Communities
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.

  • Symposium on the Science of Security (HotSoS)

    The Hot Topics in the Science of Security (HotSoS) Symposium is a research event centered on the Science of Security, which aims to address the fundamental problems of security in a principled manner. The twelfth annual event will be virtually held…

  • Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper Competition

    In order to encourage the development of the scientific foundations of cybersecurity, the National Security Agency (NSA) established The Annual Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper Competition. NSA invites nominations of papers that show an outstanding…