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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  • 07/02/2025 – 07/06/2025

    EuroPLoP 2025

    30th European Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs, People, and Practices 2-6 July 2025, Kloster Irsee, Germany
  • 07/07/2025 – 07/12/2025

    CLOUD 2025

    IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CLOUD COMPUTING(CLOUD 2025) July 7-12Helsinki, Finland
  • 07/22/2025 – 07/23/2025

    SoS VI Mid Year Review 2025

    Please register by July 11, 2025. Venue address: 
  • 08/11/2025 – 08/12/2025

    VehicleSec ’25

    VehicleSec ’25: 3rd USENIX Symposium on Vehicle Security and Privacy August 11–12, 2025, Seattle, WA, USA Sponsored by USENIX, the Advanced Computing Systems Association