Based on a review of the Cybersecurity capabilities, service offerings and strategic directions of global leading Research and Education Networks (e.g. Internet2, AARNET, SURFnet, NORDUnet, JISC, Geant), explain your understanding of the current trends prevalent at such organizations in this domain.
2. Given the current Cybersecurity capabilities and services offerings of SANReN (see https://www.sanren.ac.za and https://csirt.sanren.ac.za) and its network operator, TENET (https://www.tenet.ac.za), provide your high-level strategic plan for growing this portfolio within SANReN over the next 2 to 5 years.
3. SANReN, together with the Data Intensive Research Initiative of South Africa (DIRISA) (https://www.dirisa.ac.za) and the Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC) (https://www.chpc.ac.za), form the National Integrated Cyberinfrastructure System (NICIS) (https://nicis.ac.za). NICIS services the networking, computing and data storage needs of South Africa’s higher education and science communities. Provide your high-level strategic plan to expand the SANReN Cybersecurity capability to support the entire NICIS and its beneficiary community over the next 2 to 5 years.