Category: Feature
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DSI Insights: A “cyber militia” for the canton of Zurich
“Every day we receive countless emails, most of which are fortunately unsuccessful, in which criminals try to get our passwords, credit card details or other sensitive data, or to blackmail us. Even organisations are not immune to cyber attacks. Almost every day we read about successful cyber-attacks on companies and government agencies. But how can…
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Mosaic “Digitalisation” – Digital Society Initiative and CYREN
Melanie Knieps, Principal Investigator at CYRENZH, explains in a Security Awareness Insider podcast what the Digital Society Initiative (DSI) and the Digitalisation Initiative of the Universities of Zurich (DIZH) are – and what CYRENZH has to do with them.Thanks to Katja Dörlemann and Marcus B. for the wonderful conversation and the fascinating questions. We can…
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Cyber-Defence Campus: Working Together To Strengthen Switzerland’s Cybersecurity
As part of the CYRENZH and DSI Cybersecurity Community event series, we had the pleasure to welcome Bernhard Tellenbach. Bernhard is the head of the cyber security team of armasuisse Science and Technology’s Cyber-Defence Campus. In his presentation, Bernhard first provided a general introduction into the mission of the Cyber-Defence Campus, which includes early identification of trends in…
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PhD Network’s First Meeting
The CYRENZH Ph.D. Network in Cybersecurity aims to connect excellent students with a master’s degree, supervisors, and funding opportunities and to facilitate interdisciplinary research. The launch meeting of the network was a great success. Novice and senior researchers from the domains of mathematics, engineering, computer science, and psychology took this opportunity to exchange ideas on…
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Welcome to Our New Website
We are thrilled to announce the launch of our brand-new website! Dive into our blog posts on our activities, check out our latest publications or register for our newsletter and events. We will post all of CYRENZH‘s progress and information on our website. By subscribing to our newsletter you can enjoy early access to new…
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Introducing our P.h.D. Network
We are happy to announce the CYRENZH Ph.D. Network in Cybersecurity. Our goal to connect excellent students with a master’s degree, supervisors, and funding opportunities and facilitate interdisciplinary research. The network is a “proof of principle” and a precursor to a potential “Cybersecurity Ph.D. Program”. Therefore, the network currently relies on bringing together interested students…
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How to get to an organization that nurtures resilience
CYRENZH and DSI Cybersecurity Community launched their event series with Karen Renaud’s (University of Strathclyde) keynote on human-centered cybersecurity. In her keynote, Karen provided a comprehensive account of her extensive research and encouraged us to challenge outdated assumptions about the role of people in cybersecurity. Rather than relying on strict regulations and productivity-oriented rewards to promote…
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Launching our event series
CYRENZH and DSI Cybersecurity Community are officially launching their event series! Karen Renaud will be joining us in May to share her insights into human-centered cybersecurity. Karen is a Reader at the University of Strathclyde, where she dedicates her research to the interaction between humans and security, particularly in societal and industrial applications. She is interested…
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Thierry Schaltegger on “the human factor”
Our PhD student Thierry Schaltegger talked about “the human factor” on podcast #25 of the think tank Unchain Your Mind: Human factor: How do we deal with cyber risks? Thierry Schaltegger discusses these and other exciting questions in the new podcast with Unchain Your Mind. Listen now on:SoundcloudSpotify Source
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Kick Off CYREN ZH
On November 30th, the Cyber Resilience Network For The Canton Of Zurich (CYRENZH ) was officially launched. The mission of CYRENZH , which is one of the successful applicants of the structural call of DIZH (Digitization Initiative of Zurich Universities), is to promote #knowledge exchange and #collaboration between actors from the public and private sectors as well as civil society. CYRENZH is a a…