DBSec is an annual international conference covering research in data and applications security and privacy. The 40th Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy (DBSec 2026) will be held in Arlington, Virginia, USA, from July 28 to July 30, 2026.

The conference provides a forum for presenting high-quality original research from academia, industry, and government on both theoretical and practical aspects of information security. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Access control · Anonymity · Applied cryptography in data security · Authentication · Big data security · Data and system integrity · Data for LLMs, GenAI, ML/DL (curation, vector databases) · Data protection · Data provenance · 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 · Organizational and social aspects of security · Ownership, privacy, and licensing of data for AI training · 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 location-based services · Security and privacy in P2P 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.