IEEE安全與隱私的主要目標是刺激和跟蹤安全、隱私和可靠性方面的進展，并以對學術研究人員和行業從業人員等廣泛專業團體有用的形式呈現這些進展。它為文章提供了安全和隱私領域的頂級思想家的實踐和研究，以及信息安全行業的案例研究、調查、教程、專欄和深入訪談和播客。通過一些特別的問題，雜志及時地探索了隱私的其他方面，如可用的安全性、物聯網、云計算、密碼學和大數據。其他熱門主題包括軟件、硬件、網絡和系統安全、隱私增強技術、安全和隱私數據分析、無線/移動和嵌入式安全、安全基礎、安全經濟學、隱私政策、集成設計方法、社會技術方面和關鍵基礎設施。此外，該雜志接受了廣泛關注的同行評議的文章，在一個普通的電話，也有定期專欄熱門話題和采訪該領域的名人。

IEEE Security & Privacy’s primary objective is to stimulate and track advances in security, privacy, and dependability and present these advances in a form that can be useful to a broad cross-section of the professional community—ranging from academic researchers to industry practitioners. It provides articles with both a practical and research bent by the top thinkers in the field of security and privacy, along with case studies, surveys, tutorials, columns, and in-depth interviews and podcasts for the information security industry. Through special issues, the magazine explores other timely aspects of privacy in areas such as usable security, the Internet of Things, cloud computing, cryptography, and big data. Other popular topics include software, hardware, network, and systems security, privacy-enhancing technologies, data analytics for security and privacy, wireless/mobile and embedded security, security foundations, security economics, privacy policies, integrated design methods, sociotechnical aspects, and critical infrastructure. In addition, the magazine accepts peer-reviewed articles of wide interest under a general call, and also features regular columns on hot topics and interviews with luminaries in the field.