The WISE Community had planned to meet in person, jointly with SIG-ISM, and kindly hosted by Jisc in London during October 2020. The current situation with the COVID-19 pandemic means that, as in April 2020, this face to face meeting is not possible. The next… Read More »WISE Community will meet again on 26th and 29th October 2020
“What is the collective noun for such an enormous grouping of TV cameras?” That is the first thought that came to mind as I turned the corner and found the USA news teams between me and the Westin Hotel, Alexandria VA, where the 2018 NSF… Read More »The WISE Community makes good progress while USA news teams are gathered outside
The WISE Community braved a surprisingly frosty British February to meet at Cosener’s House in Abingdon, kindly hosted by STFC-RAL. In addition to community presentations, the group made good progress on understanding the next evolution for SCI – developing a reusable policy pack for research… Read More »WISE sets its Mission in Abingdon
Change is in the air for WISE as Spring approaches! Hannah Short (CERN) is leaving her role of WISE Steering Committee Chair and David Kelsey (STFC-RAL) will be taking the reigns. “As of the 6th WISE Workshop, I will be stepping down in my role… Read More »A New WISE Chair for Spring
WISE Community Workshop 26-28 Feb 2018 Hosted by STFC-RAL at Coseners House, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 3JD, United Kingdom. We will start at 09:00 on Monday 26th Feb and end at 12:30 on Wednesday 28th Feb (with lunch after that). The logistics regarding accommodation and registration fee… Read More »WISE @ STFC
This August, WISE was warmly welcomed to the NSF Cybersecurity Summit 2017 in Arlington, Virginia. Many thanks to our hosts for facilitating a hugely useful and productive workshop! Doug Pearson from REN-ISAC kicked off the day with an interactive presentation of the pDNS Data Sharing… Read More »WISE Feedback Gathered at the NSF Summit
An overview of Research and Education International Security Communities Alf Moens (SURFnet) & Sigita Jurkynaitė (GÉANT) Security has been sitting in the background of the Research and Education show for too long – it is now coming out to take a leading role and is becoming… Read More »Security is ‘the new black’ of the R&E community
WISE will be running a full day event at the NSF Summit this summer. Join us on August 15th, in Arlington, US! We look forward to welcoming colleagues from North America and around the world as we get our hands dirty with interactive activities including:… Read More »WISE@NSF Summit
As well as being the Co-Chair of WISE’s RAW Working group, Bart Bosma of SURFnet is instrumental in identifying the current risks to our community. The Cyber Threat Assessment for 2016, authored by Bart and presented at TNC17, identifies the key threats over the past year for education,… Read More »Learning from SURF’s Cyber Threat Assessment ’16
The WISE RAW WG (Risk Assessment Working Group) has published an easy to use risk management template with instructions for infrastructures and sites. The template is based on best practices shared by the participating infrastructures. The template is published with CC-BY license and can be downloaded from the WISE Wiki. The template… Read More »WISE Releases Risk Management Template