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Last week, Cyber Europe 2024, a major pan-European exercise simulating cyber attacks, was held. This two-day event brought together 26 EU Member States, including a team from CESNET. The Cyber Europe series is designed to boost Europe’s readiness for large-scale cybersecurity incidents. Learn more about the event here. 

We are looking for new colleagues! We are strengthening our team that builds data services for science and research in the Czech Republic and we have 4 new positions open: Key activity leader Common components and services of the National Data Infrastructure (NDI),  DevOps / System Administrator for Data (m/f),  Tester - National Repository Platform (m/f),  Backend developer - National Repository Platform (m/f).  Did any of them interest you? Take a look at the career. 

CESNET and representatives of the Lobkowicz family signed a memorandum of cooperation aimed at digitizing the family's art collections and making them accessible to the general public.

How to navigate safely on the Internet? My colleague Aleš Padrta spoke on Czech Radio Pilsen about how to be in control in the online environment. You can listen to the whole interview here. 

Colleagues were part of the team that participated in the world's largest international cyber security exercise - Locked Shields 2024. The exercise took place on 23-25 April, organised by the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence and was attended by more than 4 000 participants from 40 countries. A team from the Czech Republic placed in the top third. More information can be found on the NUKIB website, which coordinated the exercise for the Czech Republic.

In April 2024 FileSender celebrated its 15th anniversary. It officially started 15 years ago as a joint project of the NRENs from Norway, Australia and Ireland. Today FileSender is deployed as a national R&E service in more than 45 countries and has been selected for the file transfer functionality of the EU Node of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). More information.