The nomination window for the 2026 Competition is now open! NSA invites nominations of papers that show an outstanding contribution to cybersecurity science. A set of Distinguished Experts will review the nominations according to established criteria.

The twenty-sixth annual High Confidence Software and Systems (HCSS) Conference will be held May 11-13, 2026, at the Historic Inns of Annapolis in Annapolis, Maryland. We solicit proposals to present talks at the conference. If you are interested in offering a talk—or nominating someone else to be invited to do so—please upload an abstract of one page or less for your proposed talk or a one paragraph description of your nominee’s proposed talk by January 19, 2026.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Vanderbilt University invite your students to participate in the Mission Autonomy Hackathon, an immersive five-day event advancing innovation in autonomous systems. The hackathon will be held October 6–10, 2025, with sessions at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN.

The National Security Agency (NSA) has awarded the 12th Annual Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper Competition to “Decoding Trust: Comprehensive Assessment of Trustworthiness in GPT Models.” The winning paper, authored by 19 researchers including Professors Dawn Song (UC Berkeley), Bo Li (UIUC), and Sanmi Koyejo (Stanford), proposes a groundbreaking evaluation framework for assessing the trustworthiness of large language models (LLMs) such as GPTs.

The National Security Agency has published their 2023 Cybersecurity Year in Review!

In an effort to be more transparent, the National Security Agency publishes an annual year in review sharing information regarding cybersecurity efforts that better equipped U.S. defenses against high priority cyber threats. NSA’s efforts to help secure the nation’s most sensitive systems also help your cybersecurity because NSA cascades these solutions through public guidance and engages with key technology providers to help them bolster the security of their products and services.

"In February 2024, a ransomware attack on Change Healthcare disrupted medical claims processing for nearly half of all U.S. health care transactions. The breach cost UnitedHealth Group over $2.8 billion, exposed the personal data of 190 million Americans, and forced hospitals nationwide to delay patient care. The cause? A remote access portal without multi-factor authentication. As one senator put it: “This hack could have been stopped with cybersecurity 101.”

To support critical infrastructure organizations in defending against cyber threats, the United States and six partner nations have released new cybersecurity guidance aimed at operators of operational technology (OT). The recommendations address a wide range of best practices, including isolating networks and improving system monitoring and logging.