Sec Papers
A collection of accepted lists, abstracts, awards and submission deadlines of top tier papers, all in one site.
- 17,461
- papers
- 11
- venues
- 1994–2026
- years covered
Every cell was actually counted
- Big Four security
- Software engineering
- Systems
- Not held / not indexed
Darker means more papers accepted that year. Blank means the venue did not run, or is not yet indexed.
| Publication | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IEEE S&P | 55 | 55 | 60 | 63 | 84 | 104 | 115 | 147 | 195 | 261 | 255 | 260 |
| ACM CCS | 127 | 137 | 151 | 134 | 149 | 121 | 222 | 218 | 234 | 418 | 316 | |
| USENIX Sec | 76 | 83 | 90 | 110 | 124 | 159 | 247 | 256 | 422 | 417 | 454 | 378 |
| NDSS | 73 | 61 | 68 | 71 | 89 | 88 | 90 | 85 | 94 | 140 | 211 | 265 |
| ICSE | 215 | 101 | 68 | 153 | 109 | 129 | 138 | 197 | 210 | 237 | 245 | 322 |
| ASE | 100 | 100 | 117 | 111 | 154 | 158 | 165 | 116 | 208 | 266 | 389 | |
| FSE | 124 | 74 | 124 | 124 | 150 | 169 | 188 | 186 | 205 | 121 | 135 | 211 |
| ISSTA | 44 | 41 | 55 | 37 | 49 | 55 | 59 | 72 | 138 | 170 | 107 | 210 |
| ASPLOS | 50 | 56 | 57 | 57 | 76 | 88 | 75 | 80 | 153 | 198 | 179 | 152 |
| SOSP◂01–13 | 30 | 39 | 38 | 54 | 43 | 43 | 66 | 62 | ||||
| OSDI◂94–14 | 47 | 47 | 69 | 34 | 52 | 56 | 53 | 53 | 136 |
17,461 papers total · each group normalized separately (Big Four peak 454, SE peak 389, Systems peak 198)
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Go to search →- NDSS 2026ADGFUZZ: Assignment Dependency-Guided Fuzzing for Robotic Vehicles
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- NDSS 2026BSFuzzer: Context-Aware Semantic Fuzzing for BLE Logic Flaw Detection
A decade of growth, in one line
Acceptance counts by venue, by year, by group. All venues together went from 894 papers in 2015 to 2,410 in 2025 — whether that means easier or harder is for you to read off the chart.
See trends →Read the abstract before opening IEEE
Browse by venue and year with abstracts expanded inline. Your saved keywords get marked up automatically, so one glance tells you whether it is worth the click.
Read abstracts →Security cameras are widely deployed in safetycritical environments, supporting real-time video streaming and device control via protocols such as RTSP, ONVIF, and HTTP. Vulnerabilities in these systems can…
The next deadline, and days remaining
Full cycles for the Big Four: abstract registration, paper submission, rebuttal, notification, camera-ready. Countdowns computed in your local timezone.
See the timeline →Who took Best Paper this year
Best paper, outstanding paper and distinguished paper awards across the Big Four, grouped by year and by award. A quick read on where the field is heading.
See award winners →A few things built along the way
Curated external resources: venue rankings, CCF tiers, review process notes.
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The Python code that crawls, parses and LLM-classifies the data is on GitHub.