sCSC 2025

Thematic CERN School of Computing
6-12 April 2025
Cosener’s House – Abingdon, UK


tCSC Security 2025

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

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