Call for Papers

Important dates

• Paper Submission Deadline: February 3, 2026 (AoE)
• Notification to Authors: March 2, 2026
• Final Paper Due: March 27, 2026
• Workshop: April 27, 2026

About EuroSec

The 19^th European Workshop on Systems Security (EuroSec) aims to bring together researchers, practitioners, system administrators, system programmers, and others interested in the latest advances in the security of computer systems and networks. The objective of the workshop is to discuss novel, practical, systems-oriented work. The workshop will precede the EuroSys 2026 conference.

EuroSec encourages systems security researchers to share early iterations of bleeding-edge ideas with the community, before they are further developed into full papers. Reciprocally, authors receive feedback to help steer and improve their research to its full potential. Many EuroSec papers later form the basis for full conference papers presented at one of the top venues in computer security.

Topics of Interest

EuroSec seeks contributions on all aspects of systems security. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

• New attacks, evasion techniques, and defenses
• Operating system security
• Mobile systems security
• Malicious code analysis and detection
• Web security
• Network security
• Reverse engineering and binary analysis
• Virtual machines and hypervisors
• Measuring security
• Trusted computing and its applications
• System security aspects of privacy
• Identity management and anonymity
• Systems-based forensics
• Vulnerability discovery, analysis, and exploitation
• Embedded system security
• Cybercrime ecosystem and economics
• Security of critical infrastructures

In accordance with the spirit of EuroSys, we also seek:

• Quantified or insightful experience with existing systems
• Reproduction or refutation of previous results
• Negative results
• Early and promising ideas

Paper Submissions

You are invited to submit papers of up to 6 pages in double-column ACM format, excluding the bibliography. Submitted papers must use the latest ACM sigconf proceedings template. You should not modify key aspects of the template, such as font face, spacing, etc. The template, as well as instructions on how to use it, can be found here. All submission should be anonymized; papers that have not been properly anonymized may be rejected without review.

All submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee. Only original, novel work will be considered for publication. Accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings of EuroSec in the ACM Digital Library. One author of each accepted paper is required to attend the workshop and present the paper for it to be included in the proceedings.

Submissions should be made online at https://eurosec26.hotcrp.com.

Paper Selection and Dissemination

The procedures of paper submission, selection, and publication will be similar to the procedures followed in the past EuroSec workshops. We expect to announce the Call for Papers in December and January and have a paper submission deadline in February 2026, after the EuroSys notification deadline. We expect the Call for Papers (as well as Call for Participation later) to be widely publicized by the PC members and most importantly by the Publicity Chair appointed by the PC co-chairs.

Each of the submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by 3-4 members of the Program Committee. All the reviews and discussions will be supported by an online conference management system (HotCRP). Based on each paper's reviews and on the discussion among the PC members, a short list of about 8-10 accepted papers will be compiled. In addition to the presentation of the accepted technical papers, we expect to complement the Technical Program with one or two invited keynote talk(s) and/or panel. In case we organize a panel, we expect the panel to be forward-looking into a topic of interest to researchers in the field.

The Program Committee will be composed of well-known members of the systems and security community who have published their work in distinguished places such as SOSP, OSDI, EuroSys, ASPLOS, USENIX Security, IEEE S&P, CCS, NDSS, etc. We would like the papers to be published in the ACM Digital Library, as was done last year for EuroSec 2025.

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