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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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27 March, 2025
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27 March, 2025

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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10 March, 2025
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10 March, 2025

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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27 February, 2025
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27 February, 2025

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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25 February, 2025

Computer Security: When free+free becomes costly

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

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11 February, 2025

Computer Security: Don’t let your data walk away

Data confidentiality, while not paramount for CERN’s physics data, is still important when it comes to protecting sensitive contractual, financial, personal, radiation- and science-related documents and files...

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30 January, 2025

Computer Security: Are you a team player?

Today, we stand on the shoulders of giants, of giant teams, of collaborations, and only jointly can we reach our (research) goals

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13 January, 2025
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13 January, 2025

Computer Security: A security balancing act

CERN must be protected against any kind of successful large-scale attack, while maintaining a balance between security, academic freedom and the use of accelerators and experiments

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05 December, 2024
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05 December, 2024

Computer Security: Free croissants for everyone

We strongly encourage everyone to lock their computer with a password-protected screen lock when leaving the device unattended

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26 November, 2024

Computer Security: Security Rules revised

All owners of computing resources connected to or provided to them by CERN’s computing facilities are ultimately responsible for the compliance of their actions and their resources with these Rules

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11 November, 2024
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11 November, 2024