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Jim Basney, Von Welch, and Randy Butler of NCSA's Cybersecurity Directorate have received a two-year $400,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to maintain and provide critical enhancements for cyberInfrastructure (CI) security technologies developed at NCSA and to foster science and engineering by helping additional communities build secure CI on these technologies.

The new project, called "CILogon," will support the continued community-driven development of theMyProxy, GridShib, and GSI-OpenSSH software. MyProxy is a globally used grid credential management service. GridShib bridges campus to grid identity management systems, facilitating seamless access from campuses to the NSF computational centers, observatories and other major research equipment and facilities construction supported projects. GSI-OpenSSH provides a single sign-on remote login and file transfer capability using grid security.

"We are excited at this opportunity to broaden our engagements with communities as well as maintain and advance the state of the art in security for cyberinfrastructure," said Basney, the project's principal investigator and an NCSA senior research scientist. "This project allows these technologies to continue to be at the forefront of secure, usable computational science."

For more information about NCSA's cybersecurity research and development, see:security.ncsa.uiuc.edu.