Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure (CICI)

The objective of the Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure (CICI) program is to advance scientific discovery and innovation by enhancing the security and privacy of cyberinfrastructure. CICI supports efforts to develop, deploy and integrate cybersecurity that will benefit the broader scientific community by securing science data, computation, collaborations workflows, and infrastructure. CICI recognizes the unique nature of modern, complex, data-driven, distributed, rapid, and collaborative science and the breadth of infrastructure and requirements across scientific disciplines, practitioners, researchers, and projects. The program comprises four areas: Usable and Collaborative Security for Science (UCSS) supporting novel security and usability research; Reference Scientific Security Datasets (RSSD) leveraging instrumented cyberinfrastructure to capture metadata; Transition to Cyberinfrastructure Resilience (TCR) improving robustness through testing and technology transition; and Integrity, Provenance, and Authenticity for Artificial Intelligence Ready Data (IPAAI) enhancing confidence in AI-produced scientific results.