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2018-04-11 in NewsServicesUpdates

SA NREN Data Transfer Nodes (DTNs) pilot

Last year we issued a call asking “Can we help you move your data sets?” to find potential use cases for our new data transfer service (see flyer).

We have since set up three Data Transfer Nodes (DTNs) in Cape Town, Johannesburg and Pretoria that are now available to the South African Research and Education community to assist in data transfer movement nationally and internationally as a pilot project on a trial basis.

If you would like to know more about this project, make use of these DTNs to transfer large datasets to and from your institution or know of a project that could benefit from utilising this service, please email engage@sanren.ac.za

For those that already completed our investigation survey, thank you for doing so, as this helped us motivate for the pilot project. Please do reach out to us again if you are still interested.

SANReN PERT Team (pert@sanren.ac.za)

2018-03-20 in CSIRTEventsNews

SANReN Cyber Security Challenge 2018

During 2017 the South African National Research Network (SANReN) initiated the Cyber Security Games project which was aimed at establishing the hosting of an information security student competition with an emphasis on network security. This resulted in the first Cyber Security Challenge 2017 being hosted at the CHPC National Conference 2017.

Building on the success and high interest of the Cyber Security Challenge 2017, SANReN is preparing to host the Cyber Security Challenge 2018 at the CHPC National Conference 2018.

See the final results of the Cyber Security Challenge 2017.

Details of the Cyber Security Challenge 2018 can be found at: https://cybersecuritychallenge.ac.za/

Watch this space for details of when the participant registration portal is open and SANReN is accepting registrations for this years challenge.

2017-12-07 in CSIRTEventsNews

SANReN Cyber Security Challenge 2017: Winners

SANReN hosted its inaugural Cyber Security Challenge at the CHPC National conference 2017.

The competition was split into two rounds:

  • During round one, students competed for positions to compete in the final round. Over one hundred students from seven universities competed in the first round that was hosted during October 2017.
  • During the final round, only 32 students comprising eight teams were placed to compete over a span of fours days from the 3rd to 6th December 2017. Much fun was had by the students during the competition.

The final scoreboard at the end of the competition was as follows:

Overall placement Prizes:

  • First Place: Team BitPhase, University of Stellenbosch
  • Second place: Team Awesome Source, University of Pretoria
  • Third Place: Team H5-N1, University of Pretoria

Specific Challenges:

  • Social Engineering Challenge: Team H5-N1, University of Pretoria
  • Hash Challenge: Team H5-N1, University of Pretoria
  • Hack the Server Challenge: Team Insecure, University of the Western Cape

2017-12-07 in EventsNews

SA NREN parallel event at CHPC National Conference 2017

The South African NREN hosted a parallel event at the CHPC National Conference 2017 on the 5 December 2017.

The following presentations were made:

Session 1:

Session 2:

 

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