NordSec is an annual research conference series that has been running since 1996. The NordSec conferences address a broad range of IT security topics. The events bring together security researchers from the Nordic countries, Northern Europe, and beyond. In addition to being a venue for academic publishing, NordSec is an important meeting place for university faculty, students, and industry researchers and experts from the region. The NordSec 2026 emphasizes the Security and Privacy of Agentic AI and Human-AI Systems, addressing the security, privacy, and trustworthiness challenges that arise as these systems transition from passive tools to autonomous agents capable of planning, tool use, and persistent interaction. This year’s conference edition also highlights the growing role of machine-mediated decision-making in critical infrastructures, while recognizing the unique challenges posed by integrating AI/ML into socio-technical systems. Key focus areas include healthcare and digital health, smart cities and communities, national security, and various industry sectors such as automotive, energy, and banking.

NordSec addresses a broad range of cybersecurity topics to bring together computer security researchers and practitioners, encouraging interaction between academia and industry.

Submission Guidelines

Contributions should reflect original research, developments, studies, or experience. and must not exceed 16 pages (excluding well-marked appendices and references), with an overall limit of 20 pages in Springer LNCS format. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers published or simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings.

All submitted papers will be judged on quality and relevance through double-blind review, in which the authors' identities are withheld from the reviewers. As an author, you are required to make a good-faith effort to preserve the anonymity of your submission, while at the same time allowing the reader to fully grasp the context of related past work, including your own. Minimally, please take the following steps when preparing your submission:

• Remove the names and affiliations of authors from the title page.
• Remove acknowledgment of identifying names and funding sources.

Use care when referring to related work, particularly your own. Do not omit references to provide anonymity, as this leaves the reviewer unable to grasp the context. Instead, reference your past work in the third person, just as you would any other piece of related work by another author.

We encourage the inclusion of anonymized digital research artifacts, in the form of download links, in the submitted manuscript. Tools like https://github.com/tdurieux/anonymous_github/ could be useful to authors for anonymizing links and the contents of research artifacts consisting of code repositories.

Submissions that do not meet the guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. Authors of accepted papers must agree with Springer LNCS copyright and guarantee that their papers will be presented at the conference. By submitting a paper, you agree that at least one of the authors will physically attend the conference to present it. NordSec 2026 will publish fully digital online proceedings in the LNCS series, published by Springer Nature. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least three members of the program committee.

The LNCS LaTeX template can be found at: Lecture Notes in Computer Science | Information for authors and editors

The Overleaf template for preparing the manuscript can be found at: Overleaf LNCS template

Important Dates

Submission start date: 6 July 2026

Submission end date: 17 August 2026

Acceptance Notification: 17 September 2026

Conference registration deadline: 10 October 2026

Committees

Organizing Committee

• Christian Damsgaard Jensen: General Chair, ECE - Aarhus University
• Aslan Askarov: PC Co-chair, CS- Aarhus University
• Abhishek Vaish: PC Co-chair, ECE- Aarhus University

Program Committee

• Amir Ahmadian — Chalmers University of Technology
• Danel Ahman — University of Tartu
• Sedat Akleylek — University of Tartu
• Anders Andersen — UiT The Arctic University of Norway
• Mikael Asplund — Linköping University
• Karin Bernsmed — SINTEF
• Lukas Daubner — University of Tartu
• Edlira Dushku — Aalborg University
• Diego F. Aranha — Aarhus University
• Ulrik Franke — Swedish Defence University
• Lothar Fritsch — Oslo Metropolitan University
• Christian Gehrmann — Lund University
• Dieter Gollmann — Hamburg University of Technology
• Nils Gruschka — University of Oslo
• Kimmo Halunen — University of Oulu
• Rene Rydhof Hansen — Aalborg University
• Ismail Hassan — OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University
• Kirsi Helkala — Norwegian Defence Cyber Academy
• Erik Hjelmås — Gjøvik University College
• Sajad Homayoun — Aalborg University
• Mubashar Iqbal — University of Tartu
• Meiko Jensen — Karlstad University
• Hongyu Jin — KTH Royal Institute of Technology
• Liina Kamm — Cybernetica AS
• Sokratis Katsikas — Norwegian University of Science and Technology
• Viktoriia Korzhuk — ITMO University
• Elisavet Kozyri — UiT The Arctic University of Norway
• Toomas Krips — University of Tartu
• Michael Kubach — Fraunhofer
• Oksana Kulyk — IT University of Copenhagen
• Marcel Kyas — Reykjavík University
• Peeter Laud — Cybernetica AS
• Nuno Marques — Oslo Metropolitan University
• Raimundas Matulevičius — University of Tartu
• Jacopo Mauro — University of Southern Denmark
• Antonis Michalas — Tampere University
• Nurul Momen — OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University
• Simin Nadjm-Tehrani — Linköping University
• Boel Nelson — University of Copenhagen
• Mats Näslund — KTH Royal Institute of Technology
• Paolo Palmieri — University College Cork
• Arnis Paršovs — University of Tartu
• Danny Bøgsted Poulsen — Aalborg University
• Pille Pullonen-Raudvere — Cybernetica AS
• Juha Röning — University of Oulu
• Emre Süren — KTH Royal Institute of Technology
• Nicola Tuveri — Tampere University
• Vatsala Upadhyay — Amity University
• Risto Vaarandi — Tallinn University of Technology
• Adrian Venables — Tallinn University of Technology
• Srinivas Vivek — International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore, India
• Simon Vrhovec — University of Maribor
• Jan Willemson — Cybernetica
• Rose-Mharie Åhlfeldt — University of Skövde

Contact

• Christian Damsgaard Jensen - cdj@ece.au.dk
• Aslan Askarov - aslan@cs.au.dk
• Abhishek Vaish- abhishek.infosec@gmail.com