South African NREN CSIRT attains FIRST membership
The South African NREN CSIRT is the 4th South African team to join FIRST which currently has a membership of 520 teams across the globe. The team entry can be seen on the FIRST members webpage.
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SANReN Cyber Security Challenge 2019: Winners
SANReN hosted its third Cyber Security Challenge during the CHPC National Meeting 2019 at the Birchwood Hotel and OR Tambo Conference Centre in Kempton Park, from 01 to 04 December 2019.
SA NREN parallel event at CHPC National Conference 2019
The South African National Research Network (SANReN) hosted a parallel event at the CHPC National Conference 2019 on the 3rd December 2019 at the Birchwood Hotel and OR Tambo Conference Centre in Kempton Park.
SANReN Cyber Security Challenge 2019 in full swing
SANReN is hosting its third Cyber Security Challenge during the CHPC National Meeting 2019 at the Birchwood Hotel and OR Tambo Conference Centre in Kempton Park from the 01 to 04 December 2019.
SANReN Network Security Grant Call 2019 – closed
SANReN herewith requests proposals from South African public universities to host a grant programme that is designed to assist post-graduate students performing research in the fields of network security. This grant programme is aimed at:
- supporting applied research in the field of network security, with a specific focus on the application thereof in the NREN domain; and
- developing a pipeline of graduates skilled and capable in network security
Funding will be awarded to the university that is deemed to be most capable of leading Masters and PhD level graduate students, as well as post-doctoral researchers in the field of network security.
Details of the research focus areas, eligibility criteria, application requirements and evaluation process:
Universities that wish to apply for the grant programme can submit their proposals to Dr Renier van Heerden at renier@sanren.ac.za
Closing date: 1 July 2019.
SANReN attends 4th AENEAS all-hands meeting
SANReN, represented by Dr Renier van Heerden, participated in the 4th AENEAS All-hands meeting during 5-7 March 2019, hosted by the University of Manchester.
The objective of the AENEAS project is to develop a concept and design for a distributed, federated European Science Data Centre (ESDC) to support the astronomical community in achieving the scientific goals of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA).
Further details of the meeting: https://indico.astron.nl/conferenceDisplay.py?ovw=True&confId=198
The AENEAS project is a H2020 project that runs from 1 January 2017