Scholarly Networks Security Initiative (SNSI): working together to combat the threat of cybercrime
About SNSI
SNSI brings together publishers and institutions to solve cyber-challenges threatening the integrity of the scientific record, scholarly systems and the safety of institutional and personal data. Members include large and small publishers, learned societies and university presses and others involved in scholarly communications.
The Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences announced on Monday it was targeted by “a serious hacker attack” that has led to a total shutdown of its IT systems.
July 10, 2024Education was the most breached sector in April 2024.
June 26, 2024What is Keeping University Chief Information Security Officers Up at Night. Visit The Scholarly Kitchen to find out!
April 27, 2023SNSI commissioned SHIFT LEARNING - a global-minded independent research agency, specializing in evidence-based market research around education, higher education, and sustainability to administer our global survey of academic librarians to understand their views on cybercrime and what they thought about Sci-Hub.
March 15, 2022Contact Us
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From Threats to Solutions: Cybersecurity in Academic Libraries – an SNSI Security Summit, Tuesday 8 October
August 30, 2024SNSI presentation at the UN STI Forum on Digital Threats to the achievement of the SDGs: Libraries as the target on May 9, 2024. Jump to 7:15 to catch the presentation by Gwen Evans.
May 02, 2024SLA 2024 - Cyber-attacks and Information Content. What's your Game Plan? Join Helen Josephine, Seema Rampersad and Emily Singley on Sunday 14 July.
June 26, 2024Join SNSI colleagues at NASIG 2024. John Felts and Matthew Ragucci will present a session 'Mitigating Unauthorised Access: Strengthening Collaboration between Libraries and Publishers'. Thursday, June 6 • 4:00pm - 5:00pm PDT.
May 28, 2024Working together
Cybersecurity isn't just an issue for publishers. It isn't just a challenge for librarians. It is not just an obstacle for institutions or nuisance for researchers. This is an issue for all of us, and a problem we firmly believe can be best addressed sustainably and effectively together. SNSI has been formed to help address this. Several librarians, representatives from leading organizations and other key stakeholders have kindly agreed to provide SNSI with independent advice and feedback on our program, which will be turned into tangible actions the group takes. |
Publishers and librarians have a good record of collaboration to solve real pain points experienced by researchers and students, examples of recent cooperation include:
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Did you know?
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre lists the education sector as the 3rd largest target for cybercrime, ahead of retail.
Fake websites and login pages linked to 76 university library systems around the world.
Universities and institutions across 41 countries have had their networks and data comprised by illegal website SciHub.
The ransom a leading medical-research institution working on a cure for Covid-19 had to pay when its servers were hacked.