Tag: Computer Security
Everyone using CERN’s IT infrastructure is responsible for the security and protection of the computers they use, the operating systems they run, the applications they install, the programs they write and the data they store, with the assistance of the IT Department and the Computer Security Team.
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Computer Security: TN v3.0
The worlds of IT and control systems have changed drastically thanks to virtualisation, containers, big data, machine learning, artificial intelligence, large language models… CERN needs to evolve towards Technical Network v3.0
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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
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
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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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
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
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
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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Computer Security: When free+free becomes costly
Before using any cloud service, software or application, check its licence conditions…
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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…