The 26th edition of the Computer Security track
at the 42nd ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing
April 5-9, 2027, Gwangju, South Korea
The Symposium
For more than forty years the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing has been a primary gathering forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers, software engineers, and application developers from around the world. SAC 2027 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP https://www.acm.org/sigapp); its proceedings are published by ACM and are available in printed form and on the web through the ACM Digital Library https://www.acm.org/dl. More information about SIGAPP and past editions of SAC can be found at https://www.acm.org/sigapp
The Computer Security track (26th edition)
The Security Track reaches its 26th edition this year and is among the longest running and most established tracks in the Symposium. The track aims at bringing together researchers working on applied issues in computer and information security.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following. In all cases, a paper's main contribution must be to computer or information security.
- 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.)
- covert communication (steganography, covert channels, 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
| 2nd October 2026 | Submission of regular papers and SRC research abstracts |
| 13th November 2026 | Notification of Acceptance/Rejection |
| 4th December 2026 | Camera-Ready copies of accepted papers and SRC research abstracts |
| 11th December 2026 | Author registration due date |
| 5 - 9 April 2027 | SAC 2027 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 Scienze Politiche e Sociali, Università di Catania, Italy. - Sergio ESPOSITO
Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Università di Catania, Italy.
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 or other tracks of SAC 2027 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.
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 2027 proceedings. Some papers may only be accepted as poster papers, and will be published as extended 2-page abstracts in the proceedings. Longer posters (up to 3 pages maximum) will imply an additional charge.
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 the paper/poster to be included in the ACM digital library. No-show of registered papers and posters will result in excluding them from the ACM digital library.
Student research abstract competition
Graduate students are invited to submit research abstracts here (single author, maximum of 3 pages in ACM camera-ready format) following the instructions published at the SAC 2027 website. Submission of the same abstract to multiple tracks is not allowed.