Call for Papers

We invite you to participate in the 20th International Symposium on Human Aspects of Information Security & Assurance (HAISA). The event will run over three days, with presentations delivered by researchers from across the international community.

The symposium welcomes papers addressing research and case studies in relation to any aspect of information security that pertains to the attitudes, perceptions and behaviour of people, and how human characteristics or technologies may be positively modified to improve the level of protection. Indicative themes include the following list of topics (related topics will also be considered):

• Information security culture
• Awareness and education methods
• Enhancing risk perception
• Public understanding of security
• Usable security
• Psychological models of security software usage
• User acceptance of security policies and technologies
• User-friendly authentication methods
• Biometric technologies and impacts
• Automating security functionality
• Non-intrusive security
• Assisting security administration
• Impacts of standards, policies, compliance requirements
• Organizational governance for information assurance
• Simplifying risk and threat assessment
• Understanding motivations for misuse
• Social engineering and other human-related risks
• Privacy attitudes and practices
• Computer ethics and security

Paper Submission, review and publication

Authors are invited to submit full papers, not exceeding 14 pages (including all figures, tables and references).

Authors should consult Springer’s authors’ guidelines and use their proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or for Word, for the preparation of their papers. In addition, the corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a Copyright form. The corresponding author signing the copyright form should match the corresponding author marked on the paper. Once the files have been sent to Springer, changes relating to the authorship of the papers cannot be made.

Papers can be submitted to the conference paper management system here. All papers will be double-blind reviewed by at least three members of the Programme Committee. All accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings. Selected papers will be considered for publication in the main sponsoring journal, Information & Computer Security.

Important Dates:

April 3 2026

Deadline for submission of papers.

May 6 2026

Notification of paper acceptance.

June 5 2026

Deadline for camera ready paper submission and author registration.