Call For Papers: Special Issue on Inclusive Security and Privacy Engineering

IEEE Security & Privacy seeks submissions for this upcoming issue.

Submission deadline: 17 August 2026

Publication: Mar/April 2027

This special issue will explore methodological & engineering advances in inclusive security and privacy engineering. Security & privacy provisioning exercises should not only recognize the heterogeneity of individual needs but also reflect them into how systems are conceived, designed and engineered. This is key to security mechanism provisioning exercises particularly for marginalized and disadvantaged groups. Complementing on prior research to bring users at the center of systems design, we focus on methodological considerations to achieve security and privacy for all and not just few. To that end, we solicit research articles, case studies, on the following (but not restricted to) topics.

Methodological advances to capture the security & privacy needs of disadvantaged groups at the intersection of their diverse beings.
Process interventions for inclusive security & privacy engineering in the software development lifecycle.
Novel developer tools for inclusive security & privacy engineering. • AI powered assistants for inclusive security & privacy engineering.
De-colonizing inclusive security and privacy engineering.
PETs for global south.
Accessible PETs for diverse ability individuals.
Study of platform accessibility interventions with respect to security & privacy of their users.
Economics of inclusive security & privacy engineering.
Tech policy interventions for inclusive security and privacy engineering. • Socio technical aspects of methodological interventions to support inclusive security engineering.
Theoretical and empirical contributions to measure security & privacy poverty

Submission Instructions:

For author information and guidelines on submission criteria, please visit the Author Information page. As stated in the Author Information, peer-reviewed articles should run between 4,900 to 7,200 words, including all main body, abstract, keyword, bibliography, biography, and table text. The word count should include 250 words for each table and figure. There should be no more than 15 references. The abstract word limit is 50 words. Please submit full papers through the IEEE Author Portal system, and be sure to select the special-issue or special-section name. Manuscripts should not be published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. Please submit only full papers intended for review, not abstracts, to the IEEE Author Portal. All submitted manuscripts will undergo a single-anonymous peer review.

In addition to submitting your paper to IEEE Security & Privacy, you are also encouraged to upload the data related to your paper to IEEE DataPort. IEEE DataPort is IEEE's data platform that supports the storage and publishing of datasets while also providing access to thousands of research datasets. Uploading your dataset to IEEE DataPort will strengthen your paper and will support research reproducibility. Your paper and the dataset can be linked, providing a good opportunity for you to increase the number of citations you receive. Data can be uploaded to IEEE DataPort prior to submitting your paper or concurrent with the paper submission. Thank you!

Questions should be addressed to guest editors:

Partha Das Chowdhury, University of Bristol
Karen Renaud, University of Strathclyde