As societies, organizations and critical infrastructures become increasingly dependent on interconnected digital environments, protecting data, systems and digital infrastructures has become a central challenge for cybersecurity, cyber resilience, and sovereignty. Indeed, cybersecurity and cyber resilience are now major fields of scientific research, aimed at designing technologies, methods and practices capable of preventing, detecting and countering cyber threats. Moreover, the rapid rise of artificial intelligence (AI) is profoundly transforming this field, creating new opportunities for analysis, automation and attack detection, while also introducing new risks related to model security, the malicious use of AI and data protection. In this context, the issue of digital sovereignty is becoming increasingly important, particularly with regard to the control of data, critical infrastructures, strategic technologies and cyber defence capabilities. In addition, many sectors, including banking, healthcare, transportation and manufacturing, rely on on-premise, cloud-based, or hybrid technologies to improve efficiency, scalability and resilience. Consequently, faced with this growing complexity, these environments require interdisciplinary research collaborations involving, in particular, mathematics, computer science, information systems, law, ethics, management and criminology.

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit original papers to the regular track of the conference, covering the full spectrum of theoretical and applied research in cybersecurity, including methodological approaches, tools, simulations, demonstrations, case studies as well as experimental and practical evaluations. For the 19th edition, the special topic of the conference will be the security and privacy of AI systems as well as the use of AI to solve fundamental privacy or security issues. In addition, FPS 2026 also includes an Industrial Track, dedicated to cybersecurity work applied in real-world environments, such as simulations in industrial information systems, field experience reports and case studies involving at least one industrial partner.

Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers must be written in English, follow the LNCS template and must be submitted electronically in PDF format. Reviewing will be double-blind, which means that the reviewers will not know the identities of the authors. The authors are responsible for ensuring the proper anonymization of their. Papers that are not properly anonymized or do not follow the required formatting guidelines may be desk-rejected independently of their scientific merit. The papers that will be selected for presentation at the conference will be included in post-proceedings published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series (prior to publication the papers should be revised according to the review comments). Pre-proceedings will appear at the time of the conference.

The maximum paper length is  20 printed pages for full papers and 12 pages for short, position papers and demos (including the bibliography and appendices). In addition, references have to follow the  LNCS style. For the industrial track, each submission must include at least one author with a non-academic affiliation and authors are encouraged to contact the industrial track chairs if they need clarification regarding the suitability of their work to this track. Finally as the conference is fully physical, authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the conference on-site.

All paper submissions will be handled through the Easy Chair conference management system.