Symposium Overview
The USENIX Security Symposium brings together researchers, practitioners, system administrators, system programmers, and others interested in the latest advances in the security and privacy of computer systems and networks. The 23rd USENIX Security Symposium will be held August 20-22, 2014, in San Diego, CA.

All researchers are encouraged to submit papers covering novel and scientifically significant practical works in computer security. Submissions are due on February 27, 2014. The Symposium will span three days, with a technical program including refereed papers, invited talks, posters, panel discussions, and Birds-of-a-Feather sessions. Workshops will precede the Symposium on August 18 and 19.

Refereed paper submissions are solicited in all areas relating to systems research in security and privacy, including but not limited to:

Cloud computing security
Cryptographic implementation analysis and construction, applied cryptography
Distributed systems security
Forensics and diagnostics for security
Hardware security
Embedded systems security
Methods for detection of malicious or counterfeit hardware
Randomness
Secure computer architectures
Side channels
Human-computer interaction, security, and privacy
Intrusion and anomaly detection and prevention
Malware
Detection, mitigation
Malicious code analysis, anti-virus, anti-spyware
Mobile system security
Network security
Botnets
Denial-of-service attacks and countermeasures
Network infrastructure security
Operating system security
Privacy-enhancing technologies, anonymity
Programming language security
Public good
Research on computer security law and policy
Research on security education and training
Research on social values, surveillance, and censorship
Security analysis
Analysis of network and security protocols
Attacks with novel insights, techniques, or results
Security applications
Security in critical infrastructures
Security in electronic voting
Security in health care and medicine
Security in ubiquitous computing, sensors, actuators
Security economics, electronic commerce
Security measurement studies
Large-scale measurement of fraud, malware, spam
Large-scale measurement of human behavior and security
Security tools
Automated security analysis of hardware designs and implementation
Automated security analysis of source code and binaries, program analysis
Novel tools to improve the trustworthiness of computer systems
Storage security
Database security and privacy
File systems
Web security
Wireless security

This topic list is not meant to be exhaustive; USENIX Security is interested in all aspects of computing systems security and privacy. Papers without a clear application to security or privacy, however, will be considered out of scope and may be rejected without full review.

The program chair is not permitted to be author or co-author of any paper submissions.