Google Drive security: challenges and solutions August 26, 3-4pm Eastern This webinar will briefly cover the contents of the white paper by Ishan Abhinit and Mark Krenz of Indiana University’s Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research (CACR) on security issues related to Google Drive. In this paper, the authors enumerate the security-related issues encountered while using… Read more »
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OmniSOC joins forces with counterparts in Australia, Canada, and the UK to prevent and mitigate cyberattacks
Cybercrime does not respect international borders, and there are often strong similarities in the method of attacks seen in different countries. ResearchSOC partner, OmniSOC, will join sister organizations in Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom in a new cybersecurity threat intelligence-sharing partnership. Using MISP, the open-source threat intelligence platform used world-wide by more than 6,000 organizations,… Read more »
Join ResearchSOC, Trusted CI, and other partners at EDUCAUSE CPP Conference
Members of ResearchSOC, Trusted CI, CACR, and other partner projects will be presenting at the 2021 EDUCAUSE Cybersecurity and Privacy Professionals Conference. The Conference runs Tuesday, June 8th through Thursday, June 10th. and will “focus on restoring, evolving, and transforming cybersecurity and privacy in higher education.” Presentations include: Big Security on Small Budgets: Stories from… Read more »
OmniSOC Year 3 Event recordings features panel on ResearchSOC
Recorded sessions from the OmniSOC Year 3 Virtual Event, featuring the panel “A SOC supporting scientific research initial lessons and insight from the ResearchSOC experience” are now available on YouTube. The playlist of the event’s nine sessions includes: “Welcome and state of the OmniSOC,” a live stream and virtual “fireside chat” with IU Vice President for Information Technology and CIO Rob Lowden and Associate Vice… Read more »
ResearchSOC partner takes top honors in virtual cybersecurity competition
OmniSOC, security operations center for ResearchSOC, wins Elastic Security Capture the Flag event by Gregory Moore At high noon on December 7, 2020, members of Indiana University’s OmniSOC Security Engineering Team faced off against cybersecurity teams from colleges and universities across the country in a Capture the Flag (CTF) cybersecurity competition sponsored by Elastic. OmniSOC provides trusted and actionable… Read more »
Workshop preview: Cybersecurity Engagement in a Research Environment
A free workshop for researcher-facing cybersecurity professionals sponsored by the ResearchSOC and National Science Foundation December 8-10, 2020, virtually via Zoom and Slack (US Pacific Standard Time) Registration for the December workshop is closed. We thank the community for the overwhelming response! Please complete the form to be waitlisted and/or provide us your input on an… 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 »
“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 »