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  • CYBERUNITY Demonstration: Advancing Security through Federated Cyber Ranges

    CYBERUNITY Demonstration: Advancing Security through Federated Cyber Ranges

    Mark your calendars! We are excited to invite you to the CYBERUNITY Demonstration: Advancing Security through Federated Cyber Ranges on October 30th, 2024, organized by the EU-funded CYBERUNITY project. As part of the Cybersecurity Awareness Month campaign, this event will bring together experts from academia, industry, and other EU-funded initiatives to showcase the latest advancements…


  • Save the Date: “Fortifying Defences” – Cybersecurity Initiatives & Blue Teaming Strategies

    Save the Date: “Fortifying Defences” – Cybersecurity Initiatives & Blue Teaming Strategies

    Mark your calendars! We are thrilled to invite you to an exciting event as part of Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Join us for an engaging session where we’ll unveil key initiatives for the Cybersecurity Awareness month, provide hands-on Blue Teaming Training focused on intrusion detection, and dive into technical presentations on validating Rust binaries and Web…


  • CYNET-CSIRT: Experiences and best practices in founding an Academic CSIRT

    CYNET-CSIRT: Experiences and best practices in founding an Academic CSIRT

    With the completion of the project “Establishment of the Cypriot Academic CSIRT” we are delighted to invite you to join us in an online conference entitled ‘CYNET-CSIRT: Experiences and best practices in founding an Academic CSIRT’ on 7th December, 2021. During the conference you will be updated on the achievements of the CYNET-CSIRT and what…


  • CYNET-CSIRT: A successfully funded CEF-Telecom project has come to an end… But it’s only the beginning!

    Action number 2017-CY-IA-0121, under the Agreement INEA/CEF/ICT/A2017/1528701 “Establishment of Cypriot Academic CSIRT”, commenced on 1st September 2018 and was completed on 31st May 2021. With the completion of the Action, the Academic CSIRT of Cyprus, namely CYNET-CSIRT, has been fully established. During this period, CYNET-CSIRT has fulfilled its obligations and has managed to build a…


  • New Training event: Hack Attacks: Offensive Persistent Techniques and Detection Patterns

    New Training event: Hack Attacks: Offensive Persistent Techniques and Detection Patterns

    We are delighted to announce that the Academic CSIRT (CYNET-CSIRT) is organising a new training event, which will be presented on Wednesday 19th May 2021, from 9:00 to 14:00. The event is entitled “Hack Attacks: Offensive Persistent Techniques and Detection Patterns” and will, once again, run online. During the training, there will be presentations on…


  • Save the Date! Security Operations and Awereness: APT, Web Apps and Indicators of Compromise

    Save the Date! Security Operations and Awereness: APT, Web Apps and Indicators of Compromise

    It’s with great pleasure that we’d like to announce to you that CYNET-CSIRT is organizing a Cyber Drill, with collaboration with silensec, on Friday 9th and Monday 12th of April 2021. It is important that you all register on the platform (see below) by Wednesday 7th April, so that we will be all set and…


  • Malware Analysis & Digital Forensics Cybersecurity event

    Malware Analysis & Digital Forensics Cybersecurity event

    We are delighted to announce that CYNET-CSIRT, in collaboration with ENISA, is organising a 2-day virtual training event, with the contribution of the University of Cyprus, the European University and the National CSIRT-CY between 25 and 26 November 2020. The event will take place on the ZOOM videoconferencing platform and it will be a hands-on…


  • CYNET-CSIRT featured in GEANT’s Lightning Talk Challenge

    The Lightning Talk Challenge is a GÉANT initiative in which bright students are trained to master their presentation skills and craft their ideas into a 5-minutes’ Lightning Talk to deliver to the wide community attending TNC every year. Organised by GLAD, the GÉANT Learning and Development team, this challenge is part of the broader Future Talent Programme.…


  • CYNET-CSIRT presented in 13th CEF Cybersecurity Governance Board

    CYNET-CSIRT presented in 13th CEF Cybersecurity Governance Board

    For the 12th, CEF Governance board, CYNET’s Cyber Security Analyst, Ms. Panayiota Smyrli gave a 15-miute presentation of the action, its objectives, its outcomes and also the lessons learned.


  • Cybersecurity improves for Ukrainian R&E in EaPConnect cooperation with Cyprus

    Cybersecurity improves for Ukrainian R&E in EaPConnect cooperation with Cyprus

    It’s with great honor to inform you that CYNET-CSIRT has collaborated with URAN, the Ukrainian Research and Academic Network and formed a collaboration within the EU-funded EaPConnect project.   CYNET has provided useful guidance to the URAN teams in weekly video calls in which they shared their expertise, recommended the best network security methods, and…