PKI (Privacy, Knowledge security and Information security)

Privacy

Privacy is a shield that helps you to protect your personal data; it gives you the choice what you do and do not share with others.

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) prescribes how organizations such as NWO-I should handle personal data. NWO-I must be able to demonstrate that it adheres to the GDPR. One of the important responsibilities is that NWO-I informs the people whose personal data the organization processes as well as possible

Each Institute and the NWO-I office has a privacy coordinator and a privacy team, who together with all other colleagues ensure that NWO-I complies with the GDPR.
NWO-I also has a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and a Data Protection Officer (DPO).

Do you suspect a security incident or data breach? Always report it!

Knowledge security

Knowledge security is a broad term. It can be divided into 3 main categories:

1. Undesired knowledge transfer: the transfer of knowledge and technologies as a result of which the national security (and sometimes the competitive strength) of the Netherlands can be threatened.
2. Interference: (covert) influencing of academic education and research by or from within other states; as a result of this, academic freedom and the safety of students and researchers can be put under pressure.
3. Ethics/integrity: collaboration with researchers in countries where the government does not or does not sufficiently respect human rights.

The NWO-I knowledge security policy aims to ensure that our research collaborations take place in a safe environment, that the ‘crown jewels’ are protected against undesired transfers and that scientific integrity and academic freedom are safeguarded. The motto is: “Open if possible and protected if necessary”.

Contact

Each NWO Institute has its own contact person for knowledge security . The names of these contact persons are listed on your institute’s intranet.

Would you like to know more about knowledge security at NWO-I? Then please continue to read on the page about knowledge security.