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 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, issues of digital sovereignty and cybersecurity sovereignty are 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, 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 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.
The first Foundations & Practice of Security (FPS) Symposium was held in 2008, following the Canada-France Meeting on Security organized at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver in 2007. Since then, FPS has been held annually, alternating between Canadian and French locations. After previous editions in Grenoble, Toronto, Paris, Montreal, La Rochelle, Clermont-Ferrand, Quebec City, Nancy, Toulouse, Ottawa, Bordeaux, Montréal, and Brest, the 19th edition of FPS will be held from October 13 to 16, 2026, in Gatineau, Quebec, canada.
Topics of Interest
The topics of interest include but are not limited to (alphabetically ordered):
- Access control
- Adversarial attacks to automated cyber defense
- AI for cybersecurity and cybersecurity for AI
- Behavioral cybersecurity and privacy
- Blockchain-based systems security and security services
- Code reverse engineering and vulnerability exploitation
- Computer and network security
- Cryptography and cryptanalysis
- Data security
- Digital Currencies
- Ethical and social implications of privacy and security
- Fake news detection
- Governance and Risk Management for security, privacy and cyber resilience
- Hardware security
- Human factors
- Identity management and protection
- IoT security and privacy
- Malware, botnet, and advanced persistent threats
- Open-source intelligence cybersecurity
- Privacy and privacy enhancing technologies
- Privacy and security awareness
- Security and privacy management and policies
- Security and Privacy of AI
- Security of cloud, grid, and edge computing
- Security of continuum IoT-edge-Cloud
- Security of distributed embedded middleware
- Security of service-oriented architectures
- Security, privacy, and trust of industrial systems
- Side-channel and physical attacks
- Software security
- Systems forensics and cybercrime
- Threat analysis and trust management
- User centric security
- Web Security and Privacy