NERSC Cyber Security Challenges That Require DOE Development and Support

Traditional security approaches do not adequately address all the requirements of open, scientific computing facilities. Many of the methods used for more restricted environments, including almost all corporate/commercial systems, do not meet the needs of today's science. Use of only the available "state of the practice" commercial methods will have adverse impact on the ability of DOE to accomplish its science goals, and impacts the productivity of the DOE Science community. In particular, NERSC and other High Performance Computing (HPC) centers have special security challenges that are unlikely to be met unless DOE funds development and support of reliable and effective tools designed to meet the cyber security needs of High Performance Science.