The Computer Security track (19th edition)

The Security Track reaches its 19th edition this year, thus appearing among the most established tracks in the Symposium. Its acceptance rate has become more and more selective. The list of issues remains vast, ranging from protocols to work-flows.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• software security (protocols, operating systems, etc.)
• hardware security (smartcards, biometric technologies, etc.)
• mobile security (properties for/from mobile agents, etc.)
• network security (anti-DoS tools, firewalls, real-time monitoring, mobile networks, sensor networks, etc.)
• alternatives to cryptography (steganography, etc.)
• security-specific software development practices (vulnerability testing, fault-injection resilience, etc.)
• privacy and anonymity (trust management, pseudonymity, identity management, electronic voting, etc.)
• safety and dependability issues (reliability, survivability, etc.)
• cyberlaw and cybercrime (copyrights, trademarks, defamation, intellectual property, etc.)
• security management and usability issues (security configuration, policy management, usability trials etc.)
• workflow and service security (business processes, web services, etc.)
• security in cloud computing and virtualised environments
• blockchain applications and security analysis of existing cryptocurrencies
• security and privacy in the IoT

Best Papers

• Best papers of SEC@SAC03 in special issue of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (Wiley), 16(1), 2004
• Best papers of SEC@SAC04 in special issue of the Journal of Computer Security (IOS), 13(5), 2005
• Best papers of SEC@SAC06 in special issue of the Journal of Computer Security (IOS), 17(3), 2009
• Best papers of SEC@SAC13 in special issue of the International Journal of Information Security (Springer), 14(2), 2015

This practice will be continued on the basis of appropriateness of the submissions.

Track Program Chairs

• Giampaolo BELLA
  Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Università di Catania, Italy.
• Rosario GIUSTOLISI
  IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Program Committee (growing)

• Aslan Askarov (Aarhus University, Denmark)
• Tom Chothia (University of Birmingham, UK)
• Jannik Dreier (Université de Lorraine, France)
• Paul Duplys (Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany)
• Barbara Fila (INSA Rennes, IRISA, France)
• Simone Fischer-Hübner (Karlstad University, Sweden)
• Christian Gehrmann (Lund University, Sweden)
• Christian Hammer (Potsdam University, Germany)
• Lucca Hirschi (Inria & LORIA, France)
• Martin Johns (SAP Research, Germany)
• Erisa Karafili (Imperial College, UK)
• Sokratis Katsikas (Norwegian University of Science & Technology, Norway)
• Robert Künnemann (CISPA, Germany)
• Ilaria Matteucci (CNR, Italy)
• Chris Novakovic (University of Birmingham, UK)
• David Nowak (CNRS & Lille 1 University, France)
• Elizabeth Quaglia (Royal Holloway, UK)
• Alejandro Russo (Chalmers, Sweden)
• René Rydhof Hansen (Aalborg University, Denmark)
• Sebastian Schinzel (Muenster University of Applied Sciences, Germany)
• Helen Treharne (University of Surrey, UK)
• Melanie Volkamer (KIT, Germany)
• Ruoyu Wang (Arizona State University, USA)

Submission Guidelines

The submission guidelines must be strictly followed for a paper to be considered.

Original papers from the above mentioned or other related areas will be considered. Only full papers about original and unpublished research are sought. Parallel submission to other peer-reviewed venues, non-peer-reviewed (e.g. arXiv) venues, or other tracks of SAC 2020 is forbidden. Each paper must be BLIND in the sense that it must only include its title but not mention anything about its authors. Self-citation must be in third person, such as "Smith et al. [citation] showed...". All submissions must be formatted using the ACM conference-specific LaTeX style, which can be obtained from the symposium web page. The standard extension of a submission in the stated format is 8 pages. Longer papers (up to 10 pages maximum) will imply an additional charge. All papers must be submitted by the deadline stated above.

There is a symposium-wide paper management system for SAC 2020, which authors must use to submit their papers.

Review and publication of accepted papers

Each paper will be fully refereed and undergo a blind review process by at least three referees. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM SAC 2020 proceedings. Some papers may only be accepted as poster papers, and will be published as extended 2-page abstracts in the proceedings.

Important Notice - SAC No-Show Policy

Paper registration is required, allowing the inclusion of the papers and posters in the conference proceedings. An author or a proxy attending SAC MUST present the paper. This is a requirement for all accepted papers, posters, and invited SRC submissions to be included in the ACM digital library. No-show of scheduled papers, posters, and student research abstracts will result in excluding them from the ACM digital library.

Student research abstract competition

Graduate students are invited to submit research abstracts here (minimum of 2-page and maximum of 4-page) following the instructions published at SAC 2020 website. Submission of the same abstract to multiple tracks is not allowed.