计算机安全方面的顶级会议 （2010年1月31日更新）

Computer Security Conference Ranking and Statistic

Guofei Gu

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Ranking

Note:

• How to judge how good a conference is? In my opinion, here are several criteria:

• Acceptance ratio: definitely an important metric (maybe the easiest metric that can be quantified), but not the only metric
• Paper quality and impact: how many classic papers are from this conference? how much impact do papers from this conference have on the community? are they well cited and studied?
• Committee member quality: what's the quality of TPC members? are they noted researchers in this area? This is an important factor because they will affect the quality of submission (good papers will prefer to submit to the conference with noted researchers in the committee), and control the quality of accepted papers.
• Attendee/Paper number ratio: another quantified metric. This somehow reflects the influence of this conference on the community
• Location: a beautiful place has some attraction. In addition, many researchers (but not all) are not very willing to travel to other countries due to limited funding or time (or VISA problem...), so they just submit papers to local conferences. Thus, normally the conferences located in USA are better than in Europe, which is also better than in Asia.
• History: a conference with a long history may have a good tradition and reputation
• Industry connection: this somehow reflects the impact on the industry. Normally, conferences on more applied techniques will attract more industry partners (so have more money to improve the quality of conference)

• This ranking list is only in my opinion. It is not official, nor accurate, only for reference. Some good workshops are also included.
• I'm probably biased because I'm mainly a network/system security researcher. Notify me if you have different views, or you find significant conferences missing/bias. I'm more than happy to hear from you.
• Some conferences are arguably better belonging to rank 1.5 or 2.5. At this time, I'm not going to differentiate these. Let me know if you have some strong comments.
• Long time ago, I maintained a general computer science conference ranking (a mirror of my previous Georgia Tech page).

Rank 1	S&P (Oakland)	IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
	CCS	ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security
	Crypto	International Cryptology Conference
	Eurocrypt	European Cryptology Conference
	Security	Usenix Security Symposium
	NDSS	ISOC Network and Distributed System Security Symposium
Rank 2	ESORICS	European Symposium on Research in Computer Security
	RAID	International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection
	ACSAC	Annual Computer Security Applications Conference
	DSN	The International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks
	CSF (CSFW)	IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium. Supersedes CSFW (Computer Security Foundations Workshop)
	TCC	Theory of Cryptography Conference
	Asiacrypt	International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security
	IMC	Internet Measurement Conference
Rank 3	SecureComm	IEEE Communications Society/CreateNet Internation Conference on Security and Privacy for Emerging Areas in Communication Networks
	DIMVA	GI SIG SIDAR Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware and Vulnerability Assessment
	AsiaCCS	ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security
	ACNS	International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security
	FC	International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security
	SAC	ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
	ACISP	Australasia Conference on Information Security and Privacy
	ICICS	International Conference on Information and Communications Security
	ISC	Information Security Conference
	ICISC	International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology
	SACMAT	ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies
	CT-RSA	RSA Conference, Cryptographers' Track
	SEC	IFIP International Information Security Conference
	WiSec (WiSe, SASN)	ACM Conference on Wireless Network Security Supersedes WiSe (ACM Workshop on Wireless Security) and SASN (ACM Workshop on Security of Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks)
	SOUPS	Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security
	IFIP WG 11.9	IFIP WG 11.9 International Conference on Digital Forensics
	-- Workshops below --
	DFRWS	Digital Forensic Research Workshop
	FSE	Fast Software Encryption workshop
	PKC	International Workshop on Public-Key Cryptography
	NSPW	New Security Paradigms Workshop
	IH	Workshop on Information Hiding
	WSPEC	Workshop on Security and Privacy in E-commerce
	DRM	ACM Workshop on Digital Rights Management
	IWIA	IEEE International Information Assurance Workshop
	IAW	IEEE SMC Information Assurance Workshop "The West Point Workshop"
	CHES	Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems
	SRUTI	USENIX Workshop on Steps to Reducing Unwanted Traffic on the Internet
	HotSec	USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Security
	LEET (HotBots,WORM)	USENIX Workshop on Large-scale Exploits and Emergent Threats Supersedes HotBots (USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Understanding Botnets) and WORM (ACM Workshop on Recurring/Rapid Malcode)
Others (not ranked)	ISPEC	Information Security Practice and Experience Conference

