UM wins prize for transparancy regarding cyber attack
Maastricht University has won the SURF Security and Privacy Award. The prize has been awarded for the open way in which the university shared its knowledge and experience about the serious ransomware attack that took place just before Christmas 2019.
The award is an initiative of SURF, a cooperative association of Dutch education and research institutions that collaborates on ICT facilities and innovation to fully utilize the opportunities offered by digitization.
The university has made every effort to share experiences with the cyber attack with fellow organisations and other stakeholders. This happened with a symposium on February 5, 2020, in which the lessons learned were shared. This open approach, which fits well with a university and which is the work of many UM employees, has now been rewarded with the Security and Privacy Award.
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