Awareness articles
Copying and Pasting in myDRE: Easy or Safe?
Introduction In myDRE, you can't copy and paste information between your computer and a Virtual Machine (VM). This for example means that you can't copy and paste your code from your local desktop to your VM and vice versa. It might seem like a big ...
Zero Trust
On December 6th, we visited Cloud Expo 2023 in Houten EXPO. As usual, we are happy to share the lessons learned. The overarching theme was undeniably Zero Trust. But what is Zero Trust and what role does it play in today’s cyber-security landscape? ...
NIS2 Update: Mapping NIS2 to ISO27001
First version: 2023-11-03 Last update: - Last change(s): - NIS2 Update The NIS2 directive is upcoming and as you have come to know, anDREa B.V. is keeping a close eye on what this means and how organizations can prepare for this. Recently, we wrote ...
Is NIS2 on the radar of your organisation?
Is NIS2 on the radar of your organisation? At anDREa, we are heavily invested in the security of our platform and your data in the interest of all stakeholders. Since September 2022, we are ISO27001 certified and have passed the first control audit ...
Awareness - MFA: number matching, location and additional context
TL;DR: The Microsoft Authenticator app will enforce number matching starting February 27th 2023 in response to MFA fatigue attacks. anDREa has already enabled location and additional context, number matching will follow soon. Activation date to be ...
Awareness - Passwords, Spell Checkers, and MFA
Introduction We like to make you aware of some of the current security vulnerabilities, what you can do and what anDREa is doing to mitigate the risks. Passwords & Spell Checkers Spell checkers offered by browsers, but also apps like Grammarly, pose ...
Awareness - Malicious code packages in repositories
Version: 2022-08-16 Introduction anDREa B.V. takes information security very seriously. We recently engaged in the ISO 27001 certification process. Moreover, we are subscribed to several security news feeds. As a result, we will post awareness ...
Awareness - MFA protects but make sure the site is okay
version: 2022-04-14 Introduction MFA is a good way to protect against hackers, but on Tuesday, Microsoft detailed an ongoing large-scale phishing campaign that can hijack user accounts when they're protected with MFA designed to prevent such ...
Awareness - Convenience & Security
Introduction - the case of copy-paste: local <-> VM On myDRE you cannot copy-paste text from or into a VM. As a Jupyter Lab user myself (Python) that heavily makes use on Google to find solutions, I do miss this copy-paste option. It would be so much ...
Popular Articles
Activating your new @mydre.org account
Before you can access your DRE workspace(s) at mydre.org, you need to activate your @mydre.org account. Below, we explain the steps in this activation process, along with screenshots for illustration. Prerequisite: your new @mydre.org username, which ...
R and RStudio using External Access rules
This method of downloading R packages is outdated! This article will not be updated any longer. IP addresses are often subject to change. Therefore, the domain allowlisting feature has been introduced and it is self-service for Accountable and ...
Atlas.ti
Older versions of Atlas.ti will show the option to validate your license offline. Unfortunately, this procedure no longer works. You can still use Atlas.ti by allowlisting the domain atlasti.com, as explained under Step 2 in Validating your Atlas.ti ...
Python, Anaconda and JupyterLab
With domain allowlisting now being a self-service feature, this is the preferred option. For proxy settings in Anaconda in combination with domain allowlisting, please follow this article: ...
Proxy configurations Anaconda
First version: 2022-10-31 Latest version: 2023-11-16 Last change(s): Clarification in the introduction; clarifying instructions; added screenshots. This is a community effort. The article was created by the anDREa Support Team in their spare time. If ...