An on-demand video of the National Science Foundation Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (Trusted CI) webinar “Securing Scientific Cyber Infrastructure: The ResearchSOC” is now available on the Trusted CI website. The video can be viewed here.
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.
The webinar provided 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 to provide cybersecurity for some of the world’s greatest research projects. 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.
The presentation was led by ResearchSOC Director and Principal Investigator Von Welch, Indiana University. Also presenting were Inna Kouper, Indiana University, Richard Biever, Duke University; James A Marsteller, Jr., Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center; Michael Corn, University of California, San Diego; and Susan Sons, Indiana University. Learn more about the ResearchSOC team here.
The Research Security Operations Center (ResearchSOC) is a collaborative security response center that addresses the unique cybersecurity concerns of the research community. ResearchSOC helps make scientific computing resilient to cyberattacks and capable of supporting trustworthy, productive research. For more information on the ResearchSOC, visit our website or email rsoc@iu.edu.
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