The Cybersecurity Conference Analysis Dataset

Note

This repository is still a work in progress, make sure to check back in a few weeks!

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

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.