PEOPLE
Von Welch
Deputy Director
vwelch@indiana.edu
Von Welch is the deputy director of Indiana University’s Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research (CACR). He specializes in cybersecurity for distributed systems, particularly scientific collaborations and federated identity. Current roles include PI and director for the Center for Trustworthy Scientific Cyberinfrastructure, a project dedicated to helping NSF science projects with their cybersecurity needs, and CSO of the Software Assurance Market Place, a DHS-funded facilty to foster software assurance and software assurance research. Previously he has worked with a range of high-visibility projects to provide cybersecurity to the broader scientific and engineering community, including TeraGrid, Open Science Grid, Ocean Observatory Infrastructure, and GENI. His work in software and standards includes authoring two IETF RFCS and the development of several security systems for distributed computing including CILogon and MyProxy.
Publications
- Welch, Von; Basney, Jim; and Siebenlist, Frank. A Roadmap for Integration of Grid Security with One-Time Passwords, 2004
- Welch, Von; Lee, Adam; Winslett, Marrian; and Basney, James Traust: A Trust Negotiation-Based Authorization Service for Open Systems, Eleventh ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT 2006), 2006
- Barnett, William K.; Stewart, Craig A.; Almes, Gut T.; and Lingwall, Malinda (eds.). NSF Advisory Committee for Cyberinfrastructure Task Force on Campus Bridging. Final Report, 2011
