SEC@SAC
The Security Track at the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

SEC@SAC21
The 20th edition of the Computer Security track
at the 36th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
March 22 - March 26, 2021, Gwangju, Korea

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Symposium 

For over thirty years has the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing been a primary gathering forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers, software engineers, and application developers from around the world. SAC 2021 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP http://www.acm.org/sigapp); its proceedings are published by ACM in both printed form and CD-ROM; they are also available on the web through the ACM Digital Library http://www.acm.org/dl. More information about SIGAPP and past editions of SAC can be found at http://www.acm.org/sigapp

The Computer Security track (20th edition)

The Security Track reaches its 20th 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
  • adversarial machine learning

Important Dates

28th September 2020, 11:59 pm UTC+0.00 Submission of regular papers and SRC research abstracts
(extended from 15th September 2020)
10th November 2020 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection
25h November 2020 Camera-Ready copies of accepted papers and SRC research abstracts
9th Dicember 2020 Author registration due
22nd March -26th March 2021 SAC 2021 takes place

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.

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 2021 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 2021 website. Submission of the same abstract to multiple tracks is not allowed.