18^th International Conference on Network and Communications Security (NCS 2026)

July 16 ~ 17, 2026, London, United Kingdom

Scope & Topics

18^th International Conference on Network and Communications Security (NCS 2026) is a shift away from the traditional client-server model to systems based on the peer-to peer network, which allows users share resources effectively. Also, due to increase in number of Internet applications & users, the security issues and pivotal challenges include integrity verification, authentication, and access control etc., are also increasing. As a consequence, the subject of security protection in Network & Communication area has attracted intensive research activities in academia and industry. With the recent advances in Communication & network technology, the applications in commercial security scenario become increasing essential.

Authors are invited to contribute to this conference by submitting articles that illustrate research results, projects, surveying works and industrial experiences that describe significant advances in Information Technology, Control Systems and Automation.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following

• Access Control, Anonymity, Audit
  
• Applied Cryptography, Cryptanalysis, Digital Signatures
  
• Audit Reduction & Authentication
  
• Authorization
  
• Big Data Security, Privacy and Trust
  
• Biometric Security
  
• Blockchain
  
• Boundary Control Devices
  
• Certification and Accreditation
  
• Cross-Layer Design for Security
  
• Data and System Integrity, Database Security
  
• Defensive Information Warfare
  
• Denial of Service Protection, Intrusion Detection, Anti-Malware
  
• Distributed Systems Security
  
• Electronic Commerce
  
• E-mail Security, Spam, Phishing, E-mail Fraud, Virus, Worms, Trojon Protection
  
• Game and Software Engineering
  
• Grid Security
  
• Information Hiding and Watermarking
  
• Information Survivability
  
• Insider Threat Protection, Integrity
  
• Intellectual Property Protection
  
• Internet/Intranet Security
  
• Key Management and Key Recovery
  
• Language-Based Security
  
• Machine Learning based Security
  
• Mobile and Wireless Security
  
• Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Security
  
• Monitoring and Surveillance
  
• Multimedia Security, Operating System Security, Peer-to-Peer Security
  
• NLP for Security
  
• Performance Evaluations of Protocols & Security Application
  
• Privacy and Data Protection
  
• Product Evaluation Criteria and Compliance
  
• Risk Evaluation and Security Certification
  
• Risk/Vulnerability Assessment
  
• Security & Network Management
  
• Security and Information Hiding in Data Mining
  
• Security and Privacy for IoT
  
• Security Models & protocols
  
• Security Threats & Countermeasures (DDoS, MiM, Session Hijacking,Replay attack etc,)
  
• Trusted Computing
  
• Ubiquitous Computing Security
  

Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit papers through the conference Submission System by April 11, 2026. Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously or be under consideration for publication while being evaluated for this conference. The proceedings of the conference will be published by The proceedings of the conference will be published by Computer Science Conference Proceedings in Computer Science & Information Technology (CS & IT) series (Confirmed).

Selected papers from NCS 2026, after further revisions, will be published in the special issue of the following journals.

• International Journal of Computer Networks & Communications (IJCNC) - Scopus, ERA Indexed
  
• International Journal of Wireless & Mobile Networks (IJWMN) - ERA Indexed
  
• International Journal of Network Security & Its Applications (IJNSA) - ERA Indexed
  
• International Journal of Security, Privacy and Trust Management (IJSPTM)
  
• International Journal On Cryptography And Information Security (IJCIS)
  
• Information Technology in Industry (ITII)

Important Dates

Co - Located Event

• 13^th International Conference on Signal, Image Processing and Multimedia (SPM 2026)
  
• 18^th International Conference on Applications of Graph Theory in Wireless Ad hoc Networks and Sensor Networks (GRAPH-HOC 2026)
  
• 18^th International Conference on Networks & Communications (NeTCoM 2026)
  
• 18^th International Conference on Wireless & Mobile Networks (WiMoNe 2026)
  
• 8^th International Conference on Machine Learning & Applications (CMLA 2026)
  
• 7^th International Conference on Networks & Communications (DMSE 2026)
  
• 7^th International Conference on NLP & Big Data (NLPD 2026)
  
• 7^th International Conference on Advances in Artificial Intelligence Techniques (ArIT 2026)
  
• 8^th International Conference on Internet of Things (CIoT 2026)
  
• 13^th International Conference on Computer Science, Engineering and Information Technology (CSEIT 2026)

***** The invited talk proposals can be submitted to ncs@ncs2026.org