Forum on Cyber Resilience
The Forum on Cyber Resilience serves as an independent, trusted venue in which experts from industry, academia, and government can work collaboratively to explore emerging critical challenges related to the security, trustworthiness, and resilience of the nation's computing, communications systems, and critical infrastructures. Blending expertise in technology, policy, national security, and the law, the Forum convenes senior representatives and serves both as a readily available source of insight and expertise and as a body committed to anticipating and thinking about future trends. Forum activities inform stakeholders through convenings, dialogues, and published workshop summaries and through engagements with consensus study committees.
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News and Updates
Upcoming Event: Artificial Intelligence for Software Engineering
Update
The National Academies will hold a convening to identify research priorities for AI-enabled software engineering on June 29 - 30, 2026. The meeting will explore how generative AI is being used to develop software in both commercial and government settings, as well as the potential risks and new threat vectors that may emerge as these technologies are deployed at scale.
Securing AI Systems: Experts Consider Research Priorities at April Event
Program News
Experts in cybersecurity and artificial intelligence recently gathered at the National Academies to examine AI security, how existing cybersecurity tools and practices can be adapted, and emerging risks in high-impact applications such as scientific research, drug discovery, and financial services. Speakers from various organizations including Microsoft, Meta, Qualcomm, and Security Superintelligence Labs explored priorities as the use of AI-enabled systems increases.
Description
The Forum on Cyber Resilience would facilitate and enhance the exchange of ideas among scientists, practitioners, and policy makers concerned with urgent and important issues related to the resilience of the nation’s computing and communications systems, including the Internet, various critical infrastructures, commercial systems, and so on. Resilience is meant to encompass not only security in the face of attacks, resistance to degradation, and the ability to recover from adverse events but also the capacity for innovation and adaptation and the ability to absorb rapid technological disruption in a way that reflects the values--such as privacy--and needs of the infrastructure’s many stakeholders. The focus of the Forum is accordingly expected to be two-pronged: traditional notions of cybersecurity, trustworthiness, and reliability of large-scale systems blended with considerations of the need to afford opportunities for innovation and respect for stakeholder values, needs, and priorities.
The Forum will hold meetings to engage in dialogue and discussion with the following goals:
- Improve cyber resilience and the strength and vitality of our information and communications infrastructure;
- Facilitate and enhance the exchange of ideas among scientists, practitioners, and policy makers concerned with urgent and important issues related to cyber resilience and sustaining a vibrant and effective information and communications infrastructure; and
- Identify and engage the key challenges and opportunities for achieving greater cyber resilience and a more robust information and communications infrastructure that maintains room for continued innovation and reflects the values and needs of its many, diverse stakeholders.
All activities of the Forum will be conducted in accordance with institutional guidelines described in "Roundtables: Policy and Procedures."
Contributors
Committee
Chair
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William B. Martin
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Radia J. Perlman
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Jon Boyens
Ex Officio Member
Julie Chua
Ex Officio Member
Ex Officio Member
Sponsors
Department of Defense
National Institute of Standards and Technology
National Science Foundation
Staff
Tho Nguyen
Lead
Gabrielle Risica
Lead
Shenae Bradley
