SCION technology offers senders and recipients of data full control over which parties are allowed to use the communications network and the path for transporting the data. This new solution offers effective protection to keep cybercriminals from accessing or intercepting data. Centres of research and innovation transfer enormous volumes of sensitive, even groundbreaking information over the data network. With the new SCION offering from SWITCH, universities can now benefit from improved security, availability and performance when transferring their data over the SWITCH network.
SCI-ED successfully completed
The recently completed SCI-ED project has proven the effectiveness of secure, high-availability data communication between the institutions of the ETH Domain. The two Federal Institutes of Technology ETH Zurich and EPFL, as well as their research institutes PSI, WSL, Empa, Eawag and CSCS, began testing the SCION architecture with various applications in late 2019. In addition to the regular internet connection, SWITCH also provided a SCION-based connection on their high-performance network.
Secure Swiss Finance Network
To further increase cybersecurity for the Swiss financial sector, the Swiss National Bank and SIX Group are simultaneously launching the new Secure Swiss Finance Network (SSFN) communication network, which is also based on SCION architecture developed at ETH Zurich. As a technology partner, SWITCH has contributed its many years of experience as a network operator of the Swiss universities and has helped to shape SSFN.
Poor security on the commercial internet
The internet was developed without native security mechanisms. Cyber criminals are exploiting vulnerabilities to such a degree that today cyber threats dominate the risk map. As a world leader in innovation, Switzerland has an education, research and innovation community that particularly benefits from secure, stable and powerful data communications.
Organisations interested in a SCION-based internet connection can contact the SWITCH network team directly.
