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24
May
2022

Cyberinfrastructure: What It Is and Why Your Campus Needs It

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes Our work at the Minority Serving – Cyberinfrastructure Consortium (MS-CC) centers on promoting advanced cyberinfrastructure capabilities on the campuses of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), Hispanic-serving institutions (HSIs), tribal colleges and universities (TCUs), and other minority…

22
Sep
2021

Security Scene: September 2021 Edition

By Adair Thaxton, Internet2 Cyberinfrastructure Security Engineer

Estimated reading time: 2 minutes Happy September! The trees are starting to turn, and I’m anxiously awaiting the cooler weather. I hope everything is settling down with the new school year! Anvil published an article about how a malicious…

31
Aug
2021

From IRR Data Veracity to RPKI Validator Software: Let’s Keep Up the Routing Security Enthusiasm!

By Andrew Gallo, Principal IT Architect, The George Washington University

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes Routing security continues to be an active area of discussion, both in the research and education networking community and across the industry. Let’s keep the enthusiasm going!   IRR Data Clean-Up Steven Wallace, Internet2 Security Architect, has been holding…

26
Jul
2021

Security Scene: July 2021 Edition

By Adair Thaxton, Internet2 Cyberinfrastructure Security Engineer

Estimated reading time: 1 minute It’s far too hot, y’all. I hope you’re all staying comfortable and not getting sunburned! Brian Krebs reports on a new development in card skimmers. The skimming hardware isn’t visible from outside the device, which…

23
Jun
2021

Security Scene: June 2021 Edition

By Adair Thaxton, Internet2 Cyberinfrastructure Security Engineer

Estimated reading time: 2 minutes Well, it’s summer, and things are starting to get back to normal in many places. Living in a college town, we typically see fewer people outside in the summer because many of them have gone back home, but…

08
Jun
2021

Internet2 Community Voices Series: Supporting Research Organizations, NSF Major Facilities with Operational Security Resources

By Susan Sons, chief security analyst at Indiana University's Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research; deputy director of the Research Security Operations Center (ResearchSOC); and supporting Trusted CI The NSF Cybersecurity Center of Excellence

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes Register for Open Science Operational Security in Action: ResearchSOC Deployment at NSF Facilities event to be held Thursday, June 17 at 1 p.m. ET. When we work with scientific organizations on cybersecurity, we find…