advancing cybersecurity through science

The National Security Agency Research Directorate sponsors the Science of Security Initiative to promote foundational cybersecurity science that is needed to mature the cybersecurity discipline and to underpin advances in cyberdefense. The SoS initiative works in several ways. 1. Engage the academic community for foundational research, 2. Promote rigorous scientific principles, and 3. grow the SoS community. The SoS Virtual Organization is the SoS’s initiative online home.

Research
promoting foundational cybersecurity science needed to mature the cybersecurity discipline and advance cyberdefense
HotSoS
providing a focal point for security science related work and facilitating collaborative community to advance security science
Competitions
sponsoring engaging competitions and rewarding demonstrated excellence in the cybersecurity community

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  • 05/06/2025 – 05/09/2025

    31st IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS 2025)

    RTAS is a top-tier conference with a focus on systems with timing requirements. RTAS’25 welcomes papers describing applications, case studies, methodologies, tools, algorithms or operating systems, middleware or hardware innovations that contribute to…
  • 05/08/2025 – 05/09/2025

    2025 Southeast 3CS Cybersecurity Summit

    The 2025 Southeast Community College Cyber Summit (SE-3CS) will take place on May 8–9, 2025, at Central Georgia Technical Col
  • 05/12/2025 – 05/14/2025

    HCSS 2025

    The twenty-fifth annual High Confidence Software and Systems (HCSS) Conference will be held May 12-14, 2025, at the Historic Inns of Annapolis in Annapolis, Maryland. We solicit proposals to present talks at the conference.
  • 05/12/2025 – 05/15/2025

    46th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy

    "Since 1980, the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy has been the premier forum for presenting developments in computer security and electronic privacy, and for bringing together researchers and practitioners in the field.