OmniSOC Con 2024 is March 26-28, and it’s packed with incredible sessions, workshops, panel discussions, and networking. Registration is filling up, so register today to save your seat. The conference is open to all higher education and research security and technology professionals such as CIOs, CISOs, CTOs, senior directors, directors of information security and information… Read more »
Tag: Cybersecurity
Welcome University of California, Santa Cruz
“I look forward to our partnership with UC Santa Cruz and helping them in their fight against cybersecurity threats,” said Susan Sons, executive director of OmniSOC. “By partnering, our aim is to more quickly be aware of cybersecurity threats anywhere and mitigate the risk for all members with a much faster response.” About UC Santa… Read more »
Welcome Lehigh Carbon Community College
LCCC the first community college to partner with OmniSOC Lehigh Carbon Community College (LCCC), which serves three counties in eastern Pennsylvania, has partnered with OmniSOC, the shared, collaborative higher education security operations center (SOC) led by Indiana University. OmniSOC provides 24/7 network security monitoring for its networks, conducts proactive threat hunting, and cybersecurity advisory services…. Read more »
Welcome Purdue University
Purdue has renewed its partnership with OmniSOC, the premier higher education security operations center. Founded in 1869, Purdue University is a member of the Association of American Universities, as one of the country’s top research institutions. Purdue’s system-wide options include distinct educational opportunities for students throughout the state and across the globe. One such example… Read more »
Susan Sons named executive director for OmniSOC
Susan Sons has been named executive director for OmniSOC, the shared cybersecurity operations center for higher education and research led by Indiana University (IU). She reports to Aaron Neal, IU deputy chief information officer. Sons has been serving in an interim capacity since July 1. Previously, Sons was a chief security analyst at IU’s Center… Read more »
Join us Aug 4 for a ResearchSOC webinar
You are invited to attend a ResearchSOC webinar: Effective Cybersecurity for Research on August 4 at 2pm ET. What: Webinar | Effective Cybersecurity for Research When: August 4, 2pm ET Where: Zoom (register below) Abstract The tension between cybersecurity and researchers has long hampered attempts to secure research. It is also why institutional cybersecurity efforts in academia… Read more »
Webinar | Proxywar-e: detecting malicious code in websites
What: Webinar | Proxywar-e: detecting malicious code in websites When: June 23, 2pm ET Where: Zoom (register below) You are invited to attend ResearchSOC’s first webinar of the summer: Proxywar-e: detecting malicious code in websites on June 23 at 2pm ET. Abstract For the past two years, Duke faculty member David Hoffman, students, and the… Read more »
ResearchSOC merges with OmniSOC to take on greater cybersecurity challenges
The Research Security Operations Center (ResearchSOC) was funded by the NSF in 2018 to provide cybersecurity as a service focused on NSF large facilities research projects. Its mission began as a collaborative security response center whose expertise and resources are leveraged by the entire research and education community to improve the cybersecurity posture of scientific… Read more »
Defending against malicious code embedded in legitimate websites
Richard Biever is Duke University’s chief information security officer. Gagan Kaur is a data scientist at Duke University. The problem Security teams have the unenviable task of protecting large, complex, and diverse environments. Areas of focus typically center on protecting an internal network and today, cloud environments. Security infrastructure such as intrusion prevention/detection, firewalls, log… Read more »
Tension in Ukraine: Mitigating Effects on Higher Education
Our colleagues at REN-ISAC have created a guidance document for mitigating possible follow-on incidents because of the Ukraine situation. As tensions continue to escalate between Russia and the Ukraine, we as information security professionals need to take immediate steps to review, test, and upgrade our incident response practices in preparation for a possible nation-state sponsored attack. Nation-state actors have… Read more »