The Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS) is the leading forum for interdisciplinary scholarship on information security and privacy, combining expertise from the fields of economics, social science, business, law, policy, and computer science. Prior workshops have explored the role of incentives between attackers and defenders of information systems, examined human behavior surrounding security decision-making, identified market failures surrounding Internet security, quantified risks of personal data disclosure, and assessed investments in cyber-defense.
WEIS 2026 will build on past efforts using empirical and analytic tools not only to understand threats, but also to strengthen security and privacy through novel evaluations of available solutions.
We encourage participation by submission of paper and attendance by economists, computer scientists, legal scholars, business researchers (from academia and elsewhere), and security and privacy researchers from academia and industry to submit research on relevant topics, including but not limited to:
Due to the interdisciplinary nature of the workshop no detailed formatting guidelines are set for submission. Authors may use whatever academic formats are usual in their field, but should keep in mind the interdisciplinary nature of the audience and try to write in a way that is accessible to those from outside their field. However, submissions should be in PDF to improve technical readability.
The workshop is for the presentation of novel conceptualisations or results in the field. Although the conference does not produce a refereed proceedings, papers should not be currently under review for or already accepted for publication in a refereed conference or journal during the workshop review period. The goal of the workshop is to provide a forum for discussion and feedback before work is published formally, rather than for the presentation of otherwise completed and published work.
Reviews will be conducted in a double anonymous manner (neither authors nor reviewers know the other’s identity) to try to ensure a fair reviewing process (see https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/6/228027-effectiveness-of-anonymization-in-double-blind-review/abstract). The submission itself should not contain the names or affiliations of the authors (those details will be held on the submission site but not accessible to reviewers, only the PC chairs). References to previous work by the authors should be cited in the third person, and only where it is impossible to otherwise anonymise the current authors should references themselves be anonymised.
Authors may continue to present and discuss their work while it is under review, but should not deliberately seek to de-anonymise their submission by seeking out Program Committee members. See the Workshops’ Reviewer Ethics guidelines for more details.
Papers should be submitted via easychair at https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=weis2026 .
