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Air Navigation Services Finland Oy (ANS Finland) cybersecurity exercise in 2018

ANS Finland performed a cybersecurity exercise with JYVSECTEC 24 -25 January 2018. The aim of the exercise was to test the operation modes of the organization in accordance with the company specifications, learn to identify cyber risks and communicate with our co-operation partners. As early as in the planning phase of the exercise, we detected […]

Kaisanet prepares for cyber-attacks with exercises

Cyber incidents can be prepared for and threats mitigated through technology and technical expertise of personnel. Not all threats can be completely stopped beforehand. When technology and expertise of personnel are in good order then actions during a cyber-attack can be effectively exercised. The theme of the exercise is to block an attack and minimize […]

RGCE organizational environments

JYVSECTEC’s cyber range RGCE has been in development since 2011 aiming to provide a realistic exercise environment for organizations of different sizes and industry sectors. In recent years, the development has focused on building multiple business sector specific organization environments, which mimic technical and business functions of real organizations. These environments also have realistic dependencies with each […]

JYVSECTEC at Subcontracting fair on September

We are participating in Subcontracting trade fair on 26. – 28.9.2017 held in Tampere. This year Subcontracting trade fair is focusing on the theme of the partnership network which is continuously growing in significance. Nowadays companies have requirements for information-safe operating methods. Welcome to our stand C 222 to network and hear about how knowing […]

FINCSC incorporated as part of the Implementation Programme for Finland’s Cyber Security Strategy

On 20 April 2017, the Security Committee approved the Implementation Programme for Finland’s Cyber Security Strategy for 2017–2020 that had been under preparation since the spring of 2016. The implementation programme is a continuation to the first implementation programme approved in 2014. The implementation programme now approved examines the development of cyber security in the […]

Experiences of the ECSO WG4 (SME group) meeting

I am representing JAMK University of Applied Sciences in the ECSO Working Group 4 (WG4), which deals with SME issues. I participated the first WG4 meeting on December 2016. The main task for the WG4 is to support SMEs, coordination with countries (in particular East EU) and regions. Institute of Information Technology and JYVSECTEC from […]

Cyber exercises for operators in the industry sector was piloted

The scope of JYVSECTEC’s cyber exercise activities expands to also cover industrial automation environments. As part of the the cyber exercise arranged at JAMK on 15–16 February 2017, the Finnish national electricity transmission grid operator Fingrid Oyj and power grid company Elenia Oy piloted a new cyber security exercise targeted at operators in the industry […]

The Director of Institute of Information Technology has changed

Jarmo Siltanen’s, director of JAMK’s Institute of Information Technology, employment at JAMK University of Applied Sciences has ended. He will be replaced by Jari Hautamäki. This change has no effect on the Institute of Information Technology’s or JYVSECTEC’s operation. JYVSECTEC will continue its’ determined work on information and cyber security. We thank Jarmo Siltanen for […]

Cyber exercising to enhance performance

First of all, I will have to confess right at the beginning that my over 30-year career at the Finnish Defence Forces in duties related to cyber security, etc. cannot but show in this text as well. At the Defence Forces, matters related to cyber security had already been systematically developed for decades, long before […]

Cyber Challenge 2015

Cyber Challenge 2015 was held in connection with Cyber Security & ICT 2015 Exhibition in the congress centre Jyväskylän Paviljonki from 23 to 25 September 2015 and it was open to all fairgoers. We were involved in the challenge as one of the promoters with our two different kinds of puzzles that could be performed […]