Category: Volunteer Network


  • Cybersecurity Clinic

    Cybersecurity Clinic

    Cybersecurity experts are lacking in number and diversity of skills. The “Cybersecurity Clinic” concept, first conceptualized by the Cybersecurity Consortium at Berkeley and financially supported by Google, tries to tackle this issue by engaging students from various backgrounds. Under the supervision of competent facilitators – experts from academia and the industry – the cyberclinic seeks…

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  • DSI Insights: A “cyber militia” for the canton of Zurich

    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

    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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  • Kick Off CYREN ZH

    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…

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