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S10E7 August 2025: Securing Medical Imaging AI Models Against Adversarial Attacks

While AI is increasingly present in clinical practice especially for medical imaging, it is imminent to ensure cybersecurity of imaging diagnostic AI models. Newly advanced adversarial attacks pose a…

S10E6 July 2025: TIPPSS to improve Trust, Identity, Privacy, Protection, Safety and Security for Cyberphysical Systems

The challenge of providing end to end trust and security for operational technology systems has been a growing challenge and increasingly imperative. An IEEE effort was begun in 2016 to tackle that…

S10E5 June 2025: Towards Practical Confidential High-Performance Computing

The democratization of high-performance computing (HPC)—driven by a paradigm shift toward cloud-based solutions—has unlocked unprecedented scalability in data sharing, interdisciplinary…

S10E4 May 2025: Conducting Responsible Human-Centered AI Research

With the recent rise of LLMs, it becomes increasingly possible (and necessary) to conduct human-subjects studies with AI tools. However, integrating AI in human-subjects research raises concerns…

S10E3 March 2025: The Operational Technology Procurement Vendor Matrix

Operational Technology (OT), when installed on an organization's network, becomes part of the overall cyber attack surface for an organization. When procuring this OT, it is important for the…

S10E1 January 2025: A Unified Monitoring Approach to Enhancing the Security and Resiliency of Hazard Workflows

In this talk, we will first discuss techniques to improve the resiliency of hazard monitoring systems. This includes optimizing machine learning training pipelines for wildfire detection to achieve…

S9E7 November 2024: Privacy Preserving Aggregate Range Queries on Encrypted Multi-dimensional Databases

Data-driven collaborations often involve sharing large-scale datasets in cloud environments, where adversaries may exploit server vulnerabilities to access sensitive information. Traditional…

S9E6 August 2024: JSON Web Tokens for Science: Hands on Jupyter Notebook Tutorial

NSF cyberinfrastructure is undergoing a security transformation: a migration from X.509 user certificates to IETF-standard JSON Web Tokens (JWTs). This migration has facilitated a re-thinking of…

S9E5 July 2024: Automated Building and Deploy Testing — Using Zeek as an example

At ESnet, we pride ourselves on being cutting-edge, even if it causes a few scratches. Every new branch of Zeek is automatically built and tested in Gitlab CI. Then, every night, the latest…

S9E4 June 2024: The Transformative Twelve: Taking a Practical, Evidence-Based Approach to Cybersecurity Controls

Controls aren’t everything, but they are an important rubber-meets-the-road component of your cybersecurity strategy and program. This webinar will help you will understand the role controls play in…

S9E3 May 2024: NSF's 2025 Research Infrastructure Guide: Information Assurance

NSF's major facilities represent some of the most significant research facilities on the globe. The forthcoming revision to the Research Infrastructure Guide (or RIG) details NSF's guidance on…

S9E2 April 2024: SPHERE - Security and Privacy Heterogeneous Environment for Reproducible Experimentation

Cybersecurity and privacy threats increasingly impact our daily lives, our national infrastructures, and our industry. Recent newsworthy attacks targeted nationally important infrastructure, our…

S9E1 March 2024: Lessons from the ACCORD Project

The ACCORD cyberinfrastructure project at the University of Virginia (UVA) successfully developed and deployed a community infrastructure providing access to secure research computing resources for…

S8E10 December 2023: Open Science Chain

The envisioned advantage of sharing research data lies in its potential for reuse. Although many scientific disciplines are embracing data sharing, some face constraints on the data they can share…

S8E9 September 2023: Improving the Privacy and Security of Data for Wastewater-based Epidemiology

As the use of wastewater for public health surveillance continues to expand, inevitably sample collection will move from centralized wastewater treatment plants to sample collection points within the…

S8E8 August 2023: Leveraging Adaptive Framework for Open Source Data Access Solutions

More than a decade ago, Clemson University outlined the requirements needed to integrate several campus-wide enterprise applications in a way that would automate the exchange of data between them,…

S8E7 July 2023: The Technical Landscape of Ransomware: Threat Models and Defense Models

Ransomware has become a global problem. Given the reality that ransomware will eventually strike your system, we focus on recovery and not on prevention. The assumption is that the attacker did…

S8E6 June 2023: SecureMyResearch at Indiana University: Effective Cybersecurity for Research

S8E5 May 2023: Senior Citizens Striking Back at Scammers

Thousands of people fall for online scams every year. Anyone can be scammed, but older adults in the US are the most targeted population in the world. By far. Those over age 60 lost over $3 Billion…

S8E4 April 2023: Cybersecurity Operations for the NSF ACCESS Cyberinfrastructure

On September 1, 2022, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) ACCESS Cyberinfrastructure started production operations, ushering in a new era following two decades of cooperative…