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About us

EICC 2026 aims at establishing a premium venue for the exchange of information and sharing of research findings on cybersecurity and its many aspects between academics and practitioners in Europe. EICC 2026 encourages the dialogue between computer scientists and researchers in all other fields related to cybersecurity, such as behavioral sciences, sociology, criminology, investigations and law. Interdisciplinary contributions are especially welcome.

Important Dates

Mon, Dec 15, 2025
Special session proposals
Wed, Jan 28, 2026
Submission deadline
Sun, Mar 1, 2026
Author notification
Sun, Apr 5, 2026
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Paper Submission

Research Paper Submission Tracks

Trust management
Mobile security
Network security
Cyber Warfare
Cloud security
Accessible and inclusive cybersecurity
Artificial Intelligence (AI) applied to cybersecurity
Artificial Intelligence (AI) trustworthiness
Big data and privacy
Business continuity and incident response
Child cybersecurity and privacy
Critical infrastructure security
Cyber forensics
Cyber insurance
Cyber leadership
Cyber-physical systems security
Cybersecurity and cyber resilience
Cybersecurity culture
Cybersecurity responsibilisation
Cybersecurity incident reporting
Digital currency, blockchains and cybercrime
Digital privacy
Embedded systems security
Healthcare information security and privacy
Human cybersecurity decision making
Information security governance
Internet of Things (IoT) privacy and security
Law, investigation, internet jurisdiction and ethics
Security management
Software development security
Surveillance, interception, blocking and sovereignty
Whistleblowing

Call for Papers Description

The following paper categories reporting on original research findings are welcome: Full papers (12-16+ pages), Short papers (6-11 pages). Papers submitted to EICC 2026 have to use the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science Proceedings Template.

Committee

Conference chair

Andreas Heinemann

Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences (Germany)

PC co-chairs

Karen Renaud

Strathclyde University (UK)

Steffen Wendzel

Ulm University (Germany)

Program committee

Habtamu Abie

Norwegian Computing Centre (Norway)

Marios Anagnostopoulos

Democritus University of Thrace (Greece)

Niyati Baliyan

National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra (India)

JoĂŁo Paulo Barraca

University of Aveiro (Portugal)

Simona Bernardi

Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain)

Luca Caviglione

CNR - IMATI (Italy)

Michał Choraś

Bydgoszcz University of Science and Technology (Poland)

Kovila Coopamootoo

King’s College London (UK)

Luca Davoli

University of Parma (Italy)

Changyu Dong

Newcastle University (UK)

Pavlos Efraimidis

Democritus University of Thrace (Greece)

Tobias Eggendorfer

TH Ingolstadt (Germany)

Sergio Esposito

UniversitĂ  degli Studi di Catania (Italy)

Virginia Franqueira

University of Kent (UK)

Damjan Fujs

University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)

Steven Furnell

University of Nottingham (UK)

Dieter Gollmann

Hamburg University of Technology (Germany)

Petra Grd

University of Zagreb (Croatia)

Nils Gruschka

University of Oslo (Norway)

Piroska Haller

Petru Maior University (Romania)

Marko Hölbl

University of Maribor (Slovenia)

Pedro Inácio

Universidade da Beira Interior (Portugal)

Martin Gilje Jaatun

University of Stavanger & SINTEF Digital (Norway)

Georgios Karopoulos

European Commission, Joint Research Centre (Italy)

Stefan Katzenbeisser

University of Passau (Germany)

Wenjuan Li

Education University of Hong Kong (China)

Shigang Liu

CSIRO's Data61 (Australia)

Brad Malin

Vanderbilt University (US)

David MegĂ­as

Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3) & Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Spain)

Weizhi Meng

Lancaster University (UK)

Pal-Stefan Murvay

Politehnica University of Timisoara (Romania)

Sebastian Pape

Social Engineering Academy GmbH (Germany)

Sergio Pastrana

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain)

Isabel Praça

GECAD / ISEP (Portugal)

Tobias Schmidbauer

Nuremberg Institute of Technology (Germany)

Bernardo Sequeiros

Universidade da Beira Interior (Portugal)

Anastasia Sergeeva

University of Luxembourg (Luxembourg)

Juraj Sikra

University Of Strathclyde (UK)

Gerardo Simari

Universidad Nacional del Sur & CONICET (Argentina)

Kai Simon

Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft (Germany)

Michael Sirivianos

Cyprus University of Technology (Cyprus)

Florian Skopik

Austrian Institute of Technology (Austria)

Hung-Min Sun

National Tsing Hua University (Taiwan)

Sotirios Terzis

University of Strathclyde (UK)

Igor Tomičić

University of Zagreb (Croatia)

Fernando Tricas

Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain)

Nicolas Tsapatsoulis

Cyprus University of Technology (Cyprus)

Christos Xenakis

University of Piraeus (Greece)

Nicola Zannone

Eindhoven University of Technology (Netherlands)

Sebastian Zillien

Ulm University (Germany)

Steering committee

Igor Bernik

University of Maribor (Slovenia)

Bela Genge

University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Sciences and Technology of Tg. Mures (Romania)

Joerg Keller

FernUniversitaet in Hagen (Germany)

BlaĹľ Markelj

University of Maribor (Slovenia)

Aleksandra Mileva

University Goce Delcev (North Macedonia)

Wojciech Mazurczyk

Warsaw University of Technology (Poland)

Simon Vrhovec

University of Maribor (Slovenia)