SNE is the University of Amsterdam master education in System and Network Engineering.
The "Master SNE page" has more info about our educational program.

We focus on Open Standards, Open Software and Open Security, hence the name OS3.

On Friday, November 26, 2010 the SNE education presents itself during the

UvA Master Week

If you want to make a personal appointment to visit our education or to attend a lecture, please contact us via info at os3 dot nl.

General information and testimonials are available at the

Introductory page

More in depth facts can be found on our

Master SNE page

The traditional SNEtrip 2010 has been to the UK. After trips to CERN by plane and Munich by train we now have been traveling by boat to the UK. We have visited the new National Museum of Computing and Bletchley Park on the 28th, and the city of London with its museums on the 29th.

After 4 years of very intensive usage the student servers had to be replaced. The new students will have a Dell R210 with individual remote KVM over IP.

In the DFRWS2010 Forensic Challenge SNE students achieved second place. The jury wrote: Joeri Blokhuis and Axel Puppe: Made a valiant effort to reconstruct the logical arrangement of data, and developed custom programs for this purpose. Ultimately used file carving and text extraction. This submission has strong tool coverage and analysis, looked for a wide variety of data formats, and addressed challenge questions. The visual depiction of timeline analysis is a highlight of this submission. More information on the DFRWS website .

The Joop Bautz Information Security Award 2009 was won by two of our students, Thijs Kinkhorst en Michael van Kleij. Their master thesis describing a framework for analyzing drive-by infections in typical network traffic was awarded by the jury with “excellent in every category and to be very relevant to society”. In 2007 the Joop Bautz award was also won by SNE students Pieter Siekerman and Maurits van der Schee. More information on the JBISA website

The prestigious international DFRWS2009 Forensic Challenge was won by the SNE students Wouter van Dongen and Alain van Hoof. The jury wrote “We were very impressed by the thoroughness of the analysis and the clarity of presentation.”

More information on the DFRWS website.

You can find their report and presentation on the OS3 Masters Theses archive.

After 6 years the SNE Master moved to the new Science Park building. Our new lab is now ready for the new students. We hope to make this a great year!

OS3 stands for Open Standards, Open Software (which extends Open Source) and Open Security. Together these three components define Open Technology. Our education is based on Open Technology, because this is the only way for students to get real insight into our field of study and to obtain an academic view on relevant matters. This in contrast to educations where programs are based on volatile, product specific tracks, which at best give operational knowledge with a short lifetime.

To get in touch you can mail us at:

You can also visit our facilities at the Science Faculty of the University of Amsterdam located at the Science Park Amsterdam.

• E-passport security (English)
• Beveiliging elektronisch paspoort (Dutch)
• OS3 Students win Joop Bautz Award
• Free travel possible in the Dutch public transportation system