The International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS), held annually in India, is a forum for dissemination of research results related to computer security. ICISS 2019, the 15th edition of the conference, will be held at IDRBT in the city of Hyderabad from December 16 to 20, 2019.

Over the past several years, the acceptance rate of ICISS has averaged less than 30%. The proceedings of the conference are published by Springer Verlag as part of their LNCS series. ICISS encourages submissions from academia, industry and government. Its scope covers both theoretical and applied research within the broad area of information and systems security. For more details see the call for papers.

We are pleased to announce that ICISS 2019 will have a "Best Practice Paper" award sponsored by IDRBT. The award will carry a cash prize of INR. 15,000/- and a Certificate.

Authors of some accepted papers of ICISS 2019 may be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to the Journal of Banking and Financial Technology (JBFT)

"Partial financial support" is available for a limited number of meritorious Ph.D. students working in the areas of relevance to the conference.

The proceedings of ICISS 2019 will be published as Volume 11952 in LNCS by Springer.

Paper submission deadline: July 12, 2019 August 05, 2019
Notification: September 25, 2019 September 29, 2019
Camera-ready deadline: November 01, 2019
Conference: December 16-20, 2019

Steering Committee for 2019

• Aditya Bagchi, ISI Kolkota
• Venu Govindaraju, SUNY
• Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University
• Somesh Jha, University of Wisconsin
• Arun Kumar Majumdar, IIT Kharagpur
• Chandan Mazumdar, Jadavpur University
• Atul Prakash, University of Michigan
• A. S. Ramasastri, IDRBT
• Pierangela Samarati, University of Milan
• R. K. Shyamasundar, IIT Bombay

General Chair

• R. K. Shyamsundar, IIT Bombay

PC Chairs

• Deepak Garg, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems
• N. V. Narendra Kumar, IDRBT

Workshop Chairs

• Abhishek Kumar Thakur, IDRBT
• Kannan Srinathan, IIIT Hyderabad

Tutorial Chairs

• Basant Rajan, Coriolis Technologies
• Vishwas Patil, IIT Bombay