CLUSSIL and GdT CASES

A few days ago, Secaron was invited by the CLUSSIL to participate in the first “Group de travail CASES” meeting. Some of us, Anne-France, Manu and myself, went to this meeting which was animated and interesting. But what is Cases?

CASES (Cyberworld Awareness Security Enhancement Structure) is a project by the Luxembourgish Ministry of economy which aims at make users aware of the dangers related to Information security. It operates through an Internet portal, trainings, and a anonymous alerting structure. One of its goal is to highlight, in an easy-to-understand and sanitized language, what’s at stake for the citizens and the SME. On another level, Cases is also completely integrated in a european structure that deals with the same problematic.

During the meeting, we were introduced to CasiX which is actually the tool that enable the Cases Nodes to put in place the necessary structure to anonymously report alerts and communicate with the the Cases control center.

It ended with a relatively animated question session that allowed the participants to order the CasiX CDs to test it. So did we . For more information about the Cases initative and CasiX framework, please visit http://www.cases.public.lu/ and http://casix.cases-cc.org/.