2026 3rd IEEE Workshop on Cybersecurity for AI & AI for Cybersecurity (C4AI4C)

** News **

February 13, 2026 - Draft Program has been released, along with list of 11 accepted workshop papers.

February 11, 2026 - Acceptance emails have been sent out. Please note that the camera-ready submission and author registration deadline date has been extended to February 28, 2026.

December 15, 2025 - Paper submission deadline has been extended to January 30, 2026. See here for more details.

Scope and Aim 

The 2026 Workshop on Cybersecurity for AI & AI for Cybersecurity (C4AI4C), formerly known as the Workshop on AI for Cybersecurity: Friend or Foe?, will take place in Granada, Spain during the IEEE Conference on AI (CAI 2026). The Workshop is in its 3rd edition following two successful workshops in Honolulu, Hawaii (SMC 2023) and Vienna, Austria (SMC 2025). The Workshop aims to bring together experts from academia, government labs, and industry to discuss the advantages and challenges of using AI systems for cybersecurity and security in general. On one side of the equation, machine and specifically deep learning have been shown to achieve state-of-the-art results across numerous applications, particularly those related to anomaly/intrusion detection, biometrics, and computer vision, to name a few. On the other side, known vulnerabilities, such as data poisoning, adversarial attacks, hallucinations, social engineering, and deep fakes, make their widespread adoption dangerous, especially for safety-critical applications and those dealing with privacy-sensitive information. These two sides need to be considered when developing models of trust for AI-based systems and agents. 

Content and Objectives 

The use of AI in cybersecurity and security is a topic of extreme importance worldwide. It is, however, a double-edged sword that needs to have researchers working on both sides of the spectrum working together. This workshop will enable that. In this workshop, we will bring researchers working on both sides of the problem, i.e., on the use of AI for cybersecurity and the cybersecurity issues of AI, to the same room to brainstorm ideas on how to move the field forward in the most efficient way possible. The workshop will be comprised of posters, full-paper technical presentations, invited speakers, and networking events. These topics are of extreme relevance not only to cybersecurity and security researchers, but to the global AI community, with applications ranging from healthcare, to telepresence, to entertainment. The one-day C4AI4C Workshop is supported by the IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Brain-Machine Interface Systems, the INRS-UQO Joint Research Unit on Cybersecurity and Digital Trust, and with financial support from CIRICS and IEEE Future Directions Initiative on Telepresece.