Initial Thoughts on Cybersecurity And Reproducibility

Abstract

Cybersecurity, which serves to protect computer systems and data from malicious and accidental abuse and changes, both supports and challenges the reproducibility of computational science. This position paper explores a research agenda by enumerating a set of two types of challenges that emerge at the intersection of cybersecurity and reproducibility: challenges that cybersecurity has in supporting the reproducibility of computational science, and challenges cybersecurity creates for reproducibility of computational science.