For several years now, the digital revolution has radically changed people's daily lives, both their private and work lives. The use of the Internet and its services has become indispensable for interaction between people and a priority for all companies that want to remain competitive on the market. Although digitalization...

In a previous blog post i explained the link between trust, misinformation and user behavior. Two major points follow from that text: The first is that trust is an invisible enabler of the socio-technical interactions within a system, whereas misinformation (or information disorder/pollution in general) is a tangible disabler of...

Demonstrating the DDoS Clearing House in a representative simulated environment Authors: Thijs van den Hout (1), Remco Poortinga - van Wijnen (2), Cristian Hesselman (1, 3), Christos Papachristos (4), Karin Vink (1) SIDN, the Netherlands SURF, the Netherlands University of Twente, the Netherlands FORTH, Greece We have created a distributed...

All future global market-dominant products and services will likely be located in the digital world, in cyberspace, or at least interact strongly with it. Cybersecurity is the pillar of the digital society and the guarantee of trust and cooperation. Therefore, cybersecurity and its roadmap cannot be analysed only from a...

The goal of this document is to describe a network protocol QUIC from the perspective of network monitoring. Compared to the existing protocols, QUIC has several differences that we encountered when trying to monitor it. In addition to the description of the protocol, the article contains information from measuring the...

Cloud computing encapsulates IT resources to be delivered as services over the network. As a result, Cloud customers can purchase and configure Cloud services on-demand with minimal expenses or management overhead. In spite of the benefits, Cloud systems are susceptible to a variety of security issues, e.g., unauthorized accesses or...

Several activities within CONCORDIA build and improve trusted ecosystems with the goal to provide impact and sustainability for communities. Besides Threat Intelligence Platform and DDoS Clearing House, CONCORDIA‘s ecosystem has this focus by providing lab infrastructures, services, and training. As CONCORDIA takes a holistic and scalable approach to cyber security,...

Ten years after the Bitcoin whitepaper was published, the term "blockchain" is still primarily associated with cryptocurrencies. Rightly so, one might say, as the added value is inextricably linked to the underlying data structure of Bitcoin. However, there is also an increase in the number of voices pursuing the use...