Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure (CICI)

The Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure (CICI) program aims to enhance the security and privacy of cyberinfrastructure, supporting the development, deployment, and integration of cybersecurity that benefits the broader scientific community. The program 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. CICI seeks proposals in four program areas: • Usable and Collaborative Security for Science (UCSS): supporting novel and/or applied security and usability research that facilitates scientific collaboration and creates a holistic, integrated security environment. • Reference Scientific Security Datasets (RSSD): leveraging instrumented cyberinfrastructure to capture metadata from scientific workflows and workloads as reference data artifacts. • Transition to Cyberinfrastructure Resilience (TCR): improving the robustness, trustworthiness, integrity, and/or resilience of scientific cyberinfrastructure through testing, evaluation, hardening, validation, and technology transition of novel cybersecurity research. • Integrity, Provenance, and Authenticity for Artificial Intelligence Ready Data (IPAAI): enhancing confidence and reproducibility in AI-produced scientific results by improving the integrity, provenance, and authenticity of scientific datasets used by Artificial Intelligence systems.