[Nheri-council] Attendance at Large Facilities Cybersecurity Summit

[julio ramirez]

Ellen and all,

It would seem to me that the first year we were all represented at the 
workshop was valuable.  Joy was there, too,
and met the group.  Also, the first year designsafe organized a larger 
meeting to introduce ourselves and for the
TACC team to lay out their plan for creating the security plan 
templates.  This latter item has been accomplished.
I am fine with not going having achieved the objectives above and with 
designsafe representing the NHERI Awardees
closing the loop with the meeting you proposed after each Summit.

I noticed that this year it is being held near the new NSF campus. That 
would be interesting to see, where the NSF is
now located; but that is more touristic curiosity.  If it’s determined 
by the Council that we still have an obligation to
send someone, I am happy to send Chris.  However, your point about 
budget is well taken. This money
could be used in other areas that would arguably benefit the program more.

Thanks,
Julio

On 5/9/18 5:00 PM, Cox, Daniel Thomas wrote:
> Ellen
>
> I agree with what you’re saying and support having a conference call 
> after the Cybersecurity summit to disseminate to our IT staff.
>
> Dan
>
>
>
>
> From: Nheri-council <nheri-council-bounces at designsafe-ci.org 
> <mailto:nheri-council-bounces at designsafe-ci.org>> on behalf of 
> "Rathje, Ellen M" <e.rathje at mail.utexas.edu 
> <mailto:e.rathje at mail.utexas.edu>>
> Date: Wednesday, May 9, 2018 at 1:37 PM
> To: NHERI-Council <NHERI-Council at designsafe-ci.org 
> <mailto:NHERI-Council at designsafe-ci.org>>
> Subject: [Nheri-council] Attendance at Large Facilities Cybersecurity 
> Summit
>
> Hi all:
>
> After our call today, I checked our CA and in section 2.5 it states:
>
> “Awardee shall participate annually, if organized that year, in one 
> NSF supported Large Facility Workshop and one NSF supported 
> Cybersecurity Summit.”
>
> Presumably, you all have the same in yours (but please check).  
> Although Joy intimated that we should all go because it was in our CA 
> and we budgeted for it, here are some thoughts (note that Joy is not 
> copied on this email):
>
>                Every other of the 26 LF’s sends one person - we are 
> one LF (with 11 awards)
>
>                It is a waste of time and money for us all to send 
> personnel
>
> We could re-budget the travel costs associated with the summit without 
> NSF approval since it is less than $50k.
>
> Despite the arguments above, it seems that is up to each of you to 
> decide if you are willing to risk not going to the Cybersecurity 
> summit and being out of compliance with your CA. DesignSafe will have 
> a representative there, so we could propose to Joy that we hold a Zoom 
> call after the Cybersecurity summit to discuss the broad themes 
> presented at the meeting.
>
> Look forward to hearing your thoughts.
>
> Ellen
>
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