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.

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

2024

39th Conference, Edinburgh, UK, 12-14 June 2024

Proceedings

    "ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection"
    34 papers
    ISBN: 978-3-031-65175-5

Editors

    Nikolaos Pitropakis, Sokratis Katsikas, Steven Furnell, Konstantinos Markantonakis

Statistics

    Submissions: 112 Reviews/paper: 4.2 Accepted: 34 Ratio: 30.4% Attendees: 70

Keynote Speakers

    Prof. Basie Von Solms
    The Security Genie is out of the bottle – can we force it back?
    Prof. Costas Lambrinoudakis
    Exploring Evidentiary Data within OpenAI’s ChatGPT for Digital Forensics
    Siân John MBE
    Net Zero and AI / Cybersecurity. Considering the environmental challenge of analytics

2023

38th Conference, Poznan, Poland, 14-16 June 2023

Proceedings

    "ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection"
    26 papers
    ISBN: 978-3-031-56326-3

Editors

    Norbert Meyer, Anna Grocholewska-Czuryło

Statistics

    Submissions: 80 Reviews/paper: 2.6 Accepted: 27 Ratio: 33.8% Attendees: 65

Keynote Speakers

    Prof. Josef Pieprzyk
    Joint Compression and Encryption
    Prof. Sebastiano Battiato

2022

37th Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, 13-15 June 2022

Proceedings

    "ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection"
    29 papers
    ISBN: 978-3-031-06975-8

Editors

    Weizhi Meng, Simone Fischer-Hübner, Christian D. Jensen

Statistics

    Submissions: 127 Reviews/paper: 3.7 Accepted: 29 Ratio: 22.8% Attendees: 70

Keynote Speakers

    Prof. Carsten Schürmann
    Election Security. From Ballots to Trust
    Prof. Ross Anderson
    IoT Security Panel
    Prof. Ivan Damgård
    Multiparty Computation: what is it and why should you care?
    Prof. Lene Sørensen (WISE)
    The PRIVACY UNIVERSE – can this contribute to a better learning about online privacy?

2021

36th Conference, Oslo, Norway, 22-24 June 2021

Proceedings

    "ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection"
    28 papers
    ISBN: 978-3-030-78120-0

Editors

    Audun Jøsang, Lynn Futcher, Janne Hagen

Statistics

    Submissions: 112 Reviews/paper: 3+ Accepted: 28 Ratio: 25% Attendees: 132

Keynote Speakers

    Prof. Ross Anderson (KBA Award)
    Security Engineering

2020

35th Conference, Maribor, Slovenia, 21-23 September 2020

Proceedings

    "ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection"
    29 papers
    ISBN: 978-3-030-58201-2

Editors

    Marko Hölbl, Kai Rannenberg, Tatjana Welzer

Statistics

    Submissions: 149 Reviews/paper: 3.4 Accepted: 29 Ratio: 19.5% Attendees: 155

Keynote Speakers

    Prof. Elisa Bertino (KBA Award)
    Data Security and Privacy in IoT
    Stanka Šalamun and Mitja Kolšek
    How to Fix Vulnerability Fixing

2019

34th Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, 25-27 June 2019

Proceedings

    "ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection"
    26 papers
    ISBN: 978-3-030-22312-0

Editors

    Gurpreet Dhillon, Fredrik Karlsson, Karin Hedström, André Zúquete

Statistics

    Submissions: 142 Reviews/paper: 4 Accepted: 26 Ratio: 18.3% Attendees: 95

Keynote Speakers

    Prof. Ravi Sandhu (KBA Award)
    Access Control Evolution and Prospects
    Rob Arnold
    Compliance vs. Risk Management - Two Perspectives on Supply Chain Risk Management

2018

33rd Conference, Poznan, Poland, 18-20 September 2018

Proceedings

    "ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection"
    27 papers
    ISBN: 978-3-319-99828-2

Editors

    Lech Jan Janczewski, Miroslaw Kutylowski

Statistics

    Submissions: 89 Reviews/paper: 4 Accepted: 27 Ratio: 30.3% Attendees: 50+

Keynote Speakers

    Dr Jan Camenisch (KBA Award)
    The Pros and Cons of Blockchain for Privacy
    Krystian Matusiewicz
    Cryptographic failures: how and why they happen

2017

32nd Conference, Rome, Italy, 29-31 May 2017

Proceedings

    "ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection"
    38 papers
    ISBN: 978-3-319-58469-0

Editors

    Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Fabio Martinelli

Statistics

    Submissions: 196 Reviews/paper: 3.8 Accepted: 38 Ratio: 19.4% Attendees: 135

Keynote Speakers

    Prof. Gene Spafford (KBA Award)
    Reflections on the state of cyber security
    Prof. Jan Camenisch
    Cryptography for People
    Roberto Di Pietro
    Unleashing e-health potential: security and architectural issues

2016

31st Conference, Ghent, Belgium, 30 May-01 June 2016

Proceedings

    "ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection"
    27 papers
    ISBN: 978-3-319-33630-5

Editors

    Jaap-Henk Hoepman, Stefan Katzenbeisser

Statistics

    Submissions: 145 Reviews/paper: 4 Accepted: 27 Ratio: 18.6% Attendees: 83

Keynote Speakers

    Prof. Dr. Ir. Bart Preneel (KBA Award)
    The Post-Snowden Threat Landscape
    Herbert Bos
    Crazy Time - Exploiting Software Without Bugs
    Daniel Le Métayer
    The risk-based approach to privacy: prospects and challenges

2015

30th Conference, Hamburg, Germany, 26-28 May 2015

Proceedings

    "ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection"
    42 papers
    ISBN: 978-3-319-18467-8

Editors

    Hannes Federath, Dieter Gollmann

Statistics

    Submissions: 212 Reviews/paper: 4 Accepted: 42 Ratio: 19.8% Attendees: 142

Keynote Speakers

    Adrian Perrig
    The SCION Next-generation Secure Internet Architecture
    Miroslaw Kutylowski
    Advances in Privacy Aware Authentication