Last week, Towson University’s Cyber4All Center welcomed students and faculty to a watch party for the 2025 Hot Topics in the Science of Security (HoTSoS) Symposium. The event, held on April 1–3, provided attendees with an opportunity to engage with cutting-edge cybersecurity research and discussions.

Students at Vanderbilt University are playing an active role in national security policymaking through a unique immersive learning initiative offered by the Institute for National Security (INS). The program combines classroom instruction with real-world engagement, enabling students to tackle pressing issues such as cybersecurity, emerging technologies, and global conflict.

The IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (Euro S&P) is the younger, more adventurous, and tastier sibling conference of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy ("Oakland" or "NorCal S&P") conference. It is a premier forum for computer security and privacy research, presenting the latest developments and bringing together researchers and practitioners.

MODELS, the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering Languages and Systems, is the premier conference series for model-based software and systems engineering. MODELS 2025 solicits submissions on a variety of topics related to modeling for software and systems engineering. As in previous years, MODELS 2025 offers two tracks for technical papers: the Foundations Track and the Practice Track.

Vanderbilt University has announced that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will deliver the opening keynote at the upcoming Summit on Modern Conflict and Emerging Threats, set to take place on April 17-18, 2025. The summit will bring together leading experts from government, academia, and industry to discuss the evolving landscape of national security in the age of artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and geopolitical instability.