Information Security (InfoSec) Special Interest Group

The EUNIS InfoSec group is focused on the current challenges of the information security field. The changing threat landscape of academic IT as well as the recently renewed privacy legislation present new challenges for many higher education organizations. The InfoSec group aims to share knowledge about information security development and compliance, as well as solutions to support the implementation of ISO 27001 and the GDPR.

One of the tracks at the EUNIS Annual Congress is devoted to ICT infrastructure & Security. InfoSec group aims to continue this theme by working with some of the most interesting topics with IT security professionals from member organizations.

The objectives of the InfoSec SIG are to:

  • discuss the higher education information security and privacy challenges and present
    and share ways of solving those challenges;
  • support ISO 27001 and GDPR implementations in the member organizations;
  • share knowledge on typical information security threats, countermeasures as well as
    technical solutions;
  • follow up on the threat landscape as well as the development of new privacy legislation;
  • build a network of higher education information security and data protection professionals.

Regular meetings

The InfoSec group meets every 2 months for the informal virtual coffee breaks to discuss the hot topics in the area of information security in HEIs.  If you wish to attend this meetings, please contact the SIG leaders (Join the Team section).

Upcoming pre-Congress workshop:

Recent workshops

Outputs from the recent workshops

2024

Online workshops on AI:

EUNIS24 pre-Congress workshops on 4 June 2024 were focused on”Security challenges and the benefits of AI”. See below the presentations from this meeting:

2023

EUNIS23 pre-Congress workshops:

  • “Cyber security: implementing Zero Trust and ISO 27000” on 13 June 2023.  Read more here.
  • “Security and privacy assessment of ELMO/EMREX” on 13 June 2023. Read more here.

2022

  • EUNIS InfoSec online workshop on vulnerability testing on Feb 2022. Read more here.

2021

EUNIS21 Congress workshops:

  • “Home Alone: information security for remote learners and workers” on 3 June 2021. Read more here.

2020

  • “How to Make Cloud Services Secure” on 3  November 2020. Read the outputs from the workshop here.
  • “Data Protection and Cloud Services” on 27 October 2020. Read the outputs from the workshop here.
  • GDPR and Information Security workshop, University of Malaga, Spain on 27-28 January 2020. Read the outputs of the workshop here.

2019

  • How to hack a Web Application: To protect against hackers, you have to think as one! EUNIS pre-Congress workshop, 4 June 2019, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway.

2018

  • EUNIS GDPR and Information Security workshop was held at Brunel University, London, UK on 10-11 December 2018.

2017

workJoin the InfoSec Special Interest Group​

If you would like to be involved into the activities of the Information Security group, please contact the SIG Leaders: thorsten.kuefer@eunis.org or asbjorn.thorsen@eunis.org.

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