A Symposium, a Magazine, and a Community [Guest editorial]

I remember attending my first IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy in 1982. It was my first year out of graduate school, and I was working at the MITRE Corporation. Many of the symposium’s early organizers came from MITRE’s security group, and the buzz in the halls was that the symposium was the most important conference of the year. It’s now in its 35th year and continues to be the premier forum for presenting developments in computer security and electronic privacy and bringing together researchers and practitioners in the field.