Category: Computing

  • Computer Security: 5 ways to remotely connect to CERN

    Computer Security: 5 ways to remotely connect to CERN

    With the roll-out of 2-factor authentication for the CERN Single Sign-On now concluded, the next step required by the 2023 CERN cybersecurity audit is to streamline all methods for remotely connecting to CERN

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  • Computer Security: Allô? International response here

    Computer Security: Allô? International response here

    International collaboration and incident response is key. Because an incident in the Antipodes might directly affect the IT services at CERN. And has done so

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  • Computer Security: SecDevOps tips

    Computer Security: SecDevOps tips

    It should be common knowledge among software developers that writing software with as few weaknesses, vulnerabilities and flaws as possible is the most cost-efficient solution

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  • CERN joins the build-up phase of EOSC Federation

    CERN joins the build-up phase of EOSC Federation

    The Laboratory is one of 13 organisations selected to contribute to the build-up phase of the European Open Science Cloud Federation

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  • Computer Security: ThisIsAVeryGoodPassword

    Computer Security: ThisIsAVeryGoodPassword

    Let’s give up the complexity rules (letters, symbols, numbers) and go for long passwords, i.e. “passphrases”, instead. Long but easy to remember

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  • Computer Security: The cost of compromise

    Computer Security: The cost of compromise

    Recently, the Computer Security Office reported on a cybersecurity incident at a remote Tier 2 site of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG)

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  • Computer Security: Store your data right

    Computer Security: Store your data right

    The Legal Service, the Computer Security team and stakeholders from the FAP and IT departments have produced a Data Handling Policy (DHP) setting out how all CERN professional data must be handled

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  • Computer Security: 2025 – Plugging holes

    Computer Security: 2025 – Plugging holes

    The Computer Security Office has been attempting to plug obvious holes in CERN’s computer security stance since well before the 2023 cybersecurity audit, and it will continue to do in 2025 and beyond

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  • International Geneva celebrates the International Year of Quantum

    International Geneva celebrates the International Year of Quantum

    Hosted in the historical venue of the Geneva Conservatory of Music, the event brought quantum technologies on stage for the local and global community

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  • Computer Security: When free+free becomes costly

    Computer Security: When free+free becomes costly

    Before using any cloud service, software or application, check its licence conditions…

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