Symposium Topics
Refereed paper submissions are solicited in all areas relating to systems research in security and privacy, including but not limited to:

System security
Operating systems security
Web security
Mobile systems security
Distributed systems security
Cloud computing security

Network security
Intrusion and anomaly detection and prevention
Network infrastructure security
Denial-of-service attacks and countermeasures
Wireless security

Cryptographic implementation analysis and construction

Applied cryptography

Security analysis
Malware analysis
Analysis of network and security protocols
Attacks with novel insights, techniques, or results
Forensics and diagnostics for security
Automated security analysis of hardware designs and implementation
Automated security analysis of source code and binaries
Program analysis

Security measurement studies
Measurements of fraud, malware, spam
Measurements of human behavior and security

Privacy-enhancing technologies and anonymity

Usable security and privacy

Language-based security

Hardware security
Secure computer architectures
Embedded systems security
Methods for detection of malicious or counterfeit hardware
Side channels

Research on surveillance and censorship

Social issues and security
Research on computer security law and policy
Ethics of computer security research
Research on security education and training

This topic list is not meant to be exhaustive; USENIX Security is interested in all aspects of computing systems 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.

Given the rapidly expanding and maturing security and privacy community, we hope to increase the acceptance rate of papers that are more "far-reaching" and "risky," as long as those papers also show sufficient promise for creating interesting discussions and questioning widely-held beliefs.