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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  • 05/05/2025 – 05/08/2025

    2025 IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST)

    "IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST) aims to facilitate the rapid growth of hardware-based security research and development. HOST highlights new results in the area of hardware and system security.
  • 05/06/2025 – 05/06/2025

    RAGE 2025

    RAGE 2025 The 4th Real-time And intelliGent Edge computing workshop@ CPS-IOT Week 2025
  • 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…
  • 05/12/2025 – 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.