83 ranked venues

Best Security and Privacy Conferences

Security publishing is unusually concentrated: the "big four" — IEEE S&P, USENIX Security, CCS and NDSS — carry most of the field's reputational weight, all at A* and all with acceptance rates below 20%. USENIX Security and CCS run multiple submission cycles per year, which changes the calculus on timing.

Below them, ESORICS, ACSAC, RAID and PETS are the strongest second-tier options, with PETS the default for privacy-specific work. Applied cryptography sits partly in this list and partly under theory.

A* tier

6 venues

Rank	Acronym	Conference	Papers	Acceptance
A*	CCS	ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security	6,366	19.1% (2023)
A*	CRYPTO	Advances in Cryptology	2,632
A*	EuroCrypt	International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptographic Techniques	2,276
A*	NDSS	Usenix Network and Distributed System Security Symposium	1,798	19.6% (2024)
A*	SP	IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy	3,184	17.8% (2024)
A*	USENIX-Security	Usenix Security Symposium		17.6% (2024)

A tier

11 venues

Rank	Acronym	Conference	Papers
A	ACSAC	Annual Computer Security Applications Conference	1,856
A	AsiaCCS	Asia Conference on Information, Computer and Communications Security	686
A	ASIACRYPT	International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security	1,848
A	CHES	Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems	618
A	CSF	IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium (was CSFW)
A	ESORICS	European Symposium On Research In Computer Security	2,282
A	EuroS&P	IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy
A	FC	Financial Cryptography and Data Security Conference	1,370
A	PETS	Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (was International Workshop of Privacy Enhancing Technologies)
A	RAID	The International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (was International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection)	760
A	SOUPS	Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security	613

B tier

16 venues

Rank	Acronym	Conference	Papers
B	ACM_WiSec	ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks
B	ACNS	International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security	1,157
B	AFT	Advances in Financial Technologies	172
B	ARES	International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security	34
B	CANS	International Conference on Cryptology and Network Security	557
B	CT-RSA	Cryptographers Track at RSA Conference
B	DBSEC	IFIP WG 11.3 Working Conference on Data and Applications Security (also known as DBSEC)	948
B	DIMVA	GI International Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware, and Vulnerability Assessment	390
B	IFIP SEC	IFIP Information Security & Privacy Conference
B	IJCB	International Joint Conference on Biometrics
B	NSS	International Conference on network and System Security	779
B	PKC	International Conference on Practice and Theory in Public Key Cryptography	1,065
B	SAFECOMP	International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability and Security	1,478
B	TCC	Theory of Cryptography Conference	1,061
B	TrustBus	International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Digital Business	352
B	TrustCom	International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications	3,873

C tier

34 venues

Rank	Acronym	Conference	Papers
C	ATC	International Conference on Advanced and Trusted Computing (was International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing)	228
C	CARDIS	Smart Card Research and Advanced Application Conference	373
C	CRiSIS	International Conference on Risks and Security of Internet and Systems	373
C	CRITIS	International Workshop on Critical Information Infrastructures Security	443
C	DASC	International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing	1,935
C	FDTC	Workshop on Fault Diagnosis and Tolerance in Cryptography	217
C	ICBC	IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency	105
C	ICICS	International Conference on Information and Communications Security	1,113
C	ICIMP	International Conference on Internet Monitoring and Protection
C	ICISSP	International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy	1,104
C	IEEE CICS	IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Cyber Security
C	IH&MMSec	Information Hiding and Multimedia Security Workshop
C	IMACC	IMA International Conference on Cryptography and Coding
C	IoTBDS	International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security
C	ISI	IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics	1,354
C	ISITA	International Symposium on Information Theory and Its Applications	1,075
C	ISPEC	Information Security Practice and Experience Conference	644
C	IWDW	International Workshop on Digital Watermarking	705
C	NSPW	New Security Paradigms Workshop	421
C	Pairing	International Conference on Pairing-based Cryptography	123
C	PQCrypto	International Workshop on Post-Quantum Cryptography	349
C	PRDC	Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing	1,000
C	ProvSec	International Conference on Provable Security	450
C	PSD	Privacy in Statistical Databases	286
C	PST	Annual Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust	914
C	SACMAT	ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (previously ACM Workshop on Role-Based Access Control, RBAC, changed in 2000)	646
C	SAFEProcess	IFAC Symposium on Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety of Technical Processes	61
C	SECRYPT	International Conference on Information Security and Cryptography	1,360
C	SecureComm	International Conference on Security and Privacy for Communication Networks	1,115
C	SETA	International Conference on Sequences and their Applications	252
C	SIN	International Conference on Security of Information and Networks	730
C	SSS	Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems	720
C	VizSec	International Workshop on Visualization for Cyber Security	235
C	WISTP	Workshop in Information Security Theory and Practices	232

National

National tier

13 venues

Rank	Acronym	Conference	Papers
National	ACCT	International Workshop on Algebraic and Combinatorial Coding Theory	31
National	CERIAS	Information Security Symposium
National	CISIS	Computational Intelligence in Security for Information Systems	1,845
National	COMSNETS	International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS	2,280
National	ICISC	International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology	735
National	ICISS	International Conference on Information Systems Security	531
National	INDOCRYPT	International Conference on Cryptology in India	724
National	Inscrypt	SKLOIS Conference on Information Security and Cryptology
National	IWSEC	International Workshop on Security	395
National	Redundancy	International Symposium 'Problems of Redundancy in Information and Control Systems'	82
National	SCN	Conference on Security and Cryptography for Networks	357
National	USEC	Usable Security and Privacy
National	WISA	International Workshop on Information Security Applications	627

Australasian

Australasian tier

2 venues

Rank	Acronym	Conference	Papers	Acceptance
Australasian	ACISP	Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy	1,225
Australasian	AISC	Australasian Information Security Conference	344

Unranked

Unranked tier

1 venues

Rank	Acronym	Conference	Papers	Acceptance
Unranked	EDCC	European Dependable Computing Conference	637