NDSS fosters information exchange among researchers and practitioners of network and distributed system security. The target audience includes those interested in practical aspects of network and distributed system security, with a focus on actual system design and implementation. A major goal is to encourage and enable the Internet community to apply, deploy, and advance the state of available security technologies.

Submissions are solicited in, but not limited to, the following areas:

-    Anti-malware techniques: detection, analysis, and prevention
-    Combating cyber-crime: anti-phishing, anti-spam, anti-fraud techniques
-    Security for future Internet architectures and designs (e.g., Software-Defined Networking)
-    High-availability wired and wireless networks
-    Implementation, deployment and management of network security policies
-    Integrating security in Internet protocols: routing, naming, network management
-    Intellectual property protection: protocols, implementations, metering, watermarking, digital rights management
-    Intrusion prevention, detection, and response
-    Privacy and anonymity technologies
-    Security and privacy for distributed cryptocurrencies
-    Security and privacy in Social Networks
-    Public key infrastructures, key management, certification, and revocation
-    Special problems and case studies: e.g., tradeoffs between security and efficiency, usability, reliability and cost
-    Security for collaborative applications: teleconferencing and video-conferencing
-    Security for cloud computing
-    Security for emerging technologies: sensor/wireless/mobile/personal networks and systems
-    Security for future home networks, Internet of Things, body-area networks
-    Security for large-scale systems and critical infrastructures (e.g., electronic voting, smart grid)
-    Security for peer-to-peer and overlay network systems
-    Security for Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs)
-    Security of Web-based applications and services
-    Trustworthy Computing mechanisms to secure network protocols and distributed systems
-    Usable security and privacy