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This is a place to discuss Jisc Cloud Services and related topics, including cloud storage and research data management, amongst other things. Jisc's cloud blog post is available at: https://cloud.jiscinvolve.org/wp/ There you can read about whether cloud benefits outweigh the challenges and what it costs to migrate apps to the cloud. CESG has some useful documents on Cloud security guidance and best practice - just follow the link https://www.cesg.gov.uk/cloud-security-collection

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

6 July 2017 at 2:03pm

Universities and colleges need to have various processes and practises in place prior to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) becoming UK law in May 2018. Andrew Cormack provides useful advice at these links:

GDPR Twelve Steps, Sorted

A year to get your act together

You may be interested to know that Jisc's training team have organised some discounted Foundation and Practitioner courses on GDPR for the community. Click here for more details on the foundation course and here for the practitioner course.

There's also a free GDPR online briefing on 1 August.