August 2022: CIS Controls with Trusted CI

The Trusted CI Information Security Office (ISO) team will be presenting a webinar on the CIS Controls. This will include background and information on the CIS controls, our recent experiences using the controls to assess Trusted CI’s own cybersecurity program and operations, and how that can be applied to your own project.

Topics include:

  • Who Trusted CI is and why we have a cybersecurity program.

  • Background on the CIS controls and what an assessment is.What led us to perform a CIS assessment. 

  • Overview and discussion of our results.

  • Differences between control versions 7.1 and 8.

  • Discussion on methodology and tools that can be used in assessments.

Speaker Bios:

Shane Filus serves as a Senior Security Engineer at the Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center, and works with Trusted CI, XSEDE/ACCESS, and HuBMAP projects on all aspects of cybersecurity; from operations, to incident response, to policy, and everything in between.

Mark Krenz serves as Chief Security Analyst at Indiana University’s Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research. Mark’s focus is on cybersecurity operations, research and education. He has more than two decades of experience in system and network administration and has spent the last decade focused on cybersecurity. He serves as the CISO of the ResearchSOC and the Deputy CISO of Trusted CI.

Jeannette Dopheide