SETS successfully hosted the Colloquium on Advanced Cyber Security Research (CACSR 2026) as part of its 25th Foundation Day celebrations. From 34 research papers received across emerging cybersecurity domains, 11 were shortlisted for final presentation and evaluation by an eminent jury. The Best Paper Award was presented to Pradeep Singh and Om Pal from University of Delhi for their work, “Quartz: Quantum Safe Authentication Framework with Zero Trust Architecture for Resource-Constrained IoT.