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.

SURFsoc: raising information security together

One single point of contact for joint services that detect and prevent security incidents. Furthermore, SURFsoc monitors cyber threats and attacks.

SURFaudit: know your information security and privacy

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

SURFdomeinen: register and manage domain names yourself

The online SURFdomeinen service makes it easy for ICT administrators to register and migrate Internet domains and to manage the DNS.

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

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

Information security

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

Cybersecurity verdient je aandacht

Samenwerken aan cybersecurity is noodzakelijk als je onderzoek en onderwijs betrouwbaar wil laten functioneren in Nederland (en wereldwijd).

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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.

Crisisoefening (N)OZON

Cybercrisisoefening OZON en de tabletop versie NOZON.

Bereid je voor op een cybercrisis en ontdek of jouw instelling goed is voorbereid!

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Privacy by design

Hulpmiddel om je dienst of product al vanaf het ontwerp zo privacyvriendelijk mogelijk in te richten.

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Overige security-innovaties

SURF vernieuwt voortdurend. Op dit moment ontwikkelen we beveiligingsdiensten, een bewustwordingscampagne, en we werken aan normen voor veilige (cloud)diensten.

Bekijk alle innovatieprojecten van SURF

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. SURF has drawn up a Data Sharing Policy (pdf) for this purpose.

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

Cyber threat analysis

What were the main cyber threats in 2019 and what are the trends in 2020?

Read the SURF Cyber threat analysis

Onderzoekers in workshop met beeldscherm

Training courses

Want to keep up to date on security and privacy? Check out the overview of all SURF's training courses in this area.

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