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We inform you that we will not implement any upgrades or new services between Wednesday, December 15, 2021 and Monday, January 10, 2022. Please note also that our offices will be closed between Saturday, December 25, 2021 and Sunday, January 2, 2022. Our offices will reopen on Monday, January 3, 2022.

Recently, one of our customers experienced a targeted volumetric DDoS attack. The attack was successfully mitigated by our DDoS Mitigation Service, but became so powerful at a certain point that some of the Belnet network's uplinks became saturated.

The growing digitalisation in Belgium and the recent announcement by Microsoft seemed the perfect opportunity to reiterate our commitment to the transformation towards the Cloud. Indeed, thanks to GÉANT and the OCRE framework agreement, you enjoy numerous advantages.

Steve Colin (Coordinator of the eServices Unit of the Digital Campus of the Haute-Ecole Condorcet) recently produced a manual to help you implement Office 365 authentication by configuring Shibboleth IdP v4.x on Debian-Ubuntu Linux (with Apache2 + Jetty9). This specific configuration is available in a particularly detailed manual in our FAQ pages. 

Belnet has optimised the MFA service for the services using the Belnet Personal Login: the service is fully redundant and equipped with the necessary backup mechanisms.

The pan-European research network GÉANT is a fundamental part of Europe's e-Infrastructure, connecting nearly 40 national research and education networks (including Belnet). Launched in 2019, the GN4-3N project aims to support the rapidly growing needs of the European research and education community for the next 15 years.