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Statistics of acceptance rate for the top conferences: Oakland, CCS, USENIX Security, NDSS.

Computer-Security-Conference-Acceptance-Rate

Statistics of acceptance rate for the top conferences: Oakland S&P, ACM CCS, USENIX Security, NDSS.

• Oakland S&P acceptance rate 2025 call for paper

Conference	Acceptance rate	Paper (accepted/submitted)
Oakland'24	17.8%	258/1449
Oakland'23	17.1%	196/1147
Oakland'22	14.52%	147/1012
Oakland'21	12.1%	115/952
Oakland'20	12.3%	104/841
Oakland'19	12%	84/679
Oakland'18	11.5%	63/549
Oakland'17	13%	60/457
Oakland'16	13.3%	55/413
Oakland'15	13.5%	55/407
Oakland'14	13%	44/334
Oakland'13	12%	38/315
Average	13.12%	-

• ACM CCS acceptance rate 2025 call for paper

Conference	Acceptance rate	Paper (accepted/submitted)
CCS'24	-	-
CCS'23	19.87	158/795
CCS'22	22.4%	218/971
CCS'21	22.3%	196/879
CCS'20	16.9%	121/715
CCS'19	16%	149/934
CCS'18	16.6%	134/809
CCS'17	17.9%	151/843
CCS'16	16.5%	137/831
CCS'15	19.8%	128/646
CCS'14	19.5%	114/484
CCS'13	19.8%	105/530
Average	18.87%	-

• USENIX Security acceptance rate 2025 call for paper

Conference	Acceptance rate	Paper (accepted/submitted)
SEC'24	18.32%	417/2276
SEC'23	29.2%	422/1,444
SEC'22	18%	256/1414
SEC'21	18.7%	246/1316
SEC'20	16.1%	157/977
SEC'19	15.5%	113/729
SEC'18	19%	100/524
SEC'17	16.3%	85/522
SEC'16	15.6%	72/463
SEC'15	15.7%	67/426
SEC'14	19%	67/350
SEC'13	15.9%	44/277
Average	18.09%	-

• NDSS acceptance rate 2025 call for paper

Conference	Acceptance rate	Paper (accepted/submitted)
NDSS'24	20.2%	140/694
NDSS'23	16.2%	94/581
NDSS'22	16.2%	83/512
NDSS'21	15.2%	87/573
NDSS'20	17.4%	88/506
NDSS'19	17%	89/521
NDSS'18	21.5%	71/331
NDSS'17	16%	68/423
NDSS'16	15.4%	60/389
NDSS'15	16.9%	51/302
NDSS'14	18.6%	55/295
NDSS'13	18.8%	47/250
Average	17.2%	-

Others:

Top 20 Cyber Security Conferences

Security research on specific objects can also be published at top conferences in the corresponding fields.

Architecture

• ASPLOS, ISCA, MICRO, HPCA

Networks

• SIGCOMM, NSDI

Database

• SIGMOD, VLDB

Software

• FSE, ICSE

Operating System

• SOSP, OSDI, EuroSys, USENIX ATC, FAST

Programing Language

• PLDI, POPL, ICFP, OOPSLA

Mobile System

• MobiSys, MobiCom, SenSys

Embedded System

• EMSOFT, RTAS, RTSS

Note:

The data comes from the Internet and may not be accurate. Corrections and additions are welcome.