CLASS Events Schedule

Date: Sep. 23-24
Time: 1-5 p.m. ET each day
Cost: $100 for Cloud Infrastructure Community Program subscribers; $150 for Internet2 members; $200 for non-members

Researchers and research computing data professionals often inherit cloud environments or run into problems they weren’t trained to solve. 

This two-day workshop addresses the most common issues encountered in research cloud environments, including debugging identity and access management policies and permission failures; configuring and responding to budget alerts; investigating security alerts; troubleshooting network connectivity; and using CloudTrail and VPC Flow Logs to diagnose problems. A working knowledge of AWS fundamentals (AWS Research for Non-Majors – Basics or equivalent) is recommended.

Instructor: Kevin Murakoshi, Principal Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services

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Date: Sept. 29
Time: 1-2 p.m.
Cost: Free

This webinar explores how automation and artificial intelligence can help institutions make compliance more manageable. Through infrastructure-as-code, AWS Config, and AWS Conformance Packs, attendees will see how to establish repeatable security baselines and continuously evaluate technical controls mapped to NIST SP 800-171. Participants will also learn how a local AI agent can assist in evaluating compliance evidence and drafting System Security Plan and Plan of Action & Milestones documentation while keeping sensitive information local.

Three live demonstrations will showcase practical approaches that institutions with small teams can immediately begin applying to improve their cybersecurity and compliance posture.

Speaker:

• Holly Yuan, Professor and Program Director of Cybersecurity and Computer Networking & Infrastructure Engineering, University of Wisconsin–Stout

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Date: Oct. 6
Time: 2 – 3:30 p.m. ET
Cost: Free

This session provides a practical introduction to Globus Connect Server for system administrators. Participants will learn how to install GCS, register an endpoint, and configure basic storage gateways and mapped collections for POSIX-based campus or lab storage systems.

Explore essential configuration files and concepts, discuss firewall and network considerations, and learn how to create and test a simple endpoint suitable for end-user data transfers and basic sharing.

Instructor: Lev Gorenstein, Solutions Architect at Globus, University of Chicago

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Date: Oct. 13
Time: 1-2 p.m. ET
Cost: Free

Data owners, sponsors, institutional review boards, and compliance reporting teams all ask for evidence on their own schedules. Your environment changes faster than your documentation does. 

This virtual panel discussion explores how teams keep evidence up to date. What triggers an update? How can you catch artifacts that quietly went stale? And which routine practices prevent a six-week scramble when someone finally comes knocking? This information is useful whether or not a formal assessment is on your calendar.

Panelists:

• Barb Schnell, Associate Director of Secure Research Computing, University of Colorado Boulder
• Sandeep Chandra, Director of Stack Science, San Diego Supercomputer Center
• Rob Groome, Chief Technology Officer, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
• Damon Armour, Director of Information Security, Risk & Assurance, North Carolina State University

Moderator: 

• Jason Armbruster, CLASS Consultant at Internet2, and Associate Deputy Director of ACCESS Support at the University of Colorado Boulder

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Date: Oct. 14-15
Time: 1-5 p.m. ET each day
Cost: $100 for Cloud Infrastructure Community Program subscribers; $150 for Internet2 members; $200 for non-members

The third installment in the AWS Security for Non-Majors series puts detection into action. Over two days, participants will work through a selection of realistic incident response scenarios drawn from AWS CIRT’s publicly released workshop library. 

Attendees will practice investigating alerts, containing incidents, collecting evidence, and remediating compromised resources. Build the muscle memory needed to respond confidently when something goes wrong.

Instructor: Kevin Murakoshi, Principal Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services

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Date: Oct. 21-22
Time: 1-5 p.m. ET both days
Cost: $100 for Cloud Infrastructure Community Program subscribers; $150 for Internet2 members; $200 for non-members

Learn how to use various tools in Google Cloud to take in, manage, and leverage your data to derive insights in your research. 

Participants will be introduced to tools used by researchers on Google Cloud and will learn how to absorb both unstructured and structured data into Cloud Storage and BigQuery, respectively. 

See how to curate data and understand costs in Google Cloud and leverage notebook environments and other Google Cloud tools for descriptive and predictive analysis.

This workshop is recommended for beginners on Google Cloud, as well as researchers, research lab staff, and research computing data professionals.

Instructor: Tom Tipuric, Google Cloud Authorized Trainer

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Date: Nov. 3 and Nov. 5
Time: 1-5 p.m. ET each day
Cost: $100 for Cloud Infrastructure Community Program subscribers; $150 for Internet2 members; $200 for non-members

This two-day course equips higher education IT professionals with practical guidance for designing, deploying, and managing Microsoft Azure environments effectively. 

Participants will explore proven best practices, common pitfalls, and actionable strategies for building secure, reliable, and cost-conscious cloud solutions.

Instructor

• Ed Chase, Azure Cloud and AI Specialist at Microsoft

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Date: Nov. 11-12
Time: 1-5 p.m. ET each day
Cost: $100 for Cloud Infrastructure Community Program subscribers; $150 for Internet2 members; $200 for non-members

Has your security team asked you to inspect cloud traffic the same way you do on-prem — and you’re not quite sure how that works in AWS? This workshop is for you. 

In AWS, traffic inspection works differently. The cloud routing model requires a new approach to get appliances inline without changing how your applications behave. 

This workshop covers the right way to do it using AWS Gateway Load Balancer and gives you three hours of hands-on lab time to build it yourself. No prior experience with the inspection tools is required. This course is recommended for network engineers and security practitioners with basic AWS experience.

Instructor: Kevin Murakoshi, Principal Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services

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