2022 NSF Cybersecurity Summit

Conference program

PLENARY DAY 2
Thursday, October 20, 2022

All times listed in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). Most sessions will be livestreamed. Program is subject to change.

Abstracts

Assurance Update

An Executive Order in 2021 and subsequent Office of Management and Budget guidance obligated federal agencies to implement Zero Trust security architectures. This joins the DoD's CMMCv2 and Confidential Unclassified Information as a source of contractual flow down of increasing levels of authentication and identity assurance requirements. We'll review some of what's happening in response within NIH and NSF, how commercial services are responding, and, for those R&E focused organizations and projects that find themselves in this wake, identify some ways to comply that fit with those environments

Exploring trust for Communities - Building trust for research and collaboration

When exploring the (sometimes) intimidating world of Federated Identity, research communities can reap considerable benefit from using common best practices and adopting interoperable ways of working. 

EnCo, the Enabling Communities task of the GÉANT 4-3 Trust and Identity Work Package, provides the link between those seeking to deploy Federated Identity Management and the significant body of knowledge accumulated within the wider community, within projects (e.g., AARC) and groups (e.g., WISE, FIM4R, IGTF, REFEDS). 

In our presentation, aimed at the research communities and the infrastructures providing their services, we give an overview on the linkages we provide and the work we contribute to.

Implementing Federated Identity Management for Earth Science Data Access

The SAGE and GAGE facilities began the process of merging two of NSF’s major facilities in 2020. One of the central challenges they’ve faced has been designing and implementing an identity management system that supports the mission of their new facility and enables authenticated and auditable data access without becoming a barrier to researchers.

This panel will discuss the lessons learned and challenges each facility has encountered during the process and highlight resources available to the research community to solve identity management problems, such as the CI Compass and Trusted CI Federated Identity Management cookbook and identity management engagements with CI Compass.