　

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Acceptance Ratio Statistic

Note:

• This could be the most complete (and accurate?) list of computer security conference statistic you can find on Internet. There are still some blanks in this list. If you have any reliable source of these information (or some other security conferences), please email me (guofei AT cs.tamu.edu). Thanks.
• You can see from the following statistic, security conferences are becoming harder and harder to get in in the recent five years! And I think this trend will possible continue in the near future.

　

Year

Rank 1

Rank 2

Rank 3

Year

IEEE S&P

ACM CCS

USENIX Security

NDSS

CSF/CSFW

ESORICS

RAID

ACSAC

IMC

SecureComm

DIMVA

AsiaCCS

ACNS

SOUPS

DFRWS

2010

15.4%(24/156)

2010

2009

10% (26/253)

18.4%(58/315)

14.7%(26/176)

11.7% (20/171)

19.1%(42/220)

19.6%(44/224)

25.3% 19/75,full paper) 34.7%(26/75)

29.5%(13/44)

22.4% (33/147, regular) 27% (40/147)

21% (32/150)

2009

2008

11.2% (28/249)

18%(51/281)

15.9% (27/170)

17.8% (21/118)

18%(21/115)

22%(37/168)

25%(20/80)

24%(42/173)

33%(14/42)

17.6% (32/182,full) 22.5% (41/182)

22.9%(30/131)

28%(12/43)

39.5%(17/43)

2008

2007

8% (20/246,full paper) 12% (29/246)

18% (55/303)

12.3% (23/187)

14.4% (18/125)

25%(25/101)

23.8%(39/164)

18% (18/100)

22%(42/191)

26%(31/119)

24.6%(14/57)

18.3% (33/180,full paper) 29.4% (53/180)

12% (31/260)

31.7%(13/41)

47.2%(17/36)

2007

2006

9.2% (23/251, full paper) 12.7% (32/251)

14.8%(38/256)

12.3% (22/179)

13.4% (17/127)

24.5%(25/102)

20%(32/160)

17% (16/93)

30%(40/134)

21% (19/92, full paper track)

25.4%(32/126)

26.8%(11/41)

17.7% (33/186) Start from 2006

15.1% (33/218)

36%(14/39)

44.4%(16/36)

2006

2005

8.9% (17/192)

15.2% (38/250)

14.8% (22/149)

12.9% (16/124)

20.8% (20/96)

17.0% (27/159)

20.5% (17/83)

22.8% (45/197)

27% (22/82, full paper)

22.2% (32/144, full paper) 36.1% (52/144) Start from 2005

27%(14/51)

22.2% (35/158)

10/39

2005

2004

10.2% (19/186)

13.9% (35/251)

12.0% (22/184)

16.3% (16/98)

? (20/?)

17.0% (27/159)

13.5% (16/118)

26.1% (35/134)

19% (19/98,full paper)

34%(14/41) Start from 2004

12.1% (36/297)

2004

2003

14.5% (19/131)

13.8% (35/253)

16.4% (21/128)

20.5% (17/83)

? (17/?)

16.7% (19/114)

29.5% (13/44)

26% (19/73, full paper)

16.8% (32/191) Start from 2003

2003

2002

22.1% (21/95)

17.6% (27/153)

16.9% (22/130)

19.0% (15/79)

27.4% (23/84)

19.3% (16/83)

25.0% (16/64)

24% (15/62, full paper)

2002

2001

17.8% (19/107)

17.6% (27/153)

28.9% (24/83)

24.2% (16/66)

38.9% (21/54)

not held

21.8% (12/55)

26% (14/53), Start from 2001

2001

2000

13.1% (18/137)

21.2% (28/132)

29.4% (15/51)

45.8% (22/48)

25.3% (19/75)

53.8% (14/26)

2000

1999

24.6% (15/61)

19.3% (16/83)

40.4% (19/47)

not held

? (32/?)

