CTSC presents half-day workshop at PEARC17

On Thursday July 13th, CTSC held a workshop on trustworthy scientific cyberinfrastructure at PEARC 2017 in New Orleans. CTSC PI Von Welch Started the day with an overview of NSF Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, including CTSC’s mission, vision, and engagements. Co-PI James Marsteller introduced the cybersecurity challenges for smaller projects and its impact on science, followed by Co-PI Jim Basney presenting the key aspects that define a cybersecurity program.

In the second session, XSEDE’s Nancy Wilkins-Diehr introduced the Science Gateways Community Institute (SGCI), which was established to provide solutions for sustaining science gateways. Von followed with a presentation on security for science gateways, concentrating on three key aspects: secure software development, identity and access control management, and operational cybersecurity. The remainder of the session was dedicated to lightning talks from workshop attendees. Internet2’s Florence Hudson presented on cybersecurity research transition to practice (TTP) acceleration; a concept aimed at accelerating transitions from NSF-funded late-stage cybersecurity research into research and education environments. Tom Barton (also of Internet2) discussed the globally federated system and what support is needed for research activities. He presented a summary of the current state of eduGAIN, which connects different national federation systems across the globe. And lastly, University of Pittsburgh’s Brian Stengel presented the NSF project Towards Security Assured Cyberinfrastructure in Pennsylvania (SAC-PA), which brings PA-based campus CI-practitioners, IT, and security professionals together to facilitate beneficial relationships in the region.

Slides from the workshop, as well as many more CTSC training materials, are available on our website.

CTSC’s Situational Awareness Expanding Collaborations

In an attempt to improve on the security alert service CTSC offers, the Situational Awareness (SA) group within CTSC has recently expanded its monitoring streams and collaborations to include Open Science Grid (OSG) and the European Grid Infrastructure’s Software Vulnerability Group (EGI: SVG). These entities join CTSC’s current collaborations with REN-ISAC and XSEDE in mutually sharing advisories. The immediate benefit of this effort is that CTSC and its collaborators have increased their monitoring channels, enabling a larger window to survey for potential threats to science cyberinfrastructure. This improvement in shared knowledge will better position us, as well as our new partners, to pass on the important alerts to our communities.

To register for CTSC SA advisories, see https://trustedci.org/situational-awareness.

If you're a member of a trust community that would like to share alerts with CTSC, please contact us at alerts@trustedci.org.

CCoE Webinar July 25 11am EDT: XSEDE Information Sharing

CTSC's James Marsteller will be presenting the webinar, "XSEDE Information Sharing," on July 25th at 11am (EDT).

Please register here.

The Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) is the most advanced, powerful, and robust collection of integrated advanced digital resources and services in the world. It is a single virtual system that scientists can use to interactively share computing resources, data, and expertise. This session will provide an overview of the XSEDE information security program used to protect information and assets for the $121 million dollar project. Focus areas will include information sharing, policies and procedures, incident response and security awareness training.

More information about this presentation and speaker bio are on the event page.

Presentations will be recorded and include time for questions with the audience.

Join CTSC's discuss mailing list for information about upcoming events. To submit topics or requests to present, contact us here. Archived presentations are available on our site under "Past Events."

And, we want to remind the community that CTSC is hosting The 2016 NSF Cybersecurity Summit for Large Facilities and Cyberinfrastructure on August 16th - 18th in Arlington, VA. For more information, see the summit event page.