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Accessibility to cyberinfrastructure is absolutely necessary to the productivity of the nation's scientific and engineering community, but such accessibility means effectively addressing and preventing system vulnerabilities. As a result, NCSA has developed broad and deep expertise in detecting and responding to attacks and intrusions of all sorts. With decades of experience designing and deploying systems that meet stringent cybersecurity requirements for serving a diverse, national scientific community, NCSA is a recognized leader in both local site and distributed systems security. NCSA's CyberSecurity research and operations are funded primarily through federal grants from the National Science Foundation and the Department of Homeland Security.

NCSA has a long history of exploring and researching new ways to protect systems--and the researchers who use them--from cyberattacks. We've led the development of MyProxy, software that enables users to securely manage their online credentials, CILogon, a service that bridges from campus credentials to cyberinfrastructure, and Bro, a network security monitor co-developed at ICSI and NCSA that is used by Fortune 50 companies, labs and universities worldwide. NCSA is also a partner in Trusted CI, the Center for Trustworthy Scientific Cyberinfrastructure and the Software Assurance MarketplaceNSF Cybersecurity Center of Excellence.