Security

In an academic environment, where innovation and openness are central, the risks from cyber threats are particularly high. Belgium's largest university, KU Leuven, has been proactively raising awareness and training its more than 15,000 staff members for years. With success, as the e-mune programme has become a strong brand at the university. GÉANT was curious about its approach and visited Sofie Pieraerd, a member of the management team for ICTS – KU Leuven's central IT department – and Karel Titeca, responsible for communications within ICTS.

October is just around the corner and, as usual, that means paying extra attention to information security. European Cybersecurity Month is THE opportunity to inform and raise awareness among your colleagues and end-users and turn them into true cyber heroes. Still looking for inspiration? If so, we'd like to explain two interesting initiatives to which we at Belnet are lending our active support.

For several years now, Belnet has been supporting the annual information security awareness campaign of the pan-European research network GÉANT. The 'human factor' is in fact a crucial element in the fight against security incidents. It is no different for research and educational institutions.