Category: Computing
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Computer Security: Day of the open firewall
With ongoing vulnerability scans of CERN’s internet presence, the Computer Security team’s plans to perform penetration testing against selected targets visible to the internet
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CERN rewarded for its contributions to cloud computing
The award recognises CERN’s innovative use of cloud native technologies to address future scientific and operational challenges
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Farewell to the Alcatel phone exchange
Following the migration to software-based phones, CERN phones are now fully virtual and the Alcatel phone exchange has been disconnected
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Computer Security: Bingo walk-through
Bravo to all those who participated in the Bull**** Bingo and sent us their solution. Some people were wondering why their responses were not correct… Good point, so let’s walk through that Bingo
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The Open Quantum Institute launches its pilot phase at CERN
The three-year pilot will build on the efforts to date to help unleash the full power of quantum computing for the benefit of all
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Indico: 20 years of event managing
The CERN-developed open source software, Indico, is being chosen by a growing number of users worldwide. As it celebrates 20 years, find out what new features are planned for 2024
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Computer Security: The hardship of three security paradigms
These paradigms “KISS ─ keep it simple, stupid” and “defence-in-depth” go hand in hand once we all jointly pick the right two of “cheap, convenient, secure”
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A new data centre at CERN
The new data centre complements the existing centre and will allow CERN to respond to the growing data-processing needs of the worldwide scientific community
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Computer Security: Bull**** Bingo
There are many mantras and claims floating around about cybersecurity. Some of them leave no room for doubt, like “defence in depth”, which suggests deploying protective means at every level of the hardware and software stack, or “KISS ─ keep it simple, stupid” to avoid over-complication and too many deviations from the “standard” cybersecurity system.