By Gregory Moore, Focused on the special needs of the research and education community, ResearchSOC webinars and workshops provide on-demand, how-to training for IT and cybersecurity professionals supporting open science research projects. On August 18, Mark Krenz, ResearchSOC, Indiana University, and Ishan Abhinit, Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research, Indiana University, will present a workshop, Security log analysis…. Read more »
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Keeping the mysteries of the universe safe from hackers
By Gregory Moore IU-led ResearchSOC now provides cybersecurity for NRAO’s deep-space discoveries The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) has engaged the services of the Research Security Operations Center (ResearchSOC) to understand and detect threats to their instruments and data. A virtual center funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and led by Indiana University (IU),… Read more »
ASSERT: Using machine learning to aid in the fight against cyberattacks
By Gregory Moore ResearchSOC has a unique role in helping make scientific infrastructure resilient to and capable of supporting trustworthy, productive research. Since ResearchSOC relies on OmniSOC services that include cyber threat intelligence, proactive threat hunting, and monitoring and triaging security events, ResearchSOC would benefit greatly from enhanced threat detection. In 2019 Indiana University’s Center… Read more »
Strategies for better incident response – a webinar preview
By Gregory Moore Focused on the special needs of the research and education community, ResearchSOC webinars provide on-demand, how-to training for IT and cybersecurity professionals supporting open science research projects. On June 25, 3pm ET, Josh Drake will present: “Strategies for better incident response.” We spoke with Drake about his goals for the webinar. I had been… Read more »
TrustedCI offering priority help to projects tackling COVID-19
Our friends at Trusted CI (ResearchSOC’s sister organization), the NSF Cyberinfrastructure Center of Excellence Pilot, and the Science Gateways Community Institute are all available to help the science community tackle research to address the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak. If your project could benefit from expert cyberinfrastructure consulting in: data management and visualization, workflow management,… Read more »
OmniSOC, Colleges Build a Stronger Defense, Together
EdTech magazine, which focuses on higher education, wrote up a nice story about our partners at the OmniSOC. EdTech reported at the annual EDUCAUSE conference where OmniSOC staff discussed how CISOs and CIOs collaborate to mitigate cyber risk, among other topics. A key point of the article is how OmniSOC works together with local, on-campus… Read more »
Testing risk scenarios at the ResearchSOC using DETERLab
By Gregory Moore Mike Stanfield is a senior security analyst in the Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research (CACR). In the context of this post, Mike is also project liaison for the ResearchSOC. Mike oversees the technical integration with ResearchSOC partners and clients. The DETER project (cyber DEfense Technology Experimental Research) helps address the critical strategic… Read more »
Webinar: NSF Resources for Research Cybersecurity: Trusted CI and ResearchSOC
Note: this announcement was originally posted on Trusted CI’s website. Trusted CI Director Von Welch and ResearchSOC Deputy Director Susan Sons will present “NSF Resources for Research Cybersecurity: Trusted CI and ResearchSOC,” on Friday June 14 at 2pm ET. This presentation is part of ESnet’s series of CI Brownbag talks. Cybersecurity for research has a… Read more »
“Securing and Supporting Research Projects: Facilitation Design Patterns” slides available
In case you missed the above workshop at EDUCAUSE SPC (and you may well have missed it—the workshop filled up early, had a long wait list, and was almost standing room only), the slides from “Securing and Supporting Research Projects: Facilitation Design Patterns” are now available. Presented by Michael Corn (CISO, UCSD) and Cyd Burrows-Schilling… Read more »
ResearchSOC launches Community of Practice at Ask.CI
The Research Security Operations Center (ResearchSOC) has partnered with Ask.CI, the Q & A and discussion platform for all things cyberinfrastructure (CI), to create a new community and learning platform for those working to secure cyberinfrastructure crucial to open science. Ask.CI provides a centralized, searchable, archived mechanism to aggregate expert knowledge that is distributed throughout… Read more »