computer security conference

Ranking

Note:

• How to judge how good a conference is? In my opinion, here are several criterias:

• Acceptance ratio: definitely an important metric (maybe the easiest metric that can be quantified), but not the only metric
• Paper quality and impact: how many classic papers are from this conference? how much impact do papers from this conference have on the community? are they well cited and studied?
• Committee member quality: what's the quality of TPC members? are they noted researchers in this area? This is an important factor because they will affect the quality of submission (good papers will prefer to submit to the conference with noted researchers in the committee), and control the quality of accepted papers.
• Attendee/Paper number ratio: another quantified metric. This somehow reflects the influence of this conference on the community
• Location: a beautiful place has some attraction. In addition, many researchers (but not all) are not very willing to travel to other countries due to limited funding or time (or VISA problem...), so they just submit papers to local conferences. Thus, normally the conferences located in USA are better than in Europe, which is also better than in Asia.
• History: a conference with a long history may have a good tradition and reputation
• Industry connection: this somehow reflects the impact on the industry. Normally, conferences on more applied techniques will attract more industry partners (so have more money to improve the quality of conference)

• This ranking list is only in my opinion. It is not official, nor accurate, only for reference. Some good workshops are also included.
• For a general CS conference ranking list, please visit .

Rank 1	S&P(Oakland)	IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
		ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security
		International Cryptology Conference
		European Cryptology Conference
	Security	Usenix Security Symposium
		ISOC Network and Distributed System Security Symposium
Rank 2		European Symposium on Research in Computer Security
		International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection
		Annual Computer Security Applications Conference
		The International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks
	CSFW	IEEE Computer Security Foundations Workshop
		International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security
Rank 3
	TCC	Theory of Cryptography Conference
	SecureComm	IEEE Communications Society/CreateNet Internation Conference on Security and Privacy for Emerging Areas in Communication Networks
		ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security
		International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security
	NSPW	New Security Paradigms Workshop
	PKC	International Workshop on Public-Key Cryptography
	FC	Financial Cryptography
		ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
	ACISP	Australasia Conference on Information Security and Privacy
	ICICS	International Conference on Information and Communications Security
	ISC	Information Security Conference
		International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology
	FSE	Fast Software Encryption
	IH	Workshop on Information Hiding
	WSPEC	Workshop on Security and Privacy in E-commerce
	WiSe	ACM Workshop on Wireless Security
	SASN	ACM Workshop on Security of Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks
	WORM	ACM Workshop on Rapid Malcode
	DRM	ACM Workshop on Digital Rights Management
	SEC	IFIP International Information Security Conference
		ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies
		Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems
	CT-RSA	RSA Conference, Cryptographers' Track
	DIMVA	GI SIG SIDAR Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware and Vulnerability Assessment
		USENIX Workshop on Steps to Reducing Unwanted Traffic on the Internet
		USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Security
	others (not ranked)	ISPEC	Information Security Practice and Experience Conference

　

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Acceptance Ratio Statistic

Note:

• This could be the most complete (and accurate?) list of computer security conference statistic you can find on Internet. There are still some blanks in this list. If you have any reliable source of these information (or some other security conferences), please email me (guofei AT cc.gatech.edu). Thanks.
• You can see from the following statistic, security conferences are becoming harder and harder to get in in the recent five years! And I think this trend will possible continue in the near future.

　

