Co-located with NGEN-AI 2026

The International Workshop on Security for AI Systems and AI for Systems Security (AISEC 2026)

AISEC 2026 is organized with the 2026 International Conference on Next Generation AI Systems (NGEN-AI 2026), taking place on 1–4 September 2026 in Trento, Italy, and online over Zoom.

The workshop brings together researchers and practitioners working at the intersection of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity, covering both security for AI systems and AI-based methods for strengthening the security of modern software, network, cloud, edge, IoT, and cyber-physical systems.

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Submit original work on securing AI systems and using AI to secure complex digital systems.

AISEC 2026 invites researchers, practitioners, and industry experts to submit original contributions addressing the increasingly important relationship between artificial intelligence and cybersecurity. As AI systems become embedded in critical software, cloud, edge, IoT, autonomous, and cyber-physical infrastructures, new security risks emerge around robustness, privacy, trust, misuse, accountability, and operational resilience. At the same time, AI is creating new opportunities for threat detection, vulnerability analysis, incident response, secure software engineering, and adaptive defense.

The workshop welcomes theoretical, empirical, experimental, and applied work, including full research papers, short papers, position papers, case studies, tool demonstrations, datasets, benchmarks, and lessons learned from real-world deployments.

Scope

AISEC 2026 focuses on two closely connected research directions. The first is security for AI systems, covering methods, architectures, tools, and evaluation approaches for protecting AI models, AI-enabled applications, LLM-based systems, autonomous agents, and data-driven infrastructures against attacks, failures, leakage, manipulation, and misuse. This includes questions related to adversarial robustness, model integrity, data poisoning, prompt injection, privacy risks, secure MLOps, trustworthy deployment, explainability, governance, and compliance.

The second direction is AI for systems security, focusing on how machine learning, generative AI, agentic AI, federated learning, and other intelligent techniques can improve the security of software-intensive systems. Relevant work may address intrusion detection, malware analysis, vulnerability discovery, secure software engineering, digital forensics, risk assessment, security monitoring, incident response, and protection of cloud, edge, IoT, networked, and cyber-physical systems.

Accepted papers will be published in the NGEN-AI 2026 main conference proceedings in Springer CCIS series, indexed in leading databases including SCOPUS, Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals and Series, DBLP, EI Compendex, INSPEC, SCImago, zbMATH, and the Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST).

Topics of Interest

Adversarial attacks, defenses, and robustness of AI systems
Data poisoning, model stealing, model inversion, and membership inference
Security and safety of LLMs, generative AI, and agentic AI systems
Prompt injection, jailbreaks, tool misuse, and secure AI agents
Privacy-preserving, trustworthy, explainable, and accountable AI security
Secure MLOps, AI lifecycle security, and model supply-chain protection
Secure deployment of AI in cloud, edge, IoT, and cyber-physical systems
AI-based intrusion detection, anomaly detection, and threat intelligence
AI for malware analysis, vulnerability discovery, and digital forensics
AI-assisted secure software engineering and code security analysis
Federated, distributed, and privacy-preserving intelligence for cybersecurity
Security of autonomous systems, robotics, smart cities, and critical infrastructure
Benchmarks, datasets, testbeds, and reproducibility for AI security research
Human, organizational, legal, ethical, and governance aspects of secure AI systems
Important Dates

Key deadlines

Paper Submission August 1st, 2026
Author Notification August 12th, 2026
Camera-Ready Due August 20th, 2026
Conference & Workshop 1–4 September 2026
Venue

Hosted by the University of Trento

AISEC 2026 will be held with NGEN-AI 2026 at the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento, in Trento, Italy.

Location

  • Host institution: University of Trento
  • Department: Information Engineering and Computer Science
  • Venue: Polo Ferrari - Povo 1
  • City: Trento, Italy

Conference Experience

The venue provides a professional academic environment for technical sessions, discussions, networking, and collaboration on next generation AI systems and AI security.

NGEN-AI 2026 is planned as an in-person event in Trento, with online participation over Zoom.

Organizing Committee

Workshop leadership

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General Chairs

Victor R. Kebande University of Colorado Denver, USA
Kayode Adewole Malmö University, Sweden

TPC Chairs

Erdal Akin Malmö University, Sweden
Abdullah Hamdan CISPA, Germany

Program Committee

Program Committee members will be announced soon.

Ready to submit?

Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished work through the NGEN-AI 2026 submission system. Please update the button link if AISEC receives a dedicated submission track or workshop link.

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