ICISS 2025: Call for Papers

The 21st International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS 2025) will be held at IIT Indore from December 16 to 20, 2025. This conference brings together researchers, students, and industry professionals to share and discuss ideas in computer security.

Topics of Interest

ICISS welcomes submissions on a wide range of information security research topics, including, but not limited to:

• Access control and authentication
• Applied cryptography
• Audit and risk analysis
• Big data security and privacy
• Blockchain security
• Cloud security and privacy
• Critical infrastructure security
• Cyber-physical systems security
• Data and applications security
• Digital forensics
• Hardware security
• Human aspects of security and privacy
• Identity management
• Industry networks security
• Information security education
• Information security management
• Information technology misuse and the law
• IoT security
• Large Language Models security and privacy
• Managing information security functions
• Mobile and vehicular network security
• Network & distributed systems security
• Network traffic characterization and measurements
• Pervasive systems security
• Privacy protection and Privacy-by-design
• Privacy-enhancing technologies
• Quantum Security
• Security in AI/ML
• Security in next-generation networks
• Surveillance & Censorship
• Trust management

Submission Guidelines

The 21st ICISS solicits previously unpublished original research works in the form of research papers typeset in English, using the LNCS template.

• Submissions must be anonymous (double-blind peer review process will be followed).
• Submissions must be compiled as a single PDF file.
• Submissions should not exceed 20 pages, including the bibliography and well-marked appendices.
• SoK-type of submissions are also welcome; during submission, choose “Research Papers (SoK)” sub-track.
• Submissions can be done under 2 distinct tracks: regular research track and industry/demo track.
• Prepare your manuscript using this LaTeX template.

Key points for “Regular Papers” track:

• Double-blind review process (follow the submission guidelines).
• No author name/affiliation, 20-page long.
• TPC may recommend shortening some papers with incomplete results but are interesting (8-pages long).

This year, ICISS will also accept PoCs of security applications under a separate demo track and allow submission of artefacts.

Submission Portal: https://meteor.springer.com/ICISS2025 - Accepting Submissions

At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register for the conference at the full rate, and the paper must be presented by an author of that paper at the conference. Non-refundable registration fees must be paid prior to uploading the final correctly formatted, publication-ready version of the paper. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the Springer LNCS proceedings.

Important Dates

• Submission deadline: July 25, 2025 (AoE) NEW
• Announcement of Results: September 30, 2025
• Camera-Ready: October 15, 2025

Best Paper Award and Journal Invitation

Like previous editions, this year ICISS will also feature the Best Paper Award.

Out of the papers accepted for publication at ICISS 2025, a select few outstanding papers will be invited in their extended form to be published in the Indian Academy of Science's journal Sadhana. The program committee may ask some authors to shorten their paper to a short paper of 8 pages to be presented in a poster session, instead of a plenary session.

Proceedings

PROCEEDINGS OF ICISS 2025 WILL BE PUBLISHED BY SPRINGER LNCS.