October 2021 was Cyber Security Month. Also this year GÉANT launched a campaign to raise cybersecurity awareness within the R&E community. After the success of “Become a Cyber Hero” CSM2020, which saw the active participation of 20 NREN...
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With online commerce on a steep rise, the potential for luring customers through false online shops is also growing. Now, however, Switzerland’s national research and education network SWITCH is working with partners to make things harder for the...
Security Day 2021 took place online on Monday 14 June, launching the series of TNC21 side meetings! Around 85 attendees joined a full day of discussions, workshops and briefings on the latest security developments for Research & Education. The main...
CONNECT meets Alf Moens, Security Lead for GÉANT to talk about the European Commission’s revised Directive on Security of Network and Information Systems (NIS2 Directive). Alf, tell us about this new EC security directive. The NIS2 Directive...
Become A Cyber Hero, the first pan-European campaign organised by the GÉANT community, as part of the European Cyber Security Month 2020 activities, closed last month. The objective of the campaign was to encourage end-users to arm themselves against...
During Cyber Security Month 2020 CONNECT met Henry Hughes, Security Director for Jisc to talk about opportunities and challenges faced by Research & Education (R&E) in the current cyber security landscape dominated by the COVID pandemic. Words:...
By Jon Hunt, cyber services delivery manager at Jisc Criminals always find a way to take advantage of disasters. In the case of COVID-19, there has been a surge in phishing emails and online scams by nefarious individuals and organised gangs who want to...
Cyber-attacks were a key feature of the 2008 Russo-Georgian war; they affected websites of news agencies, the Georgian President and were implicated in the explosion of an oil pipeline. At that time in Georgia there was no governmental CERT (Computer...
By Guillaume Rousse, IT Security Engineer at GIP RENATER These days, passwords are a universal authentication method, because they are simple to configure on the server side, easy to use from any terminal, and simple to understand for the user...
The primary objective of the LITNET CERT, the Computer Emergency Response Team of the LITNET networks is to tackle security incidents, but it is also fully dedicated to their prevention. In order to deal with shared security challenges, the CERT has been...
