Digital intelligence is more and more utilized in everyday computing. As most of our personal and organizational information is stored and communicated digitally, security, privacy, and trust aspects relevant to the information and communication are crucial. The security, privacy, and trust requirements need to be specified, analyzed, implemented, verified, and monitored in all software systems where the quality of service depends on these requirements. The COMPSAC Symposium on Security, Privacy and Trust in Computing (SEPT) focuses on the security, privacy, and trust aspects of software technologies and applications. Following the theme of the COMPSAC main conference, the SEPT Symposium invites submissions of research papers and industrial experience reports on various software application systems where security, privacy, and trust are major concerns.
Key Symposium Dates
Symposium Paper submission:
Extended to 20 February 2026 31 January 2026
Symposium Paper Acceptance Notification:
12 April 2026
Camera Ready Paper submission:
21 May 2026
Symposium Chairs
Daisuke Kotani
Kyoto University
Dianxiang Xu
University of Missouri – Kansas City
Program Committee
Abdelhakim Baouya
University of Toulouse
Md Abdul Barek
University of West Florida
Lotfi Ben Othmane
University of North Texas
Gregory Blanc
Institut Polytechnique de Paris
Carlo Blundo
Università degli Studi di Salerno
Ahmed Bouabdallah
IMT Atlantique
Erzhuo Chen
Shanghai Normal University
Eun‑Sun Cho
Chungnam National University
Seokwoo Choi
NSR
Stelvio Cimato
Università degli Studi di Milano
Lin Deng
Towson University
Saad El Jaouhari
ISEP
Atilla Elçi
Hasan Kalyoncu University
Md Jobair Hossain Faruk
University of Central Arkansas
Manuela Flores
University of Molise
Barbara Gallina
MDU
Mordechai Guri
Ben‑Gurion University
Nur Imtiaz Haque
Northern Illinois University
A S M Touhidul Hasan
University of Missouri‑Kansas City
Ragib Hasan
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Hirokazu Hasegawa
Nagoya University
Masaki Hashimoto
Kagawa University
Md Morshedul Islam
Concordia University of Edmonton
Jafar Jafarian
UC Denver
Fumihiro Kanei
NTT Communications
Yo Kanemoto
NTT
Samer Khamaiseh
Miami University
Muhammad Umair Khan
AlFaisal University
Hiroki Kuzuno
Kobe University
Yu Luo
University of Central Missouri
Lara Mauri
University of Milan
Muhammad Rahman
Clayton State University
Md Bajlur Rashid
University of West Florida
Yasmeen Rawajfih
Tuskegee University
Aiasha Siddika
Kennesaw State University
Sharaban Tahora
Kennesaw State University
Samia Tasnim
University of Toledo
Yongzhi Wang
California State Polytechnic University Pomona
Frank Xu
University of Baltimore
Ching‑Nung Yang
National Dong Hwa University
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