XSEDE Cybersecurity
XSEDE cybersecurity must support the confidentiality, availability and integrity of these resources by: following best practices, employing risk-based approaches, fostering teamwork throughout the XSEDE team, and integration of new proven cybersecurity technologies, procedures and approaches. The following sections document the XSEDE Cybersecurity Program Plan (CSPP), a comprehensive cybersecurity program for this distributed cyberinfrastructure. Rising to the top of this list are a number of strategies that include:
- Support for a strong authentication and authorization service that limits access to only legitimate XSEDE users,
- Coordination of the XSEDE cybersecurity staff among contributing XD and campus Service Providers to develop policies, design secure architectures and review risks,
- Coordinated incident response and intelligence sharing across Service Providers, trusted partners and other federations,
- A strong XSEDE cybersecurity education program, and
- Proactive cybersecurity through careful risk/threat analysis, design and architecture of XSEDE at every level.
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