The Research Challenge: Achieving Security, Compliance, and Cooperation through the Cloud

Research exists within a faculty-directed domain and includes a world of collaborators, transient students and staff, shadow IT, and above all, academic freedom. In this context, university research increasingly finds itself in the security and compliance spotlight. This is evidenced by sophisticated, targeted attacks against intellectual property, opportunistic ransomware, as well as new compliance requirements, like the new Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC). A cloud-based solution simultaneously addresses these challenges and the unique nature of university research?which typically operates outside of enterprise and academic IT?rendering existing approaches ill-suited and impractical. A cloud-based approach can positively affect the balance and cooperation needed to achieve both institutional prerogatives and researcher freedom. In this session, we will outline how the cloud offers consistent and repeatable security controls along with observability and auditability for compliance, where researchers maintain maximum ability to implement research computing solutions that address their needs within a cloud-based computing environment that is flexible, scalable, and feature rich. We will hear from the University of California, San Diego Health who will share successful real-world examples of their cloud-based approach to support researchers and accelerate time to science, security, and compliance.