection and the Future of Electronic Commerce

1997

13th Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, 14-16 May 1997

Proceedings

    "Information Security in Research and Business"
    36 papers (plus one position paper)
    ISBN: ISBN: 978-0-387-35259-6

Editors

    Louise Yngström, Jan Carlsen

Invited Speakers

    Alan Stanley
    Information Security - Challenges for the Next Millenium
    Prof. Mads Bryde Andersen
    The Role of Government in Creating the IT Infrastructure: Builder or Bystander?
    Håkan Jansson
    A United Approach to the IT-Society. On Electronic Identify Cards and Infrastructures
    Willis H Ware
    Retrospectives and Emerging Insights on IT Security

1996

12th Conference, Samos Island, Greece, 21-24 May 1996

Proceedings

    "Information Systems Security: Facing the Information Society of the 21st Century"
    35 papers (plus three invited papers)
    ISBN: 978-1-5041-2919-0

Editors

    Sokratis K. Katsikas, Dimitris Gritzalis

Statistics

    Submissions: 102 Accepted: 35 (plus 9 posters) Ratio: 34.3%

Invited Speakers

    Dorothy Denning
    New Directions in Infosecurity
    H. Hosmer
    New security paradigms: Orthodoxy and Herecy
    S. von Solms
    Information Security on the Electronic Superhighway
    D. Herson
    Experiences from the European Commission's INFOSEC Programme
    S. Frangos
    Software quality assurance: The underlying framework for achieving secure and reliable software systems
    L. Yngstrom
    University education on IT security and privacy

1995

11th Conference, Cape Town, South Africa, 09-12 May 1995

Co-located events

    WG11.1 Workshop on Information Security Management (WISM)
    WG11.3 Workshop on Database Security
    WG11.5 Workshop on System Integrity
    WG11.8 Workshop on Information Security Education (WISE)

Proceedings

    "Information Security - the Next Decade"
    40 papers (plus five invited papers)
    ISBN: 978-0-387-34873-5

Editors

    Jan HP Eloff, Sebastiaan H. von Solms

Statistics

    Submissions: 90 Reviews/paper: 3+ Accepted: 40 Ratio: 44.4%

Invited Speakers

    Bill Murray
    Security should pay: it should not cost
    Donn Parker
    A new framework for information security to avoid information anarchy
    Sead Muftic
    Functional and operational security system for open distributed environments
    Lance Hoffman
    Encryption policy for the Global Information Infrastructure
    Kurt Bauknecht
    The escalating role of informatin security management
    Fred Cohen
    Viruses, corruption, denial, disruption and information assurance

1994

10th Conference, Curaçao, Dutch Carribbean, 23-27 May 1994

Proceedings

    51 papers
    The proceedings for the 1994 conference were scheduled to be published through North-Holland (later Elsevier) but never completed. We have a set of PDFs of all of the papers included in the 'delegate handout' and are adding them to this site on a dedicated page.

Invited Speakers

    Dr N Balausbramanian
    Computer Based Cryptanalysis: Man vs Machine Approach
    Ken van Wyk
    Estabishing a CERT: Computer Emergency Response Team
    Wayne Madsen
    Privacy Aspects of Data Travelling Along the New Highway
    Ross Paul
    Issues in Designing and implementing a Practical Enterprise Security Architecture
Special Appearance
    Winn Schwartau
    Information Warfare: Waging and Winning Conflict in Cyberspace