Thematic CERN School of Computing
27 September – 3 October 2026
Cosener’s House – Abingdon, UK
tCSC Security 2026
This school is organized by CERN in collaboration with UKRI Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) and will be hosted at the Cosener’s House located in the grounds of the medieval Abbey of Abingdon, eight miles from Oxford.
Academic programme
The school will focus on the theme of Security of research computing infrastructures. The complete programme will offer 27 hours of lectures, workshops and hands-on exercises, as well as a student presentations session, and special evening lectures. Classes are prepared and given by speakers who are security professionals with many years of experience in academia and research.
(Please note that this programme may be subject to minor changes.)
Security in research and scientific computing
Risk management
Security architecture
Application security
Identity, authentication, authorisation
Virtualisation and cloud security
Container security
Vulnerability management
Logging and traceability
Intrusion detection with SOC
Security operations
Incident response management
Digital forensics
