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
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providing a focal point for security science related work and facilitating collaborative community to advance security science
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Competitions
sponsoring engaging competitions and rewarding demonstrated excellence in the cybersecurity community
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  • 04/14/2024 – 04/20/2024

    46th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2024)

    "The IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering, is the premier software engineering conference.
  • 04/16/2024 – 04/18/2024

    Open Source Summit

    "Open Source Summit is the premier event for open source developers, technologists, and community leaders to collaborate, share information, solve problems, and gain knowledge, furthering open source innovation and ensuring a sustainable open source ec
  • 04/19/2024 – 04/19/2024

    2024 IEEE Power and Energy Conference at Illinois (PECI)

    "The conference scope of topics includes, but is not limited to, all aspects of novel research in the Power & Energy Area.
  • 04/19/2024 – 04/21/2024

    17th Dallas Circuits and Systems Conference (DCAS)

    "This conference is co-sponsored by the IEEE Circuits and Systems (CAS) Society, the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society, the IEEE Electron Devices Society, UT Dallas and UNT and will feature a comprehensive program of technical papers, poster sess