Security and privacy ICT facilities

Students, teachers and researchers benefit from a secure online environment. Security services can help and offer many advantages. SURF provides you with affordable and secure services. These services are developed especially for and by institutions.

Create your own security campaign with Cybersave Yourself

Make your staff and students aware of internet dangers with this handy toolkit and prevent privacy and security incidents.

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SURFcert: 24/7 support in case of security incidents

SURFcert provides your institute with security-incident support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

SURFcertificaten: encrypted connections to your web servers

SURFcertificaten ('SURFcertificates') provides several types of certificates for users at affiliated institutions.

Protect your e-mail and stop spam with SURFmailfilter

SURFmailfilter protects against viruses, phishing and spam. SURFmailfilter detects at least 95% of spam. Start protecting your e-mail today!

SURFsecureID: extra security with two-factor authentication

With SURFsecureID, you can also secure access to online services via two-factor authentication. This is important for services with sensitive data.

SURFaudit

Has your institution organised the security and continuity of its company data, and the privacy of its users?

eduVPN: facilitate secure internet access everywhere

eduVPN makes untrusted networks secure, by establishing an encrypted connection, even if users are using the Internet connection on a train.

Secure login to your website with tiqr

Do you want visitors to your website to log in quickly and securely? Then use tiqr, SURF's open-source authentication system.

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

The new European privacy legislation has been in place since 25 May 2016: the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

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Information security

SURF helps institutions of higher education to secure information. We develop common policies and tools.

Policy support

How can you as an institution set up a good policy for privacy or security? Colleague institutions preceded you and, together with SURF, produced a large number of documents and publications.

Making policy for privacy
Making policiy for security

Security communities

Fight cyber threats together with other security experts in the SCIRT-community

Develop guidelines to improve information security together with other information security officers, in SCIPR.

Innovation

SURF is constantly developing security services and we are working on standards for secure (cloud) services.

See all security innovations

Meetings

Keeping up with security and privacy? See which meetings you can attend at SURF
To the agenda

To the agenda (in Dutch)

Onderzoekers in workshop met beeldscherm

Datasharing policy for research

SURF is involved in scientific research about networks and security. This may mean that SURF shares data with universities, such as traffic data. SURFnet has drawn up a datasharing policy (pdf) for this purpose.

For privacy issues, there is the National Coordination Point Research Data Management.

Cyber threat assessment 2018

What were the main cyber threats in 2018?

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