Trusted CI News and Notes
Songer, Julie Mae
November 19, 2024
Students enjoy networking and tour the Carnegie Museum of Art and Natural History.
2024 Cybersecurity Summit Tackles AI, Risks, Compliance, and Framework adoption
Trusted CI hosted 170 in-person and 96 remote attendees, including 18 students and 15 attendees
from the Minority Serving-Cyberinfrastructure Community (MS-CC), at the 2024 Cybersecurity
Summit held at Carnegie Mellon University, October 7-10 in Pittsburgh, PA. In a follow-up
survey of 71 respondents, 68 rated their overall experience as Excellent or Good. In addition to
learning about research cybersecurity solutions, attendees enjoyed a jam night at Hop Farm
Brewing and a networking reception at the Carnegie Museum of Art and Natural History.
Sean Peisert thanks Jim Basney for leading Trusted CI. Poster session networking.
Cybersecurity Center of Excellence Receives Five-Year, $6M/Year Award From NSF
The U.S. National Science Foundation has awarded Trusted CI, the NSF Cybersecurity Center of
Excellence, a five-year, $6 million per-year award to run through September 2029. Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) will now serve as Trusted CI’s central steward.
The cornerstone of the center is the Trusted CI Framework, which guides research institutions in
launching and maintaining cybersecurity programs.
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of the NAIRR Portal, a central hub connecting researchers, educators, and students with critical
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anonymized and reported in aggregate to the NSF.
Webinar news
Trusted CI webinars are presented live on the 4th Monday of the month. The webinars are
recorded and links to the slides and videos are posted on the Trusted CI website. Regulated
Research Community of Practice (RRCoP) webinars occur on the second Wednesday of the month.
Recent webinars
· See the slides and video from the November 18 webinar on Privacy Preserving Aggregate
Range Queries on Encrypted Multi-dimensional Databases (NSF Award #2232813) with
Hoda Maleki.
· For a wrap-up of previous Trusted CI webinars, go here.
Upcoming webinars
- Dec. 11: Regulated Research Community of Practice webinar, Topic: Trusted CI and
RRCoP – The Next Five Years
- Dec. 12: HazardMon (NSF Award #2319944) with Sudarsun Kannan and Ramakrishnan Durairajan.
Conferences and events
- March 18-21, 2025: Research Infrastructure Workshop in El Segundo, California.
- May 28-30, 2025 MS-CC Annual Meeting, in Nashville, TN.
2024 Summit Networking at the Carnegie Museum of Art and Natural History.
A Carnegie Mellon University panel speaks about tech, cyber, and risk at the 2024 Summit.
Employment opportunities
Trusted CI posts employment opportunities on our website, and we can assist you in promoting
your organization’s open positions. Email us with info about your employment opportunities.
- Manager of Information Systems, Security/Data Management Analyst, Sr., Arizona State University
- Linux Security Analyst, Minnesota Supercomputing Institute
- DevSecOps Engineer, Minnesota Supercomputing Institute
- Operational Cybersecurity Research Liaison (Data Engineer), Indiana University
