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The 2014 Symposium and Bootcamp on the Science of Security (HotSoS) was held April 8-9, 2014 in Raleigh, North Carolina. Presentations given at this meeting are archived at http://cps-vo.org/group/sos/hotsos2014/program .

Over 130 leaders from government, industry, and the academic community met to discuss new and ongoing programs in security science. The presentations emphasized a broad range of topics including computing architectures, networks, software engineering practices, models of human interaction and behavior, organizational models, and evaluation methodologies.

For the past three years, the National Security Agency (NSA) and US Government have been partnering with academia to create a research community dedicated to the Science of Security (SoS). More recently, NSA made a strong commitment to this venture by giving almost three hundred departments at universities the opportunity to receive funding to develop “Lablets” in partnership with private industry and NSA.

The government is sponsoring this survey to identify research currently being done in the Science of Security (SoS) as well as research that might apply to the Science of Security.

The results of the survey will be used to build a Science of Security community, to nurture and foster research being done in the discipline, and to identify centers and labs that are leading the way in specific research areas. Survey results will also help the Government determine where best to apply Federal resources to influence relevant research and close identifiable gaps.

The July 2013 issue of the Technology Innovation Management Review focused on the theme of Cybersecurity. This is the first of two issues covering the editorial theme of Cybersecurity. The July and August issues of the TIM Review provide articles that conrtibute practial experience and academic knowledge that can help Canadians and their allies around the world to benefit from a secure cyberspace.

Four new schools have been selected for the National Security Agency's National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cyber Operations Program, which was designed to cultivate more U.S. cyber professionals in an ever-changing global environment.

The latest issue of The Next Wave; The National Security Agency's review of emerging technologies, centered around building a national program for cybersecurity science.

This Request For Comments (RFC) is issued by the Cyber Security and Information Assurance Research and Development Senior Steering Group (SSG) of the Federal Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program. The SSG is preparing a report to provide an update on technological developments in Federal cybersecurity research and development since the release of the 2011 Federal Cybersecurity Research and Development Strategic Plan (the strategic plan).

UCL Cyber Security Research Institute is the UK's first academic research institute to put cybersecurity on a scientific basis. The institute is focused on giving organisations more evidence, to allow them to make better decisions, aiding to the development of cybersecurity as a science.

This is the site of the Science of Security Virtual Organization.

Review the results from the first SaTC ONLINE Cyber Cafe, designed to identify critical issues in cybersecurity and encourage collaborative research between computer science and the social sciences. See this link for more information.

An recent issue of The Next Wave; The National Security Agency's review of emerging technologies, highlighted the science of cybersecurity.

North Carolina State University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Carnegie Mellon University are each receiving an initial $2.5 million in grant funds from the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) to stimulate the creation of a more scientific basis for the design and analysis of trusted systems.

The co-principal investigators for the NC State Science of Security Lablet are Dr. Laurie Williams, professor of computer science, and Dr. Michael Rappa, director of the Institute of Advanced Analytics and professor of computer science.