Year	Rank 1				Rank 2				Rank 3
	IEEE S&P		USENIX Security		CSFW				SecureComm
2007			12.3% (23/187)
2006	9.2% (23/251, full paper) 12.7% (32/251)	14.8%(38/256)	12.3% (22/179)	13.4% (17/127)	24.5%(25/102)	20%(32/160)	17% (16/93)	30%(40/134)	25.4%(32/126)	17.7% (33/186) Start from 2006	15.1% (33/218)
2005	8.9% (17/192)	15.2% (38/250)	14.8% (22/149)	12.9% (16/124)	20.8% (20/96)	17.0% (27/159)	20.5% (17/83)	22.8% (45/197)	22.2% (32/144, full paper) 36.1% (52/144) Start from 2005		22.2% (35/158)
2004	10.2% (19/186)	13.9% (35/251)	12.0% (22/184)	16.3% (16/98)	? (20/?)	17.0% (27/159)	13.5% (16/118)	26.1% (35/134)			12.1% (36/297)
2003	14.5% (19/131)	13.8% (35/253)	16.4% (21/128)	20.5% (17/83)	? (17/?)	16.7% (19/114)	29.5% (13/44)				16.8% (32/191) Start from 2003
2002	22.1% (21/95)	17.6% (27/153)	16.9% (22/130)	19.0% (15/79)	27.4% (23/84)	19.3% (16/83)	25.0% (16/64)
2001	17.8% (19/107)	17.6% (27/153)	28.9% (24/83)	24.2% (16/66)	38.9% (21/54)	not held	21.8% (12/55)
2000	13.1% (18/137)	21.2% (28/132)		29.4% (15/51)	45.8% (22/48)	25.3% (19/75)	53.8% (14/26)
1999	24.6% (15/61)	19.3% (16/83)			40.4% (19/47)	not held	? (32/?)
1998	16.4% (19/116)	20.0% (17/85)		33.3% (15/45)		40.4% (23/57)	67.3% (35/52) Start from 1998
1997	18.2% (20/110)	26.6% (17/64)	not held			not held
1996	29.9% (20/67)	32.2% (19/59)				36.2% (21/58)
1995	27.8% (20/72)	not held				not held
1994	29.2% (19/65)	44.3% (31/70)	not held	Start from 1994		36.6% (26/71)
1993	24.3% (17/70)	45.0% (27/60)				not held
1992	23.6% (21/89)					? (24/?)
1991	30.4% (28/92)					not held
1990			Start from 1990?			? (?/?) Start from 1990
1989
1988					Start from 1988
1987
1986	27.5% (25/91)
1985	39.7% (25/63)							Start from 1985
1984	64.1% (25/39)
1983	67.6% (23/34)
1982	55.9% (19/34)
1981
1980	Start from 1980

Thanks the following people for some information: Mihai Christodorescu, Kevin Almeroth, ...and you.

Oakland：95分，全称IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy，每年都在Oakland召开。
之所以不简称S&P，是为了跟一个magazine----IEEE Security & Privacy区分开来。被认
为是计算机安全的最高会议，比ACM的CCS更受尊敬。该会自称接受一切与计算机安全的文
章，但我感觉其以应用型为主，对理论性的文章尤其crypto-flavor的文章非常排斥。

CCS：92分，ACM SIGSAC的年会。该会宣称只接受practical papers，然而事实上却是安全
方面最diversified的会议，从纯粹密码学的文章到非常应用性的文章都有。传统上该会议
的politics比较严重，但今年的program committee非常强大，有望使会议质量进一步提高
。

USENIX Security：91分。USENIX是systems research方面的重要组织，主办了systems方面的若干重要会议，如OSDI（操作系统的第二会议）等。USENIX Security Symposium则是systems security的著名会议，文章基本陷于hardcore systems类型。

NDSS：90分，很好的一个关于网络和分布式系统安全的会议，偏应用型。

ESORICS：88分，欧洲的计算机安全年会。跟CCS一样广泛的范围，包容性甚至更强。

CSFW：85分，一个小型的workshop，然而在安全方面有一定影响。算是为数不多的受到尊
敬的workshops之一。

ACSAC：82分？一个纯粹应用型的安全会议，纯粹到其文章大部分都很难算作传统意义上的
research papers。但其研究的问题都非常的实用和有趣。

SACMAT：82分？Access control方面的一个比较重要的会议。

SecureComm：今年刚刚办起来的网络安全会议。从其program commitee来看，起点很高。
但能有多大影响还要过一段时间才能知道。

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CRYPTO（95分），EUROCRYPT（94分），ASIACRYPT（90分）：IACR的三大年会，在“我知
道的几个理论会议”里已经写过。

TCC（87分）：一个新会议，focused on 密码学理论。起点很高，但能有多大影响还要过一段时间才能知道

ACNS（84分？）：密码学与网络安全结合的会议。历史很短，但接受率颇低（百分之十五
以下）。