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==Archived News Items==

* October 13, 2009: NCSA Cybersecurity funded to develop cybersecurity plan for GENI. Adam Slagell and Von Welch are part of the [http://www.geni.net/?p=1480 latest round of GENI funding] to develop an operational security plan for the [http://www.geni.net/ NSF GENI project].

* October 13, 2009: We're hiring [http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/AboutUs/Employment/A0900083.html visiting research programmers]. Search closes October 27 (extended from October 9).

* August 28, 2009: [http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/News/09/0828NCSAresearchers.html NCSA researchers receive NSF grant to deploy cyberinfrastructure logon service]

* June 29, 2009: [http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/News/09/0629NCSAresearchers.html NCSA researchers receive NSF grant for cyberinfrastructure security software]

* April 2, 2009: The [[Observatory Middleware Framework (OMF)]] project is a collaboration between the Monterey Bay Research Institute (MBARI) and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois. In April 2009, OMF reached a major project milestone with [[OMF INGRID Demo April 2009|a demonstration at INGRID 2009]] in Sardinia, Italy.

* March 26, 2009: CSD projects among both [http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/News/09/0326Studentscan.html NCSA] and [http://www-unix.globus.org/news.html#153 Globus] project candidates for the Google Summer of Code projects. (CSD projects in [http://security.ncsa.uiuc.edu/wiki/GSoC_2009#SAML_Holder-of-Key_Assertion_Request Globus] and [http://dev.globus.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2009_Ideas#Security_projects NCSA].)

* February 23, 2009: [http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/News/09/0223MyProxypasses.html MyProxy passes independent vulnerability assessment]

* January 27, 2009: Randy Butler and Von Welch interviewed on Homeland Security for Illinois Alumni [http://www.uiaa.org/urbana/illinoisalumni/0901b.html Mind Over Matter] article.

* January 14, 2009: During a conference at Fordham University, NCSA's Jim Barlow [http://www.fordham.edu/Campus_Resources/eNewsroom/topstories_1442.asp described how the center's staff successfully collaborated with the FBI to trace and bring to justice a teen-ager hacker who had infiltrated the TeraGrid].

===2008===

* September 26, 2008: GridShib 0.6.1 has been [http://www.globus.org/mail_archive/gridshib-announce/2008/09/msg00000.html released]. Both GridShib SAML Tools v0.5.0 and GridShib for GT v0.6.1 will be included in a TeraGrid Capability Kit to supplement the [http://www.teragrid.org/userinfo/software/ctss.php Coordinated TeraGrid Software and Services (CTSS)] stack. 

* August 25, 2008: [http://www.wdws.com/podcasts/newsmakers/2008/08/22/436 WDWS Newsmakers Podcast with NCSA Cybersecurity Directorate co-leads Randy Butler and Von Welch]

* August 20, 2008: [[NCSA makes secure group email services available]] to interested user communities.

* August 19, 2008: Interview with NCSA Cybersecurity Directorate co-leads Randy Butler and Von Welch on Illinois web site: [http://illinois.edu/pc/article/72/15715 A Minute With Von Welch and Randy Butler]

* June 25, 2008: NCSA Cybersecurity Directorate featured on main NCSA Web Site: [http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/News/Stories/Cybersecurity/ Strong community engagement strengthens cybersecurity research and development]

* June 11, 2008: [http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/News/08/0616Studentsembark.html  Students embark on Google Summer of Code projects with NCSA CyberSecurity Directorate]

* May 11, 2008: [[Critical inquiry | CSD News Feature: Critical inquiry.]]  FBI agents came to NCSA in April to participate in RCAT 2008.

* April 30, 2008: [http://www.globus.org/mail_archive/gridshib-announce/2008/04/msg00002.html GridShib for Globus Toolkit v.0.6.0 has been released.]  The release is the culmination of a 20-month effort to bring SAML-based attribute push to X.509-based Grids.

* April 24, 2008: [http://sels.ncsa.uiuc.edu/ Secure Email List Services (SELS) 0.6.1] has been released.]  SELS is open-source software for creating and developing secure email list services for user communities, compatible with several commonly-used email clients.

* January 14, 2008: [http://www.iti.uiuc.edu/press-releases/08-01-11-cybertrust.html official press release] on CyberTrust award with ITI.

===2007===

* October 12, 2007: [http://sels.ncsa.uiuc.edu Secure Email List Services (SELS) 0.4 released.]  Many new features.

* October 2, 2007: Cybersecurity researchers from NCSA and the University of Illinois Computer Science Department have received a [http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=0716626 NSF Cybertrust Award] to further their work on attribute-based messaging.

* September 24, 2007: NCSA, in collaboration with the FBI, receives an award from the Department of Justice titled "Enabling Initial Computer Investigation by Non-Expert Law Enforcement Personnel".  This project will develop capabilities to carry out a digital investigation of a live Windows system.

* September 1, 2007: NCSA receives $500K from the National Science Foundation for the project titled "Observatory Middleware Framework" to develop governance capabilities within an Enterprise Security Bus in support of earth observatories.

* June 15, 2007: [[Job Openings#NCIDR Positions|We are hiring for NCDIR]].

* June 13, 2007: NCSA receives $1.5M from FBI to form the [http://www.ncdir.us National Center for Digital Intrusion Response] to enhance the capabilities of the FBI to response to and investigate cyberintrusions.

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