Update: the talk has bee posted to YouTube. The slides have been archived.
Von Welch will be presenting the talk, "Cybersecurity to Enable Science: Hindsight & Vision from the NSF Cybersecurity Center of Excellence," at the NCSA on Thursday, May 30th at 10am Central at the NCSA Auditorium. Von is the director of Trusted CI, which is a collaborative partnership with Indiana University, NCSA, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Internet2, and Berkeley Lab.
Read the full event details here. We are streaming the presentation online if you are not able to attend in person.
Abstract: How can cybersecurity play an enabling role in scientific research? This talk describes the first five years of experience from NSF Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, its vision for the next five, and its take on how cybersecurity supports scientific integrity, reproducibility, and productivity.
Speaker Bio: Von Welch has been enabling scientific research through cybersecurity for over twenty years. He serves as the Director and PI for the NSF Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (Trusted CI) and for the recently announced NSF-funded Research Security Operations Center (ResearchSOC). At Indiana University he is the Director of the Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research (CACR) and an Associate Director for the IU Pervasive Technology Institute.
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Security Operations Manager James Eyrich gave the second of a series of security talks to NCSA staff today. The presentation focused on instructions for setting up NCSA DUO and LastPass accounts. The presentation also included a demonstration from Innovative Technology Services's Tim Dudek on how to reset your NCSA password. Slides, including step-by-step instructions for setting up DUO and LastPass, are available in PDF below.
Setting up NCSA Duo (2019)
Setting up NCSA LastPass (2019)
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Illinois graduate student Shreya Udhani has recently authored a paper with College of Engineering’s Masooda Bashir and NCSA’s Alexander Withers. The paper, "Human vs Bots: Detecting Human Attacks in a Honeypot Environment,” has been accepted at the 7th International Symposium on Digital Forensic and Security (ISDFS). Shreya is a student research programmer with NCSA’s Cybersecurity and Networking Division. The paper analyzes an SSH-based Honeypot deployed over a period of 423 days to identify human behavior traits which can essentially distinguish an automated attacker and a human attacker. The honeypot used in the experiment is part of the Science DMZ Actionable Intelligence Appliance (SDAIA), created here at NCSA.