| TRUSTED CI NEWSLETTER May 2026 |
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| Trusted CI Hosts 2026 Regional Summit in Alabama |
| In collaboration with the University of Alabama, Trusted CI hosted its inaugural Regional Cybersecurity Summit in Tuscaloosa. Designed for the southeastern U.S. community, the event featured a two-day agenda (April 21st – 22nd) based on the Trusted CI Annual Summit. Day 1 of the program focused on hands-on learning, including a poster session and workshops covering Zeek monitoring, security log analysis, tabletop exercises, software security, and quantum machine learning. A Scholarship for Service panel was also a key highlight. Day 2 consisted of plenary sessions addressing research security requirements, AI’s impact on cybersecurity, and NIST compliance within HPC research. The day concluded with a roundtable on scientific software security. Read the blog post here. |
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| | The leadership team of the workshop Aligning Culture: Turning Research Security into Institutional Practice" |
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Trusted CI Presents at Cybersecurity and Privacy Professionals Conference |
| Trusted CI experts Will Drake and Hauke Bahr, alongside Carolyn Ellis from RRCoP and a collaborative team from six prominent universities—including Arizona State University, Indiana University, North Carolina State University, New Jersey Institute of Technology, University of Michigan and University of Southern California—led a comprehensive, day-long session at the EDUCAUSE Cybersecurity and Privacy Professionals Conference (CPPC) in Anaheim. Their workshop, Aligning Culture: Turning Research Security into Institutional Practice, utilized expert panels and interactive exercises to provide attendees with the strategies and tools necessary for cultivating collaborative, campus-wide frameworks for research cybersecurity. |
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| | 2026 NSF Cybersecurity Summit Registration Now Open! |
| The Summit brings together leaders in research cyberinfrastructure (CI), cybersecurity, and higher ed researchers to build a trusting, collaborative community that addresses the community’s core cybersecurity challenges. Join us for the exciting 2026 NSF Cybersecurity Summit! More information about the Summit can be found here. |
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| Still Open: 2026 NSF Cybersecurity Summit Call for Proposals |
| The 2026 NSF Cybersecurity Summit (Oct 27-29, Irvine) Call for Proposals is still open! The Trusted CI team welcomes proposals relevant to a broad range of topics related to the operational cybersecurity of NSF cyberinfrastructure and programs. Proposals that address topics impacting the NSF CI Community are highly encouraged. The deadline for plenary, workshop, training, BoF, and project meeting submissions is Tuesday, June 30th. More details can be found here. |
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| Webinar NewsRegulated Research Community of Practice (RRCoP) webinars occur on the second Wednesday of the month. Check the calendar here. Recent WebinarsUpcoming WebinarsConferences and eventsEmployment and internship opportunitiesTrusted CI posts employment and internship opportunities on our website, and we can assist you in promoting your organization’s open positions. Email us with info about your employment opportunities.
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| Trusted CI, the NSF Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, is supported by the National Science Foundation under Interagency Agreement #A2407-049-089-064206.0. Trusted CI’s mission is to enable trustworthy NSF science by partnering with cyberinfrastructure operators to build and maintain effective cybersecurity programs, publishing resources for the broader NSF community, and advancing the processes, tools, and knowledge needed to secure research progress. |
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