By Silvia Arezzini, IT project manager at the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics In this month dedicated to cybersecurity, I’m thinking a lot about...
Author - Davina Luyten
Davina Luyten is communications officer at Belnet. She has a background in translation, journalism and multilingual corporate communication. At Belnet, she focuses on external communication, public relations, crisis communication and security awareness. She has participated in the GÉANT project since 2020, where her involvement includes the annual cyber security awareness campaign.
What can students expect from studying cyber security today? How do you make it interesting and relevant? And what are the biggest challenges lecturers face...
There are three things that will require your focus when establishing security and privacy arrangements within your institution: technology, awareness and...
By Edilson Lima, Security Manager at CAIS/RNP Although not something new, in recent years remote work, or home office, has become the only way to keep a lot...
Planning large-scale security awareness campaigns throws up many questions to grapple with. How can you make sure your campaign reaches the right people...
What are the biggest challenges facing CISOs for NRENs today, and how do these vary in different countries? Croatia’s Vlado Pribolšan and Denmark’s Henrik...
By Adrian Bühler, Mac System Administrator at SWITCH Let me walk you through how we do reporting, onboarding and lunch & learns in our internal campaign...
Proposal for a map of competencies in cybersecurity for non-ICT staff of companies and organizations
By Josu Mendívil, IT Director and CISO at the University of Deusto The degree of knowledge and awareness of cybersecurity by employees should be considered a...
Within three years, Cyprus’s newly formed academic CSIRT has already made impressive progress, even while navigating a global pandemic. CYNET’s Panayiota...
Picture the scene. You’re running a workshop at a university to improve, say, understanding of data privacy. Or you’re on site at an organisation experiencing...
This is the first-hand account of the 24 hours following the cyberattack on the University of Castilla-La Mancha, written by that university’s Director of ICT...
By SI-CERT (Slovenian Computer Emergency Response Team) In addition to creating content and post updates on a daily basis, social media account managers often...
What are the hardest and best parts about setting up and managing a national CSIRT, and chairing TF-CSIRT? Why is the international response community so...
By Henry Hughes, Director of Security at Jisc For more than two years, Jisc has been supporting the sector to deal with a sustained increase in ransomware...
By Steve Kennett, CISO at Jisc Recently, the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) have warned against paying...
By the Advanced Computing Group of the Institute of Physics of Cantabria (IFCA) (CSIC-UC) The implementation of the ISO27001 standard establishes the necessary...
by Dr John Chapman, Head of Janet policy and strategy A new UK government report highlights that senior leadership teams don’t always take cyber security...
Why Belnet created a ransomware response plan Attacks involving ransomware have been on the rise for some time. Research by Check Point Research shows that in...
In October GÉANT will launch a large-scale campaign to raise cybersecurity awareness within the international Research & Education community. Following the...
By Urpo Kaila, Head of Security at CSC The clear line between work and our own time disappeared a long time ago. Only few of us keep work related matters in a...