Computer Security Conference Ranking and Statistic 计算机安全会议排名和统计
Computer Security Conference Ranking and Statistic
Guofei Gu
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)
- Combining the first few criteria mentioned above, Dr. Jianying Zhou proposed a more quantitative metric (Conference Impact Factor, CIF). Please check out his page here.
- 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)
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IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy |
| CCS | ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security | |
| Crypto | International Cryptology Conference | |
| Eurocrypt | European Cryptology Conference | |
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Security
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Usenix Security Symposium | |
| NDSS | ISOC Network and Distributed System Security Symposium | |
| Rank 2
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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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| Others (not ranked) | ISPEC | Information Security Practice and Experience Conference |
Acceptance Ratio Statistic
Note:
- This could be the most complete (and accurate?) list of computer security conference statistics 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 | ||
| 2011 | 11%(34/306) | 17%(35/204) | 20%(28/139) | 16%(35/217,regular) 27.6%(60/217) |
2011 | |||||||||||
| 2010 | 11.6% (31/267) | 17.2%(55/320) | 14.9%(30/202) | 15.4%(24/156) | 20.8%(42/201) | 23%(24/104) | 17%(39/227) | 22%(47/211, both short and full) | 25%(28/112) | 34%(12/35) | 15% (25/166) | 18%(32/178) | 25%(16/64) | 2010 | ||
| 2009 | 10% (26/253) | 18.4%(58/315) | 14.7%(26/176) | 11.7% (20/171) | 23.6%(22/93) | 19.1%(42/220) | 28.8%(17/59) | 19.6%(44/224) | 22.4%(41/183, both short and full) | 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) | 17.3%(32/185,both short and full) | 21%(26/124) | 33%(14/42) | 17.6% (32/182,regular) 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) | 24.4%(21/86, full paper) | 26%(31/119) | 24.6%(14/57) | 18.3% (33/180,regular) 29.4% (53/180, including short paper) |
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)
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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)
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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
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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)
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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)
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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: Kevin Almeroth, Marco Balduzzi, Jihyuk Choi, Nicolas Christin, Mihai Christodorescu, Ton van Deursen, David Evans, Simson Garfinkel, Payas Gupta, Ragib Hasan, Thorsten Holz, Paul A. Karger, Jonathan Katz, Zhiqiang Lin, Abedelaziz Mohaisen, Lukasz Olejnik, Monirul Sharif, Robin Sommer, Vinod Yegneswaran, Jianying Zhou, Thomas Zimmermann, ... and you.
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