Trusted CI Experiences in Cybersecurity and Service to Open Science

This article describes experiences and lessons learned from the Trusted CI project, funded by the US National Science Foundation to serve the community as the NSF Cybersecurity Center of Excellence. Trusted CI is an effort to address cybersecurity for the open science community through a single organization that provides leadership, training, consulting, and knowledge to that community. The article describes the experiences and lessons learned of Trusted CI regarding both cybersecurity for open science and managing the process of providing centralized services to a broad and diverse community.Comment: 8 pages, PEARC '19: Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing, July 28-August 1, 2019, Chicago, IL, US

Trusted CI Webinar: "How worried should I be?": The worst question we keep asking about research cybersecurity with Susan Sons

Susan Sons, Deputy Director of the Research Security Operations Center (ResearchSOC) will provide a mini threat briefing (a brief brief) and a broader discussion on how the research cybersecurity community approaches threat intelligence when we're at our best, and when we're at our worst. Please join us and bring your questions! Speaker Bio: Susan serves as Deputy Director of ResearchSOC and Chief Security Analyst of IU's Center of Applied Cybersecurity Research. She has a slight obsession with improving software engineering practices and the security of ICS/SCADA assets. Known vulnerabilities: Can be bribed with dark chocolate.NSF Grant # 1920430NSF Grant # 1840034Ope

Trusted CI webinar: Securing Scientific Cyberinfrastructure: The ResearchSOC

The research and education (R&E) community faces particular challenges regarding cybersecurity: diversity of size and autonomy, the use of diverse infrastructure (scientific instruments, sensor networks, sequencers, etc.), the highly collaborative and dynamic nature of scientific communities, and the specialized expertise needed to support cybersecurity in the research context. This webinar provides an overview of the ResearchSOC, which provides the R&E community with cybersecurity services, training, and information sharing needed to make scientific cyberinfrastructure resilient to cyberattacks and capable of supporting trustworthy, productive research. The ResearchSOC leverages existing cybersecurity services from Indiana University, Duke University, and the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. It combines these operational services with the establishment of a community of practice for sharing best practices, lessons learned, and operational intelligence. The ResearchSOC couples these services with outreach and training, targeted at research projects and the higher education information security community, to educate them on information security for research. This webinar is ideal for technology managers supporting scientific research projects.NSF #1547272NSF #1840034Ope

Cybersecurity for Science

Presentation at ARCC Workshop held at PEARC17. July 10th, 2017