Why it matters
February 23, 2026 - February 27, 2026
NDSS 2026 combined systems-security research with dedicated AI-security sessions and the co-located LAST-X workshop on LLM-assisted security and trust exploration. The archived program includes attacks on LLM availability and alignment, watermark robustness, AI-enabled phishing defenses, adversarial ML, and evaluations of LLMs used in security work.
My takeaway: The archive offers papers, slides, and videos that can seed adversarial test cases. Separate attacks on models from attacks on complete applications, verify whether demonstrations survive realistic constraints, and track how LLM-assisted defensive tools are evaluated for false confidence, poisoning, and operator misuse.