Call For Practitioner Papers
Cybersecurity, at its core, is a very practical field of study. SecDev honors that by asking practitioners to share brief submissions regarding their practical experiences in secure development. Submissions should provide practitioner perspectives and deeper insights into challenges relevant to building, deploying, and maintaining secure systems, and highlight opportunities where constructive security research can promote real-world impact.
(SecDev also seeks posters and tool demos. Information on these solicitations is available on the SecDev website.)
Areas of Interest
From Research to Practice
- Real-world cybersecurity challenges, best practices, case studies, or lessons learned
- Defensive and offensive security approaches to building secure systems
- Success stories from applying secure development practices
- Attacks and countermeasures
Security-Focused System Designs
- AppSec, enterprise security, network security, cloud security
- Securing cyber-physical systems
- Platform, hardware, and embedded systems security
- Securing distributed systems and Internet of Things (IoT)
- Security Frameworks or Architectures
- DevSecOps, SDL, or other secure development processes
- Security engineering processes from requirements to survivability
- Automation of programming, deployment, and maintenance tasks for security
- Risk management, supply chain security
- Programming languages, development tools, and ecosystems enabling security
Security Assurance
- Tools and methodologies for secure development
- Dynamic analysis and runtime approaches (e.g., fuzzing)
- Static code analysis for software and hardware (HDL) security
- Formal verification and other high-assurance methods
- Code reviews, red teams, pentesting, and other human-centered assurance activities
Security for Us
- Privacy by design
- Human-centered design for systems security
Submission Details
Submission site: TBA
Practitioner submissions may be at most two pages, using the two-column proceedings style.
Submissions will be lightly reviewed and should not be anonymized.
We strongly encourage practitioners from industry and government to submit and share their security experiences, insights, and challenges.
Authors of accepted submissions will be invited to give a short talk during the Practitioners’ Sessions. Submissions will appear in the conference proceedings.
We are devoted to seeking broad representation in the program and may take this into account when reviewing multiple submissions from the same authors.
Important Dates (SecDev 2026)
- Paper submission deadline: TBD
- Author notification: TBD
- Camera-ready: TBD
- Conference: TBD