Cybersecurity Resources for Exascale and Beyond
Securing HPC, AI/ML, and next-generation computing environments
From high-performance computing (HPC) systems to AI/ML and data-intensive platforms, advanced computing environments are driving breakthroughs across science, defense, and national security. As these systems grow in scale and complexity, they also introduce new and evolving cybersecurity challenges.
This hub brings together ShorePoint’s expertise alongside curated third-party resources and industry events to help federal agencies better understand and secure advanced computing environments. The content will continue to expand with new insights, resources, and engagement opportunities.
HPC Terms and Acronyms | Expert Insights | Industry Resources | Upcoming Events
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ShorePoint supports federal agencies, labs, and research institutions in securing advanced computing environments, from HPC systems to AI/ML and data-intensive platforms. Our approach combines mission-focused cybersecurity with deep domain expertise to address the unique challenges of these complex environments.
HPC Terms and Acronyms
Core terminology and reference materials to build a shared understanding of advanced computing security concepts.
HPC Terms and Acronyms: A Federal Ecosystem Guide
High-performance computing (HPC) sits at the center of some of the most ambitious scientific and national security efforts underway today. As HPC environments grow in scale and importance, so does the specialized language used to describe them. This guide provides a reference to many of the key terms shaping the federal HPC landscape.
HPC Terms & Acronyms: A Genesis Mission Reference
The Genesis Mission represents a major effort to integrate supercomputers, AI systems, and scientific data across the federal research landscape. This guide provides a quick reference to key terms and acronyms shaping the high-performance computing (HPC) ecosystem behind the Genesis Mission.
Expert Insights
Practical guidance and expert perspectives to help navigate and secure complex computing environments.
The Genesis Mission Is a National Treasure. That Makes It a Target.
LinkedIn | July 30, 2026
The Genesis Mission is designed to federate the national labs’ data, models, and compute into a single platform. Like the Manhattan Project decades ago, this landmark concentration of science creates a target for adversaries’ concentration of attention. That reality “deserves as much attention as the science itself,” says ShorePoint’s Director of Advanced Computing Solutions, Ian Lee, in this LinkedIn article.
He draws on the inaugural Genesis Mission Summit (July 22, 2026; Washington, D.C.) to outline the threat vectors created by this ambitious undertaking and why AI-driven HPC changes the security calculus. He makes the case for a security posture built on continuous evaluation that is central to the Mission now, as the platform is still being built.
The Genesis Mission has a Security Problem
Washington Technology | June 18, 2026
The DOE’s Genesis Mission is moving faster than the security model built to support it. HPC security was built for air-gapped, perimeter-heavy environments with small, vetted user bases, not for systems talking to AWS, cloud AI models, and autonomous agents.
In this op-ed, ShorePoint’s Ian Lee sounds the alarm, outlining four specific risks:
- Federated identity and access management across trust domains
- Software supply chain exposure in AI and HPC workloads
- Gaps in threat detection as the user population expands, and
- Federal frameworks still catching up to exascale AI realities.
He also outlines what federal HPC stakeholders should be doing right now to catch up, before the window closes.
Before You Can Ask the Question, You Have to Own the Data: Lessons from DOE’s NLIT 2026 Panel on Trusted AI and Classified Data
OrangeSlices | June 9, 2026
Federal national laboratories hold decades of irreplaceable classified data that AI could make accessible for the first time. But realizing that potential requires confronting hard realities about data quality and governance that no architecture solves on its own. ShorePoint’s Ian Lee draws on the 2026 NLIT Summit to examine what leaders must address before sophisticated AI infrastructure can deliver, and why the organizations willing to do that foundational work first will have a meaningful advantage.
NIST SP 800-223 and 800-234: A Turning Point for Federal HPC Security
Federal News Network | May 5, 2026
For decades, federal high-performance computing systems have operated under an uncomfortable reality: the very controls that make IT systems secure can cripple the performance that makes supercomputers valuable. As federal investments in the Genesis Mission and other HPC programs accelerate, so do the cybersecurity risks. NIST SP 800-223 and SP 800-234 mark a significant step toward closing a long-standing standards gap, introducing the first purpose-built guidance for securing complex, large-scale HPC environments. Now leaders have both the framework and obligation to meet the scale of federal HPC ambitions.
Industry Resources
A curated selection of government, industry, and research resources to deepen understanding of the evolving threat and technology landscape for HPCs and other advanced computing systems.
A National Mission to Accelerate Science Through Artificial Intelligence
A national initiative launched by executive order in November 2025, directing the DOE to harness AI, supercomputing, and quantum systems across the 17 national laboratories to accelerate scientific discovery through artificial intelligence, with a stated goal of doubling U.S. research productivity within 10 years.
NIST | AI Risk Management Framework
Led by the Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) AI Program, and in collaboration with the private and public sectors, NIST has developed a framework to better manage risks to individuals, organizations, and society associated with artificial intelligence.
NIST | HPC Security Working Group
The NIST High-Performance Computing (HPC) Security Working Group brings together government, industry, and academic experts to develop practical guidance and standards for securing modern HPC environments. Its work focuses on addressing the unique risks of large-scale, multi-tenant, and high-speed computing systems that underpin critical research, national security, and advanced innovation.
High-Performance Computing Security: Architecture, Threat Analysis, and Security Posture
A NIST special publication establishing a four-zone HPC reference architecture (Access, Management, Computing, and Data Storage zones), along with threat analysis and security guidance tailored to HPC environments.
High-Performance Computing (HPC) Security Overlay
A companion to SP 800-223 that provides an actionable HPC security control overlay built on the NIST SP 800-53 moderate baseline, tailoring 60 security controls with HPC-specific supplemental guidance.
A global community-driven and expert-led initiative to create freely available open-source guidance and resources for understanding and mitigating security and safety concerns for Generative AI applications and adoption.
Semiannual Ranking of the World’s Fastest Supercomputers
Upcoming Events
Opportunities to connect with ShorePoint experts and stay current on developments in advanced computing and cybersecurity.
Nov. 15–20, 2026 | Supercomputing 26 (SC26) | Chicago, IL
SC26 is where the HPC community comes together to make technological and research progress, enlighten and empower all people, eliminate barriers to opportunities, chart the course for computing’s impact in the world — and have fun doing it.
ShorePoint role: Attend
April 5–9, 2027 | HPC Security Technical Exchange (STX) 2027
A first-of-its-kind event to bring together experts, practitioners, and enthusiasts in government HPC cybersecurity to share insights, discuss challenges, and explore innovative solutions.
ShorePoint role: Host, Ian Lee is founder and chair
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