19th Working Conference on Information Security Management

General Information

Co-located with the IFIP SEC conference in Perth, Australia

09-11 June 2026

Organised by IFIP TC-11 Working Group 11.1

With the security of information a significant concern of many organisations, information security management continues to be an important research topic. Advanced safeguards are required to protect the information assets of not only large but also small and distributed enterprises. Effective approaches to information security management, such as policies and certifications, are required, and must be supported by a range of technical and human-centric measures.

The 19^th Working Conference on Information Security Management, organized by IFIP TC-11 Working Group 11.1 (Information Security Management) and co-hosted with the 41st IFIP SEC conference, invites you to contribute to the next Working Conference by submitting a full paper; short paper (e.g. research in progress); or, proposal for panel discussions and tutorials. Contributions can either be of a practical, industry-focused nature or reports on academic activities.

We welcome submissions from academia, industry and government.  The Working Conference will offer a stream for research in progress short papers that may be particularly suitable for early career researchers and research students to allow research ideas to be explored and feedback obtained in a friendly environment.  There will be ample opportunity to engage in networking to build your contacts.

Call for Papers

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

Instructions to authors

Submitted papers must be written in English, be original, unpublished, and not submitted to another conference or journal for consideration.  Submissions should be anonymised.  PC members are not required to read the appendices, so the paper should be intelligible without them.

Each paper will receive at least two reviews. At least one author of each accepted paper must register by the registration date and present the paper at the conference.  Refer to our website for submission details.

Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings published in the IFIP AICT series by Springer.  Submissions should be at most 14 pages long including references and appendices for full papers, 8 pages for short papers.  Authors must follow the Springer LNCS formatting instructions. For camera-ready papers use Latex or Word format (Author instructions and templates can be found here: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines).

The following resource may assist with preparing your paper for submission:

Springer 'code of conduct' for authors
Springer instructions for paper preparation
Copyright assignment form (required on submission for review) - coming soon...

Submission

Submission link etc. will follow soon.

Important Dates

Committees

Co-chairs

Murray Jennex, West Texas A&M University, USA (Chair, WG11.1)

Ella Kolkowska, Örebro University, Sweden (Vice-Chair, WG11.1)

Paul Haskell-Dowland, Edith Cowan University, Australia (Secretary, WG 11.1)

International Program Committee

To be confirmed

Logistics

Please refer to the IFIP SEC 2026 website for further information.