Trusted CI and the Research Infrastructure Security Community Respond to NSF’s Draft Research Infrastructure Guide

 

Trusted CI, in collaboration with the Research Infrastructure Security Community (RISC), submitted comments to the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) regarding Section 5.3 of NSF’s 2025 draft Research Infrastructure Guide (RIG). These comments offer the community’s perspective on the NSF’s proposed new guidance for Major Facilities and Mid-Scales on building their cybersecurity programs.

RISC is a community of practice built by Trusted CI for NSF-funded cybersecurity professionals. RISC is composed of graduates from the Trusted CI Framework Cohort Program, who continue to gather as a community to expand their cybersecurity knowledge, share experiences, and build relationships.

For more information, please contact us at info@trustedci.org.

Trusted CI helps FABRIC build secure scientific infrastructure

Trusted CI has posted a new success story on its collaboration with FABRIC, a national-scale testbed that is providing a new research infrastructure enabling scientists to share massive amounts of data. As FABRIC was being built in 2021, project leaders turned to Trusted CI, the NSF Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, to ensure they designed security into the project from the beginning. FABRIC continues its involvement with Trusted CI as a member of the Research Infrastructure Security Community. The cohort offers an opportunity to share challenges and solutions with others in the same research space. 

Trusted CI Webinar: NSF's 2025 Research Infrastructure Guide: Information Assurance, Monday May 20th @ 11am Eastern

NSF's Michael Corn is presenting the talk, NSF's 2025 Research Infrastructure Guide: Information Assurance, on May 20th at 11am Eastern time.

Please register here.

NSF's major facilities represent some of the most significant research facilities on the globe. The forthcoming revision to the Research Infrastructure Guide (or RIG) details NSF's guidance on securing these facilities and its expectations for cybersecurity programs at the major facilities. This presentation will explain how we approached shaping this guidance, the unique challenges we faced, and offer a peek at some of the resulting guidance the revised RIG will provide.

Speaker Bio: Michael Corn has been a CISO at four institutions (UIUC, Illinois System, Brandeis University, and most recently UC San Diego). A regular author on a variety of privacy, cybersecurity and identity related topics, he is currently the Cybersecurity Advisor for Research Infrastructure in the Office of the Chief Officer for Research Facilities and additionally provides support to the Office of the Chief of Research Security Strategy and Policy within NSF. A recent online presentation on cybersecurity policy can be found at https://bit.ly/3JIpI8w.

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