The 21st Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2026), 24-27 Aug 2026

The 21st Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2026) is dedicated to various aspects of dependability - with special focus on the crucial linkage between reliability, availability and security. Topics included:

Dependability Administration
Safety Critical Systems
Authorization and Authentication
Cost/Benefit Analysis
Business Continuity & Resilience
Dependability Aspects for Special Applications (e.g. ERP-Systems, Logistics)
Cryptography
Availability and Reliability
Dependability Aspects of Electronic Government (e-Government)
Designing Security Requirements
Dependability in Open Source Software
E-Commerce Dependability
Digital Forensics
Identity Management
Failure Prevention
Incident Response and Prevention
IPR of Security Technology
Information Hiding
Information Flow Control
Interoperability Aspects
Internet Dependability
Legal Issues
Intrusion Detection and Fraud Detection
Network and Organizational Vulnerability Analysis
Mobile Security
Privacy-Enhancing Technologies
Network Security
RFID Security and Privacy
Process based Security Models and Methods
Security in Electronic Payments
Risk planning, Analysis & Awareness
Security Issues for Ubiquitous Systems
Secure Enterprise Architectures
Security and Trust Management in P2P and Grid applications
Security and Privacy in E-Health
Security and Usability
Security and Privacy for Sensor Networks, Wireless/Mobile Devices and Applications
Security in Distributed Systems / Distributed Databases
Security as Quality of Service
Security in Electronic Voting
Trust Models and Trust Management
Software Security
Software Engineering of Dependable Systems
Survivability of Computing Systems
Standards, Guidelines and Certification
Threats and Attack Modelling
Temporal Aspects of Dependability
Tools for Dependable System Design and Evaluation
Trusted Computing
VOIP, Wireless Security