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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 Expertise Centre: strong together against cyber threats

The Security Expertise Centre helps institutions make and keep themselves resilient against cyber security threats and attacks. We do this by combining knowledge and making it available on one platform for all institutions. This offers economies of scale and facilitates knowledge exchange. Thus, together we increase the cyber resilience of the entire education and research sector.

In development

The Security Expertise Centre is still in development. For example, we are holding discussions with the CISOs, the Coordinating SURF Contacts and the SCIRT and SCIPR communities, and we are surveying institutions to identify which themes should be addressed in the Security Expertise Centre.

Security Expertise Centre themes

In the Security Expertise Centre, we deal with the following themes:

Organisation and policy cybersecurity

The aim is to help institutions get in control and start working in a risk-based way. We also want to reach sector-wide agreements on frameworks and standards frameworks, among other things, so that all institutions have a basic level and can work together as well as possible.

Technical and executive measures to increase resilience

It is important to tackle this jointly, for instance with a reference architecture, a sector-wide crisis plan and agreements on basic measures. In this way, institutions can best help each other and exchange knowledge. In addition, institutions want to be able to act on risks and see the effect of risk-reducing measures.

Think along!

The Security Expertise Centre is a collaboration between institutions, external partners and SURF. Do you have good ideas for the Security Expertise Centre? Would you like to contribute? Then contact Ed de Vries at sec@surf.nl.

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