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Computer security: Computing power for professionals… only!

CERN’s OpenStack service provides you with enormous computing and storage resources to achieve your professional goals

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12 January, 2018

Breaking data records bit by bit

In October 2017 the CERN data centre broke its own record for data storage when it collected 12.3 petabytes of data over a single month

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14 December, 2017
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14 December, 2017

Why you got a new PDF reader

Software of high quality that is well programmed, with best-practice security principles in mind, is harder to exploit

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10 December, 2017
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10 December, 2017

Applications open for 2018 CERN openlab Summer Students

Would you be interested in working on an advanced IT project for two months during the summer? Apply to the CERN openlab Summer Student Programme

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07 December, 2017

Computer Security: CERN under friendly poking

If you also want to become a penetration tester and identify potential areas for improving CERN’s computer security sign up to the WhiteHat Challenge

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17 November, 2017
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17 November, 2017

Intel and CERN openlab team up for developer challenge

The competition featured students working on exciting challenges within both high-energy physics and other research domains

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16 November, 2017

Computer Security: And in the real world?

In the real world, we have become accustomed to acting securely, but we struggle to keep our computers up to date such that basic digital protections

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06 November, 2017
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06 November, 2017

From the web to a start-up near you

Twenty years ago, in 1997, CERN set up a reinforced policy and team to support its knowledge- and technology-transfer activities

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26 October, 2017
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26 October, 2017

Computer Security: Enter the next level: Doxware

Now attackers have started increasing the pressure, and now comes the next level: “Doxware”

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23 October, 2017

CERN openlab students reflect on summer projects

The final students from the 2017 CERN openlab Summer Student Programme recently left CERN after nine weeks working on advanced computing projects

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19 October, 2017