The 21st Annual Symposium on Information Assurance (ASIA ‘26) will be held in conjunction with the 28th New York State Cyber Security Conference (NYSCSC) June 2 to 3, 2026. This joint event will attract over 1,200 participants, including practitioners, researchers and vendors.

The Symposium is organized by the Massry School of Business at the University at Albany, State University of New York, the Chief Information Security Office (CISO) of the New York State Office of Information Technology Services (ITS) and the New York State Forum. Through generous sponsorships, we have free registration for all presenters, authors of accepted papers and members of government organizations.

Special themes for this year's conference are threats from artificial intelligence, auditing artificial Intelligence and using artificial intelligence for cybersecurity and digital forensics.

Submission Guidelines

Please use the Symposium Template Paper. Papers for ASIA 2026 should be submitted on the ASIA website.

Submissions can be made in the following categories:

• Completed Research Papers: Typically 5,000 words long (excluding abstract and references).
• Research in Progress Papers: Typically 2,500 words (excluding abstract and references).
• Panel Proposals: Typically a 1,000 word description, identifying the panelists to be involved.

Note: Please follow the formatting guidelines on the conference website.

List of Topics

• Artificial Intelligence
• Organizational Security
• Technological Security
• Incident Response and Forensics
• International Security Issues
• Security and Forensics Education

Committees

Program Committee

• ASIA General Chair

  Sanjay Goel
  Director, FACETS
  Chair & Professor, Information Security and Digital Forensics
  University at Albany, SUNY
  goel@albany.edu

  Organization Chair

  Jessica Smith
  NYS Office of Information Technology Services
  Jessica.smith2@its.ny.gov

  Program Chairs

  Pavel Gladyshev
  Professor, Computer Science
  University College Dublin
  Pavel.gladyshev@ucd.ie

  Web Chair

  Emily Maniak
  Research Associate, FACETS
  Massry School of Business
  University at Albany, SUNY
  emaniak@abany.edu

  Proceedings Chair

  Yuksel Celik
  FACETS
  University at Albany, SUNY, Karabuk University, Turkey
  ycelik@albany.edu

Organizing Committee

• Anil B. Somayaji, Carleton University, Canada
• Bill Stackpole, Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)
• Brian Nussbaum, University at Albany, SUNY
• Justin Pelletier, Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)
• Daryl Johnson, Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)
• Ernst Bekkering, Northeastern State University
• Gary C. Kessler, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
• George Berg, University at Albany, SUNY
• George Markowsky, Kennesaw State University, Atlanta Georgia
• Jim Hoag, Champlain College
• Joshua D. James, Coeus Intelligence, LLC
• Leon Reznik, Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)
• Kevin J. Williams, University at Albany, SUNY
• M.P. Gupta, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
• Manish Gupta, M&T Bank
• Mark Scanlon, University College Dublin
• Martin Loeb, University of Maryland
• Pavel Gladyshev, University College Dublin
• Pradeep K. Atrey, University at Albany, SUNY
• Raj Sharman, University at Buffalo, SUNY
• S. S. Ravi, University at Albany, SUNY
• Shambhu Upadhyaya, University at Buffalo, SUNY
• Siwei Lyu, University at Buffalo, SUNY
• Stephen F. Bush, GE Global Research Center
• Tae Oh, Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)
• Tejaswani Herath, Brock University
• Shuchi Sinha, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD)
• Akanksha Jamwal, London Metropolitan University
• Cristian Balan SUNY at Plattsburgh
• Gurvirender Tejay, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (UCCS)
• Somitra Kumar Sandhya, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur (IITJ)
• Victoria Kisekka, General Service Administration (GSA)
• Dominick Foti, Marist College
• Eitel Lauria, Marist College

Publication

ASIA2026 proceedings will be published as Proceedings Book in https://www.albany.edu/iasymposium

Venue

The 21st Annual Symposium on Information Assurance (ASIA ‘26) will be held in conjunction with the 28th New York State Cyber Security Conference (NYSCSC) June 2 to 3, 2026. This joint event will attract over 1,200 participants, including practitioners, researchers and vendors.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to Sanjay Goel goel@albany.edu, Yuksel Celik ycelik@albany.edu