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Welcome to the 28th Information Security Conference (ISC)

The Information Security Conference (ISC) is an annual international conference covering research in theory and applications of Information Security. ISC aims to attract high quality papers in all technical aspects of information security. This includes submissions from academia, industry, and government on traditional as well as emerging topics and new paradigms in these areas, with a clear connection to real-world problems, systems, or applications.

The 28th edition of ISC will be organized by Software Convergence Research Institute (소프트웨어융합연구원), National Center of Excellence in Software (SW중심대학사업단), and Convergence security core talent training business (융합보안대학원) at Sungkyunkwan University. The conference will be held in-person at the 600 Years Anniversary Hall, Sungkyunkwan University (Humanities & Social Sciences Campus). The proceedings of ISC 2025 will be published as a separate LNCS volume by Springer.

News

  • Best Paper Award: The Multi-User Security of GCM-SST and Further Enhancements [10/22/2025]
  • The registration deadline has been extended to October 17th. [10/10/2025]
  • Due to unexpected payment issues, we decided to offer a flat rate for the entire registration until October 13th. [10/01/2025]
  • We have released the registration guide. If you forget your password, please let us know (for8821@g.skku.edu). [9/23/2025]
  • Now the registration is fully open! [9/17/2025]
  • Payment with credit cards issued in South Korea is now available. We expect to begin accepting overseas-issued credit cards next week. [09/12/2025]
  • Registration is currently open via wire transfer. Credit card payment will be accepted beginning in mid-September. [08/26/2025]
  • Our registration opening has been postponed due to credit card payment processing issues. We apologize for the inconvenience and will update you as soon as possible. [08/20/2025]
  • The list of accepted papers is available here. [08/15/2025]
  • Mehdi Tibouchi (Distinguished Researcher at NTT Social Informatics Laboratories, Guest Associate Professor at Kyoto University) will be (one of) the keynote speakers! [07/28/2025]
  • Hyoungshick Kim (Professor at Sungkyunkwan University) will be (one of) the keynote speakers! [07/28/2025]
  • The deadline has been extended to June 11. [06/2025]
  • Call for Papers is out. [02/2025]
  • Website is up! [02/2025]

Previous Editions of ISC

The Information Security Conference (ISC) was first initiated as a workshop in Tatsunokuchi, Ishikawa, Japan in 1997 (ISW'97, LNCS 1369), and then continued in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (ISW'99, LNCS 1729), and Wollongong, Australia (ISW'00, LNCS 1975).

It then changed to the current conference format when it was held in Malaga, Spain in 2001 (ISC'01, LNCS 2200). Later conferences were held in Sao Paulo, Brazil (ISC'02, LNCS 2433), Bristol, UK (ISC'03, LNCS 2851), Palo Alto, CA, USA (ISC'04, LNCS 3225), Singapore (ISC'05, LNCS 3650), Samos Island, Greece (ISC'06, LNCS 4176), Valparaíso, Chile (ISC'07, LNCS 4779), Taipei, Taiwan (ISC'08, LNCS 5222), Pisa, Italy (ISC'09, LNCS 5735), Boca Raton, FL, USA (ISC'10, LNCS 6531), Xi’an, China (ISC'11, LNCS 7001), Passau, Germany (ISC'12, LNCS 7483), Dallas, TX, USA (ISC'13, LNCS 7807), Hong Kong, China (ISC'14, LNCS 8783), Trondheim, Norway (ISC'15, LNCS 9290), Honolulu, HI, USA (ISC'16, LNCS 9866), Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (ISC'17, LNCS 10599), Guildford, UK (ISC'18, LNCS 11060), New York, NY, USA (ISC'19, LNCS 11723), Online (ISC'20, LNCS 12472), Online (ISC'21, LNCS 13118) Hybrid (ISC'22, LNCS 13640), Groningen, Netherlands (ISC'23, LNCS 14411), Arlington, VA, USA (ISC'24, LNCS 15257,15258)

A list of past proceedings is available through Springer.

Further information about past ISC events is available through DBLP.

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