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CERN joins the build-up phase of EOSC Federation

The Laboratory is one of 13 organisations selected to contribute to the build-up phase of the European Open Science Cloud Federation

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24 April, 2025

Revised computer security rules

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15 April, 2025
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15 April, 2025

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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10 April, 2025
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10 April, 2025

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

Revised computer security rules

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04 February, 2025
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04 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