he 40th edition of the Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy (DBSec 2026) will be held in Arlington, Virginia, USA, from July 28 to July 30, 2026. The conference brings together researchers, practitioners, and experts from academia, industry, and government to share their cutting-edge findings and insights in all theoretical and practical aspects of data protection, privacy, and applications security.

Topics of interest for DBSec 2026 include the following:

Access control
Authentication
Data for LLMs, GenAI, ML/DL: data curation, vector databases
Database security
Identity management
Methodologies for data and application security
Ownership, Privacy and licensing issues of data for AI training
Secure distributed systems
Security and privacy in IT outsourcing
Security and privacy in pervasive/ubiquitous computing
Security metrics
Trust management
Anonymity
Big data security
Data protection
Digital rights management
Intrusion detection
Network security
Privacy
Secure information integration
Security and privacy in location-based services
Security and privacy policies
Threats, vulnerabilities, and risk management
Web security
Applied cryptography in data security
Data and system integrity
Data provenance
Distributed and decentralised security
Knowledge discovery and privacy
Organisational and social aspects of security
Secure cloud computing
Security and privacy in crowdsourcing
Security and privacy in P2P scenarios and social networks
Security management and audit
Trust and reputation systems
Wireless and mobile security

Important dates:
First Cycle deadlines
Submission: Apr 1, 2026
Notification: May 22, 2026
Camera-ready: May 29, 2026