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Use when explaining or planning around ACM CCS peer review, the two-cycle HotCRP workflow, decision categories including minor revision, the rebuttal window, the adversarial reviewer pool, ethics and disclosure scrutiny, meta-review dynamics, and ACM proceedings outcomes.

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# CCS Review Process

Use this to reason about review-stage strategy. Reopen the current CFP, the cycle's HotCRP
site, the reviewer guidelines if posted, and the ethics policy before making process claims.

## Process model

- CCS runs two review cycles per year on HotCRP, each with abstract registration, full-paper
  submission, review, a rebuttal window, and notification.
- Reviewers assess threat-model soundness, novelty, technical correctness, evidence quality,
  ethics and responsible disclosure, and significance to the security community.
- Decisions are not binary: CCS 2026 used accept, minor revision (authors revise for the same
  cycle under a shepherd or check), and reject. A first-cycle reject cannot return that year.
- An ethics or disclosure concern can sink an otherwise strong paper; the ethics reviewer's
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