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The purpose of DoS or DDoS attacks is to disable your website, server or network. In particular, organisations with a critical IT infrastructure are often victims, such as banks, Internet service providers or hospitals. DDoS attacks have increased steadily in frequency in recent years. With the COVID-19 pandemic forcing our schools, work and social life onto the Internet, they have increased considerably in number and scale. In Q1 2020, there were almost twice as many DDoS attacks compared to Q1 2019.

Are you looking for tools to strengthen the resilience of your organisation in the field of cyber security? The Cyber ​​Security Coalition, of which Belnet is a part, has several ready-to-use tools available on its website. All existing tools have been recently updated. You can also try a new tool: an online game on safe homeworking.

If you are one of the 30 institutions to have expressed an interest, we would like to keep you fully informed regarding the progress of the various stages of the contract award process.

The coronavirus crisis is having a major impact on the way universities and colleges are working. In order to allow its students to remotely attend and review lessons, the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) will use a podcast service in the new academic year. The university approached Belnet to implement this service quickly.

290/5000 Last June, we conducted a survey of our community in order to know their opinion on the modification and / or creation of certain security services and more particularly the Belnet DDoS Mitigation service and the potential future DNS filtering and eduVPN services.

This month, BNIX (Belgian National Internet eXchange) celebrates its 25th anniversary. BNIX was set up in 1995 by Belnet and started at the time - as the Internet was slowly emerging - with six participants and one Point of Presence. 25 years later, 58 participants are connected to the platform and BNIX has three Points of Presence (Interxion in Zaventem, LCL in Diegem and CenturyLink in Evere).