Using high-performance computing (HPC) or cloud environments inevitably means sharing storage and compute resources with strangers, and entrusting our code and data to the care of system administrators. While these systems usually operate in good faith and provide best-practice security, data breaches may still happen. Encryption can provide some additional protection for highly sensitive data, but it is not a magic bullet for data security. In this presentation, we showcase a two-part workflow and discuss the security benefits and unavoidable risks. In the first part (storage), we demonstrate how the Rclone program can be used to safely send data to a remote storage system such that it is encrypted at rest. In the second part (compute), we discuss how these encrypted data can be utilized for compute tasks in the HPC context, where scheduling is involved.
This presentation will occur on June 14 from 9:00 A.M. to 10:20 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time.
- Teacher: Yohai Meiron