Cybersecurity
Proper security is increasingly important because of the increasing dependence on ICT in education and research. SURF's ambition is to make institutions resilient against cybercriminals. Among other things, by helping them reach NBA maturity level 3.
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Security communities: working together on security and privacy

SURF has two security communities: SCIPR and SCIRT. Information security officers and privacy officers work together in SCIPR (SURF Community for Information Security and PRivacy). Technical, operational security specialists can go to SCIRT, the SURF Community of Incident Response Teams. Both communities work closely together.

About SCIPR

Information security and privacy officers in education work together in SCIPR (SURF Community for Information Security and PRivacy). Among other things, we jointly draw up policies and guidelines there to improve your institution's information security and privacy.

About SCIRT

Operational security experts discuss current security challenges and exchange the latest tips & tricks with peers in SCIRT (SURF Community of Incident Response Teams). The aim is to raise the overall level of knowledge and experience within education and research to a higher level.

Exchange tips & tricks on cybersecurity threats

In our forum, we discuss and analyse the latest cybersecurity threats. We discuss ideas, tips and tricks to successfully ward off the threats from multiple perspectives. We mainly focus on operational security and security incident management (CERT/CSIRT).

STITCH: a short checklist for application security

It is increasingly important that software and services meet security requirements. But how do you choose among all those different lists and guidance documents? SCIRT, the cybersecurity community, therefore developed a simplified checklist: the Security Technical IT Checklist (STITCH).