CFP

WISE2026: 18th World Conference on Information Security Education

Pan Pacific Hotel

Perth, Australia, June 9-11, 2026

Conference website	https://www.ifiptc11.org/wg118-wise
Submission link	https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wise2026

The 18th World Conference on Information Security Education (WISE2026)

IFIP TC-11 WG 11.8 - Information Security Education

In conjunction with the 41st IFIP TC-11 International Information Security and Privacy Conference (IFIP SEC 2026)

IFIP Working Group 11.8 - Information Security Education will hold the 18th World Conference on Information Security Education (WISE2026) to advance the state of computer security and information assurance education throughout the world. To that end, we invite practitioners, researchers, policy makers, and others from academia, industry, and government to submit papers for presentation and topics for working group discussions to WISE2026. We will organize the conference around paper presentations. All presentations and discussions will be in English.

WISE2026 will be co-hosted with the 41st IFIP TC11 Information Security & Privacy Conference (SEC). More information can be found on the WISE2026 (https://www.ifiptc11.org/wg118-wise) and IFIP SEC (https://ifipsec.org/) websites.

Conference Theme

We solicit submissions on all relevant Information Security Education topics including, but not limited to:

Artificial Intelligence in Cybersecurity and/or Education
Cyber Resilience for Nations and Citizens
Emerging Trends, Technological Advances, and Holistic Approaches in Information Security Education
Serious Games or Gamification
Cybersecurity Mindset
Cyber Ranges and Research Laboratories
Upskilling and Lifelong Learning
Threat Intelligence
Cyber Ethics and Ethical Hacking
Cyber Defense Training
Information Security Professionals
Computer Forensics and the Law
Critical Information Infrastructure Security

Secure e-Banking and e-Commerce
The Internet of Things Security
Financial and Economic Security
New Programs in Security and Privacy Education
Experimental Information Security Education and Training
Information Security Curricula Guidelines
Evaluation of Security Programs
International Standards and Certifications
Professional Competencies in Security
Informing Citizens in Information Security and Programs to Raise Information Security Awareness
Information Security Education in Non-Academic Contexts
Online, Hybrid, and Automated Learning

Important Dates

Deadline for submission of full papers and working group abstracts: 13 February 2026
Notification of acceptance: 13 March 2026
Delivery of camera-ready papers by authors: 30 March 2026

Submission Guidelines

The conference will feature general paper sessions and a working group session.

Paper submissions should follow the guidelines for full paper submission (initially without author or institution names) using the template that can be found when ready at: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines
Templates are available here:
Submit at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wise2026
The submissions for WISE will be reviewed separately from the IFIP TC-11 International Information Security and Privacy Conference.
Submitted papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted to another conference or journal for consideration.
Acceptance will be based upon originality, contribution to the field, and relevance to the conference.

Author Instructions for Full Papers

Papers submissions must be made through the paper submission site.
Authors MUST remove personal and institutional identification information throughout the paper.
All papers must be written in English.
Paper length for submission can be at most 14 pages long including reference and appendices
Submission and Acceptable Formats:
- Please submit your paper in either MS Word or PDF.
- Abstracts are not being accepted for review.
- Authors must submit full papers by the deadline for their papers to be considered.
- For working group proposals, please submit the abstract in MS Word or PDF.
Blind Review and Conflict of Interest
- Blind Review: Authors MUST remove personal and institutional identification information throughout the paper. The workshop is using a double-blind review process. This means that the reviewers will not be aware who wrote the papers that they are reviewing and the review comments will be anonymous to the paper authors.
- Conflict of Interest: A real or apparent conflict of interest (COI) exists when the author and reviewer have a mutual stake in the acceptance of the submission or in some fashion one has influence over the other. For some (not all-inclusive) examples, COIs exist when the author and reviewer are involved in:
  - an advisoral relationship (one is or was on the other's dissertation committee).
  - an employment relationship (one is the boss of the other).
  - a contractual relationship (one controls the awarding of contracts to the other).
  - a close personal relationship.
  - a financial relationship.
  - a current or very recent collaboration, co-authorship, or co-worker relationship.

Publication

The conference proceedings are now published under the IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology Series by Springer (with ISBN and indexed in Scopus).

Venue

The conference is co-located with IFIP SEC 2026 and will be held 9-11 June 2026 in Perth, Australia.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to Publications Chairs: Grace Leung (wsleung@uj.ac.za) or Gurvirender Tejay (tejay@ieee.org).