Strengthening Research Security/ Webinar #research #security #university

Strengthening Research Security- how growing national security concerns impact institutional transparency, international collaboration, and high-risk entity exposure.
Kharon and Digital Science’s experts examine the compliance and due diligence implications for your organization.

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Duration: About 30 minutes
Recorded on: Thursday, January 22, 2026

Co-host: Digital Science

About this webinar:
"Strengthening Research Security: Introducing the Kharon and Digital Science Partnership"

The research security landscape is evolving rapidly. As national security concerns grow, institutions face increasing expectations for transparency, due diligence, and responsible international collaboration.

To help institutions meet these challenges with confidence, Kharon and Digital Science have joined forces. The partnership unites Kharon intelligence with the Dimensions Research Security platform, creating a unified solution that provides deeper visibility into affiliations, global relationships, and potential exposure to high-risk entities. With integrated insight and contextual risk analytics, institutions can streamline due diligence, strengthen compliance workflows, and stay focused on advancing research.

In this webinar, experts from Kharon and Digital Science explore the key forces shaping the research security landscape, walk through real-world use cases, and demonstrate how the integrated solution supports more efficient and informed decisions around risk tolerance, due diligence, and exposure.

Speakers
Ethan Woolley
Global Director of Strategy
Kharon

Heidi Becker
Product Manager, Dimensions Research Security
Digital Science

-In Context-
Navigating the New Research Security Mandates
Universities face dual pressures to effectively safeguard research integrity while also maintaining the open academic collaboration that has long enabled research and development leadership throughout the world.

Many institutions still struggle to balance these competing demands effectively, especially as new research security mandates like the U.S. NSPM-33 (which applies to institutions receiving $50 million or more in federal funding), as well as Canada’s Sensitive Technology Research and Affiliations of Concern (STRAC) Policy and Named Research Organizations (NRO) list introduce additional compliance requirements.
The Importance of Research Security — and Why It’s Under Scrutiny
As global scientific collaboration increases, so do concerns about the misuse of academic partnerships and the leakage of sensitive research. At the heart of this issue lies research security, which the OECD has defined as “preventing undesirable foreign state or non-state interference with research.” Per the OECD’s June 2022 policy paper titled Integrity and Security in the Global Research Ecosystem, “the main goal of research security is to protect the research ecosystem and thus protect legitimate national and economic interests.”

In the U.S., research security has become a national priority. The U.S. government is worried about foreign influence on federally funded research and the potential for misuse and exploitation of American research and intellectual property. Agencies such as the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Science Foundation (NSF), Department of Energy (DOE), Department of Defense (DoD), and the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) have all issued guidance and implemented new policies to establish clearer compliance expectations for institutions.

Other nations, including Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom, are taking similar steps to safeguard research from foreign interference. In Australia, the government has issued a series of frameworks to manage national security risks in academia, including the Australian Research Council (ARC) Countering Foreign Interference Framework and the List of Critical Technologies in the National Interest. Canada’s policy links federal funding eligibility to screenings for sensitive research areas and foreign affiliations of concern. In the U.K., updated guidance from the National Protective Security Authority and expanded support from the Research Collaboration Advice Team help institutions assess and respond to risks tied to international partnerships. Together, these efforts reflect a growing global consensus around the importance of research security.

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