Blog from September, 2019

NCSA's CyberSecurity Division is hiring a research scientist. Join our team to work on cutting edge software and projects that help secure cyberinfrastructure for national and international science and engineering research communities. To view full post and apply, click the corresponding link below. 

Research Scientist - National Center for Supercomputing Applications (111608)

NCSA's Cybersecurity and Networking Division (CSND) will be working on a newly announced project called FABRIC. FABRIC is "a unique national research infrastructure to enable cutting-edge and exploratory research at-scale in networking, cybersecurity, distributed computing and storage systems, machine learning, and science applications." In a press release announcing the project, CSND's David Wheeler said, “Through supporting a FABRIC Edge node with our high capacity Wide Area Network to the nationwide infrastructure, this is a great opportunity for the University of Illinois, NCSA, and XSEDE to participate in the advancement of networks and services to further discovery.”

More details about FABRIC, including NCSA's unique role in the project, are available in the NCSA press release.

NCSA's CyberSecurity Division is hiring an assistant security analyst and a security analyst. Join our team to work on cutting edge software and projects that help secure cyberinfrastructure for national and international science and engineering research communities. To view full post and apply, click the corresponding link below. 

Assistant Security Analyst- National Center for Supercomputing Applications (116030)
Close Date: Oct 08, 2019

Security Analyst / Senior Security Analyst- National Center for Supercomputing Applications (115893)
Close Date: Oct 08, 2019

Indiana University's Scott Russel presented the talk, "Learning Security's First Principles with the Super Mario Bros." Scott is a Senior Policy Analyst at the IU's Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research and is also a member of Trusted CI. The Principles are designed to help security and non-security people communicate and think critically about security. Scott used the Mario Brothers video game series as a relatable and humorous analogy on how to apply the Principles to a security problem.

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