#eduVPN case study: Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Part 2)

University adopted eduVPN as its sole remote-access system for the entire institutional community.

For Ca’ Foscari, choosing a solution designed specifically by and for the R&E community and supported in Italy by GARR was an important step in aligning remote access with its broader digital infrastructure.

Stefano Claut shares more about the transition.

🔗 Read the full story: https://connect.geant.org/2026/02/23/case-study-ca-foscari-university-of-venice-boosts-remote-access-with-eduvpn

#eduVPN case study: Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Part 1)

Ca’ Foscari University of Venice has adopted eduVPN as its sole remote-access system for the entire institutional community.

👇 Check the highlights below from the case study

🔗 Read the full story: https://connect.geant.org/2026/02/23/case-study-ca-foscari-university-of-venice-boosts-remote-access-with-eduvpn

📷 Picture in the carousel by kallerna on Wikimedia. CC BY-SA https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en

More than 230 universities and research institutions use #eduVPN as their corporate VPN solution.

But what makes them choose it?

We asked Tuukka Vainio from the University of Turku to walk us through their journey of why they chose eduVPN and what it changed for students, researchers and staff.

See highlights from the case study below 👇

🔗 Read the full story: https://connect.geant.org/2026/01/21/eduvpn-case-study-university-of-turku-improved-the-performance-and-security-of-remote-access-systems

🛡️ 25 years of security in #Research & #Education

For over two decades, GÉANT & the European NREN community have helped shape the R&E #security landscape, combining technical expertise with deep community collaboration.

In this #CONNECT50 article, @RosannaCrama & @alfmoens look back at this evolution, from early community roots to today’s more strategic security landscape.

🔗 Read the full story: https://connect.geant.org/2025/10/13/25-years-of-security-in-research-education

#cyberSecurity #securityAwareness #NRENs #eduVPN #incidentresponse

Endlich führt die Uni #WireGuard über #EduVPN ein – und wir sind sehr begeistert! 🎉 Danke an das URZ, dass die Uni aus der #Cisco‑ASA‑Monopol‑Abhängigkeit löst und damit mehr Sicherheit & #Freiheit für uns Studis schafft. Open‑Source‑Lösungen stärken Transparenz und #Unabhängigkeit. 🙏🚀

#ciscoASA #CVE202520333 #CVE202520362 #StaySafeOnline #SecurityAwareness #UniVPN #CampusNetwork #GPLv2 #URZ #AntiMonopoly

Browsing the new #Mastodon 4.5.1 version‼️

✅ Authentication with 2FA from open source #Tiqr
✅ Running open source #eduVPN
✅ and using my functional Mastodon Group account with SLURF (also open source available for Single Sign On fans)

It’s preaching to the choir here… but all 180 higher education and research institutions in the Netherlands 🇳🇱 can use Mastodon with their institutional account. Just pick a nickname and enjoy the #fediverse… ➡️ social.edu.nl ⬅️

Props to
💙 @quartje
❤️ @twijs

Wherever students, researchers or staff are working from, they should have secure access to the resources they need.

#eduVPN makes that possible.

Created by and for the R&E community, it provides secure off-campus access to library systems, journals, specialised databases and more.

Already used by 200+ institutions in 20+ countries.

🔗 Learn how to get started: https://connect.geant.org/2025/10/20/extending-secure-access-to-academic-resources-with-eduvpn

#cyberSecurity #DataProtection #VPN

Preparing a small update for eduVPN 3.x. We are mostly working on 4.x now, so the development of 3.x is slowing down, but 3.x will keep receiving fixed and small updates for the foreseeable future!

#eduVPN #NREN #GÉANT #vpn