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Four EU cybersecurity organisations enhance cooperation
The Memorandum of Understanding was
signed by Udo Helmbrecht, ENISA’s Executive
Director, Jorge Domecq, Chief Executive of
the EDA, Steven Wilson, Head of EC3 and Ken
Ducatel, CERT-EU’s Acting Head.
The MoU aims at leveraging synergies between
the four organisations, promoting cooperation
on cybersecurity and cyberdefence and is a
testament to the trusted partnership that exists
between these EU agencies.
our EU cybersecurity organisations have
established a cooperation framework. The
European Union Agency for Network and
Information Security (ENISA), the European Defence
Agency (EDA), Europol and the Computer Emergency
Response Team for the EU Institutions, Agencies and
Bodies (CERT-EU) signed a Memorandum of Understanding
(MoU) to enhance their cooperation.
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More specifically, it focuses on five areas of
cooperation, namely exchange of information;
education and training; cyberexercises;
technical cooperation; and strategic and
administrative matters. It also allows for
cooperation in other areas identified as
mutually important by the four organisations. This
collaboration will ensure the best possible use of existing
resources by avoiding duplicative efforts and building on
the complementarity of ENISA, EDA, EUROPOL and CERT-
EU. This framework brings added value to the expertise,
support and services that these parties provide to the
European Union organisations, member states and all
stakeholders concerned.
UNIVERSITY OF NORTHAMPTON TO
TRANSFORM STUDENT EXPERIENCE
WITH CISCO SOLUTION
he University of Northampton
has selected Cisco to help
ensure that its new campus
is digital, intelligent and highly secure
from the outset. The university’s new
£330million Waterside campus, set
to open in September 2018, will be
purpose-built to meet the changing
requirements of students.
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with Cisco will give us the ability to see
and solve issues before they happen,
to support the ambition of our students
and to ensure that as a business we are
competitive in our industry. Cisco has
worked closely with us from the start,
and we are delighted with what we have
been able to achieve collectively so far.”
With actionable visibility into everything
that happens on its network, even in
identifying threats in encrypted traffic,
the university is creating a digital
foundation that will help it rapidly evolve
with the pace of technology change. Intent-based networking represents a
fundamentally different way of building
and managing modern networks. The
integrated system anticipates actions,
is able to stop security threats in their
tracks and continues to learn, adapt
and evolve.
Rob Palfreman, Head of IT Services,
University of Northampton, said: “The
infrastructure that we are deploying The University of Northampton is
deploying key elements of Cisco intent-
based networking technology.
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