International Symposium on
Engineering Secure Software and Systems

July 4 - 5, 2017,
University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

papers ESSoS 2017

Paper submission: Friday, February 24, 2017
(anywhere on earth, firm)
Paper acceptance notification: Tuesday, April 18, 2017
Artifact evaluation submission: Friday, April 21, 2017
Poster submission: Tuesday, April 25, 2017
Poster acceptance notification: Friday, April 28, 2017
Camera-ready: Friday, May 12, 2017

More info on topics, submission and format

Context and motivation

Trustworthy, secure software is a core ingredient of the modern world. Hostile, networked environments, like the Internet, can allow vulnerabilities in software to be exploited from anywhere. To address this, high-quality security building blocks (e.g., cryptographic components) are necessary, but insufficient. Indeed, the construction of secure software is challenging because of the complexity of modern applications, the growing sophistication of security requirements, the multitude of available software technologies and the progress of attack vectors. Clearly, a strong need exists for engineering techniques that scale well and that demonstrably improve the software's security properties.

Goal and setup

The goal of this symposium, which will be the ninth in the series, is to bring together researchers and practitioners to advance the states of the art and practice in secure software engineering. Being one of the few conference-level events dedicated to this topic, it explicitly aims to bridge the software engineering and security engineering communities, and promote cross-fertilization. The symposium will feature two days of technical program. In addition to academic papers, the symposium encourages submission of high-quality, informative industrial experience papers about successes and failures in security software engineering and the lessons learned. Furthermore, the symposium also accepts short idea papers that crisply describe a promising direction, approach, or insight.