Topics of interest include:

• Access control and authorization
• Accountability
• Anonymity
• Application security
• Attacks and defenses
• Authentication
• Censorship resistance
• Cloud security
• Distributed systems security
• Economics of security and privacy
• Embedded systems security
• Forensics
• Hardware security
• Intrusion detection and prevention
• Malware and unwanted software
• Mobile and Web security and privacy
• Language-based security
• Network and systems security
• Privacy technologies and mechanisms
• Protocol security
• Secure information flow
• Security and privacy for the Internet of Things
• Security and privacy metrics
• Security and privacy policies
• Security architectures
• Usable security and privacy

This topic list is not meant to be exhaustive; S&P is interested in all aspects of computer security and privacy. Papers without a clear application to security or privacy, however, will be considered out of scope and may be rejected without full review.