News in brief

Jun 10, 2020

New SWITCH Journal May 2020

The spring issue of the twice-yearly SWITCH Journal is now available in printed form. It deals with the topic of innovation management. All of the articles can also be found online: How innovation works – the SWITCH way Tackling...

Jun 5, 2020

Tom Kleiber to become Managing Director of SWITCH

Tom Kleiber will succeed Andreas Dudler, who is stepping down after nine years as Managing Director of SWITCH and retiring at the end of 2021. He will take up his new post on 1 January 2021.

Apr 27, 2020

SWITCHengines supports coronavirus research

Free computing power and storage to help coronavirus research.

Apr 16, 2020

SWITCH welcomes new Code of Conduct for registrars

The guidelines govern conduct regarding improper registrations and the use of domain names. The new Domain Names Code of Conduct (CCD) was published by the trade association Swico.

Apr 9, 2020

SWITCH Security Report 2020-03/04

The new SWITCH Security Report is online, covering the following topics: The coronavirus has company – a pandemic of computer viruses The ten most important rules for working securely from home Online meetings – how secure are...

Apr 1, 2020

A boost for SWITCHtube

All videos are now being additionally encoded by an external company.

Mar 16, 2020

Coronavirus: expansion of capacities

Now that all Swiss universities have had to discontinue their classroom teaching, the demand for online collaboration tools is growing rapidly. SWITCH is currently focusing on the continuous expansion of capacities for online...

Feb 25, 2020

SWITCH Security Report 2020-01/02

The new SWITCH Security Report is online, covering the following topics: When backdoors become trapdoors: ‘Crypto Leaks’ hits Switzerland, Crypto Valley – and the entire ecosystem I, Robot, ZigBee and IoT Sure, it’s secure! Are you...

Dec 23, 2019

SWITCH Security Report 2019-11/12

The new SWITCH Security Report is online, covering the following topics: Is internal security just an issue for security companies? CNAME cloaking – the new privacy attack Emotet (& others): a devastating malware cocktail – now...

Nov 15, 2019

New members of Committee and Foundation Council

At its meeting on 14 November 2019, the SWITCH Foundation Council defined its members for the next four years. Peter Kofmel was re-elected as independent Chairman. Dr Alexandre Gachet, already a member of the Committee and...