The National Science Foundation has awarded Trusted CI, the NSF Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, a $12.5 million renewal grant to extend the center through 2024.
The Indiana University Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research is the lead organization for the NSF Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, in collaboration with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Internet2 and the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
"As with the internet broadly, scientific cyberinfrastructure continues to be negatively impacted by cybercrime and other cyberattacks," said Von Welch, director and principal investigator of Trusted CI and director of the IU Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research. "Our role is to lead the adoption of a comprehensive cybersecurity framework to support the NSF-funded research and open science."
Over the past seven years, Trusted CI pioneered and set the standard for the NSF Cybersecurity Center of Excellence through continuous innovation in cybersecurity, and cultivating the NSF community's trust in Trusted CI as a partner and a leader. Thus far, Trusted CI has helped over 250 projects improve their strength in cybersecurity.
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In addition to work toward a comprehensive cybersecurity framework, Trusted CI will initiate an innovative training program in 2020. Working with regional networks throughout the country, Trusted CI will train a wide range of people in cybersecurity skills to protect national research endeavors.
To better address the challenges of cybersecurity and research, IU also recently appointed Welch as executive director for cybersecurity innovation, a universitywide role responsible for leveraging IU's cybersecurity operational and research strengths to address challenges faced across the nation.
