Walk before you run: Baseline controls and paths to cybersecurity maturity By Gregory Moore Are you a seasoned IT pro who’s been tasked with handling security for your organization? Are you a brand-new CISO awash in a sea of security products and vendors? Or maybe you (finally!) received additional resources and management’s approval to “do… Read more »
Tag: Cybersecurity
Preview: vulnerability scanning workshop with Ken Goodwin
Ken Goodwin and Richard Biever will present at the 2020 NSF Cybersecurity Summit By Gregory Moore Ken Goodwin, director of networking, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC), and Richard Biever, Duke University’s chief information security officer and director of identity management, will be presenting Both Sides of the Looking Glass: How Vulnerability Scanning and Honeypots Can Work Together in Proactive Cybersecurity Operations at the upcoming 2020 NSF Cybersecurity Summit for… Read more »
Preview: vulnerability scanning workshop with Richard Biever
Richard Biever and Ken Goodwin will present at the 2020 NSF Cybersecurity Summit By Gregory Moore Richard Biever is Duke University’s chief information security officer and director of identity management. He and Ken Goodwin, director of networking, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, will be presenting Both Sides of the Looking Glass: How Vulnerability Scanning and Honeypots Can Work Together in Proactive Cybersecurity Operations at the upcoming 2020 NSF Cybersecurity Summit… Read more »
Protecting Earth Science Research
By Gregory Moore The Geodetic Facility for the Advancement of Geoscience (GAGE) is now using the services of the Research Security Operations Center (ResearchSOC) to help protect and detect threats to its instruments and data. UNAVCO, a non-profit university-governed consortium, facilitates geoscience research and education using geodesy—the study of Earth’s shape, gravity field, and rotation. Since 2013, UNAVCO has operated the national… Read more »
Securing Virtual workshops in the age of Zoombombing
Security measures helped keep CI/CS Workshop attendees safe By Gregory Moore On August 18 and 20, 2020, ResearchSOC and CI CoE Pilot co-hosted the 2020 Cyberinfrastructure/Cybersecurity (CI/CS) Workshop, a virtual training event for cybersecurity and cyberinfrastructure professionals. Zalak Shah is a senior security analyst and deputy chief information security officer at Indiana University’s Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research (CACR) and oversaw the two-day event as the security officer. As with all online… Read more »
Preview: How to devise a network monitoring strategy
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 20, Mark Krenz, ResearchSOC, Indiana University, and Scott Orr, OmniSOC, Indiana University, will present How to devise a network monitoring strategy,… Read more »
Cyberinfrastructure/Cybersecurity Workshop Preview
Focused on the special needs of the research and education community, ResearchSOC webinars and workshops provide on-demand, how-to training for cyberinfrastructure and cybersecurity professionals supporting open science research projects. On August 18 and 20, ResearchSOC (the NSF Security Operations Center) and CI CoE Pilot (the NSF Cyberinfrastructure Center of Excellence Pilot) will host the 2020 Cyberinfrastructure/Cybersecurity Workshop, a… 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 14th at 2pm ET. This presentation is part of ESnet’s series of CI Brownbag talks. Cybersecurity for research has a… Read more »