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  • ISEF Winners Announced for NSA Research Directorate Award
    The 2015 NSA Research Directorate Award was presented to three research projects at the 2015 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair on May 14th, 2015. The NSA Research Award at ISEF recognizes outstanding scientific accomplishment in…
  • NSA Research Directorate Special Award Organization at Intel Science & Engineering Fair
    The National Security Agency Research Directorate is sponsoring a special award at the Intel International Science & Engineering Fair in Science of Security.  The award is to recognize high school students who's research reflect the principles…
  • Microsoft Ending Patch Tuesday
    With the release of windows 10, Microsoft will be ending the monthly patch release schedule. The  new version will support more security patches being released more quickly. Microsoft is releasing tools to help corporate users.   http://www.…
  • Interest in Cybersecurity Science & Research Heats Up
    UIUC Lablet hosted HotSoS 2015 on April 21-22 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign National Center for Supercomputing Applications.  Interest in Cybersecurity Science and Resarch were hot topics at this Symposium and Bootcamp on the…
  • DARPA Releases BAA for Brandeis
    DARPA annouced the BAA (request for proposals) for their Brandeis Initiative.  Brandeis is a privacy centered initiative that works on foundation privacy research. One aspect is developing methods for a consumer to choose and technology enforce…
  • NSA Research Director Discusses Science of Security
    In the March issue of Signal Magazine, NSA Research Director, Dr. Deborah A. Frincke, discusses three important research areas for NSA Research.  Within one of these priorities is the Science of Security.  http://www.afcea.org/content/?q=node/…
  • SecUrity and REsilience for Cyber-Physical Systems (SURE) Review
    On March 17 and 18, 2015, researchers from the four System Science of SecUrity and REsilience for Cyber-Physical Systems (SURE) project universities (Vanderbilt, Hawaii, California-Berkeley, and MIT) met with members of NSA's R2 Directorate to review…
  • New Report on Measuring Computer and Security Expertise
    Researchers at Indiana University released a technical report that contributes to the Science of Security by providing instruments to measure computer and security expertise of participants. They also provide the rationale for developing the measuring…
  • Insight to Modern Cyber Threat Intelligence
    This article provides expert insights to modern cyber threat intelligence without marketing material or vendor fluff to give readers a better understanding of this complex but critical area of cyber defense. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/insights-modern…
  • Lablet Quarterly Meeting exchanged research and technical discussions on SoS and the five Hard Problems in cybersecurity
    For a brief summary of the two day quarterly Science of Security Lablet meeting, sponsored by NSA, see the SoS Newlsetter initial summary at: http://cps-vo.org/node/17559. The session was hosted by the Lablet at the North Carolina State University on…