The CyberSecurity & Networking Division at NCSA Cybersecurity is composed of researchers, developers, and specialists who work to advance the state of the art of cybersecurity and networking, apply those advances to key science and engineering user communities, and provide for the high-performance and security of NCSA's networks and substantial computing resources.

Our Mission

We are community-driven cybersecurity and networking experts who enable security and high-performance solutions for the cyberinfrastructure cyber-infrastructure of our national science and engineering research communities. We are dedicated to:

• ensuring Ensuring the integrity and availability security of NCSA digital assets providing high-performance and highly available networkswhere security doesn't just encompass confidentiality and privacy but also ensures productivity, trustworthiness and reproducibility;
• advancing applied cybersecurity and networking research and anticipating future security trends and threats;
• building a more secure national cyberinfrastructure global cyber-infrastructure for our communities with other builders and operators by providing data, software, operational services, consulting, and training with expertise in
  
• High-performance Networking
Situational
• situational awareness and monitoring
for security and resilience
• Identity Management
• Security Operations for an HPC Environment

Security at NCSA

NCSA has been researching, developing, and deploying cybersecurity and networking solutions for decades. Find out more about the CyberSecurity & Networking Division and our software & projects.

Networking at NCSA

The NCSA Network Engineering team (“NetEng”) designs, builds, and supports network infrastructure to advance science by meeting the needs of NCSA’s high-performance systems, its national user community, staff, and partners. We emphasize reliability and performance while acting as an early adopter of new technologies.  Find out more about the CyberSecurity & Networking Division and our software & projects.

Contacts

For more information, contact Adam Slagell (slagell (at) illinois. (dot) edu), Cybersecurity & Networking Director.

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  • identity and access management,
  • security operations for scientific computing,
  • regulated, sensitive computing.

About Cybersecurity at NCSA

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) is a hub of transdisciplinary research and digital scholarship where University of Illinois faculty, staff, and students, and collaborators from around the globe, unite to address research grand challenges for the benefit of science and society. NCSA also provides integrated cyberinfrastructure—computing, data, networking, and visualization resources and expertise that are essential to the work of scientists, engineers, and scholars at the University of Illinois and across the country.

Find out who we are on our staff page.  More information about our activities can be found on our Project and Software page.