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[edit] NCSA Cybersecurity Directorate

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Critical inquiry. In mid-April CSD staff hosted RCAT 2008, bringing members of the FBI's Regional Cyber Action Team to NCSA from all over the country to hone their skills in digital investigation. Read more.









[edit] Who we are

The Cybersecurity Directorate at NCSA is composed of researchers, developers, and network security specialists who work to advance the state of the art of cybersecurity, apply those advances to key science, engineering, government, and law enforcement user communities, and protect NCSA's networks and substantial computing resources.

NCSA Cybersecurity provides leadership for the The National Center for Advanced Secure Systems Research, a collaboration between NCSA, the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, the Naval Postgraduate School, and the University of Illinois Department of Computer Science to advance the state of the art in security for our nation's critical infrastructure.

The Cybersecurity Directorate also includes NCSA's Security Operations Team. This group is responsible for incident response and production security at NCSA.

[edit] Security at NCSA

NCSA has been researching, developing, and deploying cybersecurity solutions for two decades. Find out more.

[edit] Contacts

For more information, contact Von Welch (vwelch@ncsa.uiuc.edu) or Randy Butler (rbutler@ncsa.uiuc.edu), Cybersecurity Co-Directors.

[edit] To Report A Security Incident

To report a security incident, please see How To Report a Security Incident.

[edit] News

News Archives

  • 4/24/2008: 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.

[edit] Working with Law Enforcement and Cybersecurity Professionals

We have a number of collaborations with law enforcement and cybersecurity professionals and have developed a number of cybersecurity tools designed for those communities, including Secure Email List Service (SELS), Framework for Log Anonymization and Information Management (FLAIM) and Palantir.

[edit] Security for CyberInfrastructure


Our Security for CyberInfrastructure page contains a number of our tools for securing cyberenvironments, including MyProxy, GSI-OpenSSH and GridShib.

We also have a set of Grid Security HowTos to help users with our tools and other technology.

[edit] Partnerships

NCSA Cybersecurity staff are proud members of the University of Illinois' Information Trust Institute.
NCSA is a leader in grid security and one of the members of the Globus Alliance.

[edit] Other NCSA Cybersecurity sites


  • NCSA PKI Lab: NCSA PKI Laboratory hosts a variety of PKI Equipment that allows us to evaluate solutions and systems.
  • MyProxy: MyProxy is NCSA's open-source X.509 credential management solution, deployed at over 200 sites world-wide.
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