1999

1998

16.4% (19/116)

20.0% (17/85)

33.3% (15/45)

40.4% (23/57)

67.3% (35/52) Start from 1998

1998

1997

18.2% (20/110)

26.6% (17/64)

not held

not held

1997

1996

29.9% (20/67)

32.2% (19/59)

36.2% (21/58)

1996

1995

27.8% (20/72)

not held

not held

1995

1994

29.2% (19/65)

44.3% (31/70)

not held

Start from 1994?

36.6% (26/71)

1994

1993

24.3% (17/70)

45.0% (27/60) Start from 1993

not held

1993

1992

23.6% (21/89)

? (24/?)

1992

1991

30.4% (28/92)

not held

1991

1990

Start from 1990?

? (?/?) Start from 1990

1990

1989

1989

1988

Start from 1988

1988

1987

1987

1986

27.5% (25/91)

1986

1985

39.7% (25/63)

Start from 1985

1985

1984

64.1% (25/39)

1984

1983

67.6% (23/34)

1983

1982

55.9% (19/34)

1982

1981

1981

1980

100% (19/19) Start from 1980

1980

  

Thanks the following people for information and suggestions/comments on the ranking and statistic: Mihai Christodorescu, Kevin Almeroth, Jianying Zhou, Zhiqiang Lin, Jonathan Katz, Vinod Yegneswaran, Thomas Zimmermann, Thorsten Holz, Paul A. Karger, Monirul Sharif, Ragib Hasan, Simson Garfinkel, Robin Sommer, Ton van Deursen, ... , and you.

 

 

 

 

Oakland：95分，全称IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy，每年都在Oakland召开。
之所以不简称S&P，是为了跟一个magazine----IEEE Security & Privacy区分开来。被认
为是计算机安全的最高会议，比ACM的CCS更受尊敬。该会自称接受一切与计算机安全的文
章，但我感觉其以应用型为主，对理论性的文章尤其crypto-flavor的文章非常排斥。

CCS：92分，ACM SIGSAC的年会。该会宣称只接受practical papers，然而事实上却是安全
方面最diversified的会议，从纯粹密码学的文章到非常应用性的文章都有。传统上该会议
的politics比较严重，但今年的program committee非常强大，有望使会议质量进一步提高
。

USENIX Security：91分。USENIX是systems research方面的重要组织，主办了systems方面的若干重要会议，如OSDI（操作系统的第二会议）等。USENIX Security Symposium则是systems security的著名会议，文章基本陷于hardcore systems类型。

NDSS：90分，很好的一个关于网络和分布式系统安全的会议，偏应用型。

ESORICS：88分，欧洲的计算机安全年会。跟CCS一样广泛的范围，包容性甚至更强。

CSFW：85分，一个小型的workshop，然而在安全方面有一定影响。算是为数不多的受到尊
敬的workshops之一。

ACSAC：82分？一个纯粹应用型的安全会议，纯粹到其文章大部分都很难算作传统意义上的
research papers。但其研究的问题都非常的实用和有趣。

SACMAT：82分？Access control方面的一个比较重要的会议。

SecureComm：今年刚刚办起来的网络安全会议。从其program commitee来看，起点很高。
但能有多大影响还要过一段时间才能知道。

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CRYPTO（95分），EUROCRYPT（94分），ASIACRYPT（90分）：IACR的三大年会，在“我知
道的几个理论会议”里已经写过。

TCC（87分）：一个新会议，focused on 密码学理论。起点很高，但能有多大影响还要过一段时间才能知道

ACNS（84分？）：密码学与网络安全结合的会议。历史很短，但接受率颇低（百分之十五
以下）。

 

  转自http://faculty.cs.tamu.edu/guofei/sec_conf_stat.htm