Acknowledgments: this pub is a summary of collective wisdom from many scholars, especially my collaborators in computer science and participants at ACM CCS’22.

1. Top Four Security Conferences:

• IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P)

  https://dblp.org/db/conf/sp/index.html

  [YouTube]

• USENIX Security Symposium: 

  https://dblp.org/db/conf/uss/index.html

  [YouTube]

• Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS)

  https://dblp.org/db/conf/ccs/index.html

  [YouTube]

• Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS)

  https://dblp.org/db/conf/ndss/index.html

  [YouTube]

  2. Interdisciplinary Conferences for Security + X

• Availability, Reliability, and Security (ARS)

  https://www.ares-conference.eu/

• Internet of Things, Big Data, and Security

  https://iotbds.scitevents.org/

• Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security (GameSec’22)

  https://www.gamesec-conf.org/

• Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PET)

  https://petsymposium.org/

• ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WISE):

  https://wisec2022.cs.utsa.edu/

• IEEE Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security:

  https://vizsec.org/

  3. Tools for Finding Conferences

• CSRankings: Computer Science Rankings

  https://csrankings.org/

• Conference Portal

  http://portal.core.edu.au/conf-ranks

• Top Multi-party Computation (MPC) Conference Deadlines

  https://mpc-deadlines.github.io/

  4. Open Educational Resources for Introduction to Security

• Hands-on Cyber-security:

  https://pwn.college/

• Security is about control: insights from cybernetics:

  https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2898375.2898379

• SoK: Science, Security, and the Elusive Goal of Security as a Scientific Pursuit

  https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7958573

• Privacy at Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy:

  https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/privacy/

• DeFi Mooc:

  https://defi-learning.org/f22

  [YouTube]

5. Women in Security

• Women in Security (WiCyS)

  https://www.wicys.org/

• CyberW:

  https://sites.google.com/vt.edu/cyberw2020/home