Important Dates
| Paper Submission Deadline | July 1, 2026 |
| Notification to authors | July 20, 2026 |
| Camera-ready versions | August 31, 2026 |
| Workshop date | September 18, 2026 |
Note: all deadlines are Anywhere On Earth (AOE) time
Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esorics2026
CFP
Large Language Models (LLMs) are widely used for their exceptional ability in performing natural language processing applications like question answering, text completion, and text translation, to name a few. These capabilities enable their use in several domains such as customer support and interaction, content creation, editing and proofreading, sentiment analysis, etc. Besides the natural language, LLMs can generate and manipulate sequences of tokens of any kind, acting as boxes into which human knowledge can be compressed and then extracted when necessary. Owing to this, LLMs can be used to solve a wide range of problems and have been increasingly incorporated into several software frameworks. Among the others, their adoption to advance in the field of cyber security is gaining momentum. As a matter of fact, LLMs have been employed to expose and remediate security flaws, generate secure code and test cases, detect vulnerable or malicious code, and verify the integrity, confidentiality, and reliability of data. Interesting results have been presented so far, but the research in this area is still in its early stages, and it has the potential to produce further significant findings.
This workshop aims to stimulate research on LLM-based solutions for security and privacy. We invite both academic and industrial researchers to submit research papers as either original works, or discussion papers.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Secure code generation
- Test case generation
- Vulnerable code detection
- Malicious code detection
- Vulnerable code fixing
- Software deobfuscation and repairing
- Anomaly-based detection
- Signature-based detection
- Network security
- Computer forensics
- Spam detection
- Phishing detection and prevention
- Vulnerability discovery
- Malware identification and analysis
- Data anonymization/de-anonymization
- Big data analytics for security
- Data integrity
- Data confidentiality
- Data reliability
- Data traceability
- Zero-day attack detection
- Automated security policy generation
- Predictive analytics
- Decision support
- Local/lightweight vs. global models
- Practical applications, use-cases, lessons-learnt
Submission guidelines
Authors are invited to submit original papers that have not been published elsewhere and are not currently under consideration for another journal, conference, or workshop.
The PC Chairs strongly advise authors to pay careful attention to the following four points:
- use the official LNCS template
- do not modify the original margins of the template;
- do not move substantial sections of the paper to the appendix; the paper must be self-contained within the 16-page limit;
- strictly respect the page limits.
Submitted papers must comply with the LNCS template at the time of submission. Submitted papers should be at most 16 pages (using 10-point font), excluding the bibliography and well-marked appendices, and at most 20 pages total. Committee members are not required to read the appendices, so the paper should be intelligible without them. All submissions must be written in English.
Submissions must be uploaded to the following EasyChair website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esorics2026
Only PDF files will be accepted. Submissions are not anonymous. The review process is single-blind, meaning that reviewers remain anonymous, while authors and their affiliations are disclosed. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits.
Authors of accepted papers must agree with Springer LNCS copyright and are requested to ensure that their papers are presented at the conference, and to complete a full registration for conference attendance.
Accepted papers will be included in the workshops proceedings (separately from ESORICS Main Conference Proceedings), published by Springer LNCS.
At least one author of each accepted paper must complete the registration and present the paper at the workshop in person for it to be included in the proceedings and program. Registration link and fees can be found at https://sites.google.com/di.uniroma1.it/esorics2026/attend/registration?authuser=0