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news 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. F 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. T 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. www.intelligentciso.com | Issue 03 9