DBSec is an annual international conference covering research in data and applications security and privacy. The 35th Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy (DBSec 2021) will be held in Calgary, Canada (online), on July 19th – July 20th 2021.

Papers accepted at DBSec are published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series – Data and Applications Security and Privacy XXXIV Proceedings.

High-quality original novel research from academia, industry, and government presenting on all theoretical and practical aspects of information security are accepted on topics including, but are not limited to:

- access control                          
- anonymity                              
- applied cryptography in data security  
- authentication                          
- big data security                      
- data and system integrity           
- data protection                      
- database security                      
- digital rights management   
- distributed and decentralized security        
- identity management                  
- intrusion detection                  
- knowledge discovery and privacy                        
- methodologies for data and application security  
- network security
- organisational and social aspects of security                          
- privacy                                          
- secure cloud computing                              
- secure distributed systems                          
- secure information integration   
- security and privacy in crowdsourcing              
- security and privacy in IT outsourcing              
- security and privacy in the Internet of Things            
- security and privacy in location-based services
- security and privacy in P2P scenarios and social networks
- security and privacy in pervasive/ubiquitous computing
- security and privacy policies
- security management and audit
- security metrics
- threats, vulnerabilities, and risk management
- trust and reputation systems
- trust management
- web security
- wireless and mobile security