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 »
Tag: Cybersecurity
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 »
Inaugural internship program changes students’ futures
By Virgil Giles and Greg Moore This summer, OmniSOC began its inaugural eight-week summer internship program, hosting 10 students from IU, Rutgers University, and the University of Nebraska system. The internship program started on the Bloomington campus, where students spent four weeks becoming acquainted with operations at all levels. They finished out the experience at… Read more »
OmniSOC wins 2019 Campus Technology Impact Award
Campus Technology, one of higher education’s top online information sources, has announced that the IU-led OmniSOC has been selected as the 2019 Campus Technology Impact Award winner in the IT Infrastructure and Systems category. OmniSOC is a shared, 24x7x365 cybersecurity operations center for higher education. OmniSOC is a pioneering initiative that helps reduce the time from first… Read more »
Training tomorrow’s cyber warriors: OmniSOC rolls out summer internship program
This summer, OmniSOC began its inaugural eight-week summer internship program, hosting 10 students from IU, Rutgers University, and University of Nebraska—Lincoln. The internship program started on the Bloomington campus, where students spent four weeks becoming acquainted with operations at all levels. They finished out the experience at their home institutions, working with their local IT… 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 »
Kouper, Sons take on new roles in ResearchSOC
Two members of the ResearchSOC team have assumed new roles. Inna Kouper is now Director of Researcher Engagement. Inna is the interim director of the Indiana University Data to Insight Center and assistant research scientist at the IU School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering. Inna’s research focuses on knowledge production and dissemination, with a particular… Read more »
Cybersecurity for research: it’s a different animal altogether
A quick Internet search for cybersecurity solutions will yield many pages of results, with dozens of commercial firms happy to secure networks, email servers, and other enterprise cyberinfrastructure. So why then is it so difficult to find workable cybersecurity solutions for open science research projects, especially projects such as those conducted by universities and government… Read more »