The Cybersecurity Conference Analysis Dataset

For details on the dataset and some initial analysis, check out our paper.

If you use this dataset in your publication, please cite it as follows:

@inproceedings{bognar26cycoanalysis,
    title     = {CyCoAnalysis: A Dataset of Cybersecurity Conference Metadata for Meta-Science and Policy Decisions},
    author    = {Bognar, Marton and Desmet, Lieven and Piessens, Frank},
    booktitle = {IEEE Security and Privacy Workshops (SPW)},
    month     = May,
    year      = 2026,
}

Scope

We currently cover the following conferences, tracking all editions since 2005:

• ACM CCS
• NDSS
• S&P
• USENIX Security
• ACSAC
• ASIACCS
• CSF
• ESORICS
• Euro S&P
• RAID

Contributing

Pull requests and issues are very welcome! We are especially looking for extensions to the dataset, either by adding new conference editions, or covering more (or more in-depth) aspects of the CFPs.

Structure

Each conference is located in a separate directory. The directory contains a separate file for each edition, named <year>.yaml.

Boolean properties should be interpreted as false when not provided.

To validate the schema of the YAML files, you can use the validate_schema.sh script.