EdgeSP 2026: The Ninth ACM/IEEE Workshop on Security and Privacy in Edge Computing

The workshop will be co-located with ACM/IEEE SEC 2026, which will take place in Santa Clara, CA, USA, on October 13-16, 2026.

All papers presented at the workshop will be included in the IEEE Digital Library.


Call for Papers

As the technologies of edge computing continue to advance, new security and privacy challenges and opportunities emerge, leading to the flourishing research on and fast development of various security solutions. The aim of this workshop is to provide a platform for researchers and practitioners to present advances in security and privacy enhancing technologies in the emerging field of edge computing.

We invite authors to submit previously unpublished papers offering novel research contributions addressing security and privacy issues in edge computing. Papers reporting on initial results as well as papers discussing mature research projects or case studies of deployed systems are sought out. Submissions describing big ideas that may have significant impact and could lead to interesting discussions at the workshop are encouraged.


Topics of Interest

  • Anonymity
  • Attacks and defenses
  • Authentication
  • Side-channel attacks and defenses for edge computing
  • Intrusion detection and prevention
  • Key management for edge computing
  • Mobile and web security and privacy
  • IoT security and privacy on edge computing
  • Network and systems security
  • Privacy technologies and mechanisms
  • Protocol security
  • Secure information flow
  • Security and privacy metrics
  • Security and privacy policies
  • Security architectures
  • Security in content delivery
  • Usable security and privacy

Submission Guidelines

  • Submitted papers must be neither previously published nor under review by another workshop, conference, or journal.
  • Only electronic submissions in PDF will be accepted.
  • Submitted papers must be written in English and must be rendered without error using standard PDF viewing tools.
  • Submitted papers must be no longer than 6 single-spaced 8.5" x 11" pages, including figures and tables, but excluding references, and using 10-point type on 12-point leading, two-column format, Times Roman or a similar font, within a text block 7.14" wide x 9.22" deep.
  • Papers not meeting these criteria will be rejected without review.
  • Pages should be numbered, and figures and tables should be legible in black and white without requiring magnification.
  • At least one author for each accepted paper must register for the workshop.
  • IEEE templates: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html
  • Submission website: TBD

Important Dates

Submission deadline: June 25, 2026

Acceptance notification: August 15, 2026

Camera-ready deadline: August 22, 2026

Workshop date: October 16, 2026


Workshop Organizers

Organizing Chairs

Leah Ding, American University, USA

Kewei Sha, University of North Texas, USA


Program Committee

TBD