Registration site.

CSF program is now online.
CSF Invited Speakers are Martín Abadi, Cédric Fournet, and Elaine Shi!

The Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF) is an annual conference for researchers in computer security, to examine current theories of security, the formal models that provide a context for those theories, and techniques for verifying security. It was created in 1988 as a workshop of the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Security and Privacy, in response to a 1986 essay by Don Good entitled “The Foundations of Computer Security—We Need Some.” The meeting became a “symposium” in 2007, along with a policy for open, increased attendance. Over the past two decades, many seminal papers and techniques have been presented first at CSF. For more details on the history of the symposium, visit CSF's home.

The program includes papers and panels. Topics of interest include access control, information flow, covert channels, cryptographic protocols, database security, language-based security, authorization and trust, verification techniques, integrity and availability models, and broad discussions concerning the role of formal methods in computer security and the nature of foundational research in this area.

Important Dates

All deadlines are local time of Santa Barbara, CA, USA (UTC-7).

Application for Student Support July 10, 2017 (extended)
Notification of Student Support July 17, 2017
Early Registration Deadline July 20, 2017
Late Registration Deadline August 16, 2017
Affiliated Workshops August 21, 2017
CSF August 22-25, 2017


Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society's Technical Commitee on Security and Privacy.

We are grateful for the support of: