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ECJ rules in favour of security and inci...
The recent European Court case of Breyer v Germany provides welcome support for those who ...
Networking for Non-Networkers
Here is an archive of an historic working group organised by Mark Leese at the Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils (CCLRC), now known as STFC.*The following text is taken from the web archive of the group*Networks for Non-Networkers 2 (NFNN2) was a one and a half day workshop for people working at the technical level in high-bandwidth dependent...
Janet London Procurement - Delivery Upda...
Please find attached a report that outlines the delivery and migration progress for the Lo...
Sensitive/Special Category Data and Lear...
In thinking about the legal arrangements for Jisc's learning analytics services we consciously postponed incorporating medical and other information that Article 9(1) of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) classifies as Special Category Data (SCD): "personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or tra...
Extremism Guidance for Universities and ...
The Government has published its proposed guidance to universities, colleges and other specified authorities on what they will be expected to do to satisfy their duty under the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015 to "to have due regard to the need to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism". This guidance may not become law until after the General Election,...
Sharing Information to Protect Privacy
I was invited to give a presentation on legal and ethical issues around information sharing at TERENA’s recent security services workshop. The talk highlighted the paradox that sharing information is essential to protect the privacy of our users when their accounts or computers have been compromised, but that sharing can also harm privacy if it’s not done correctly....
East of England Service Report - May 201...
East of England Service Report - May 2018...
An anthropologist learns about incident ...
If you've been watching movies and TV series, it may come as a surprise that most comp...
Data Breaches: Be Prepared
The Article 29 Working Party's guidance on Breach Notification suggests some things we should do before a security breach occurs. The GDPR expects data controllers, within 72 hours of becoming aware of any security breach, to deter...
Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015
The Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015, which received Royal Assent last week, has some network-related provisions among its various powers relating to terrorism. Section 21 adds further "relevant internet data" to the l...
Data Protection Regulation - now there a...
After more than three years of discussion, all three components of the European law making process have now produced their proposed texts for a General Data Protection Regulation should look like. The Council of Ministers’ versio...
London Region Delivery Report
This report shows the performance of the regional network in London to March 2013. The fil...
BYOD: Doing Security Together
Presenting at the Jisc’s Safer Internet Day event got me thinking a bit more about the shared interests between owners and organisations in a BYOD scheme, and the opportunity that might present. For many years I’ve liked the idea of helping users be safe in their personal Internet lives (where motivation should be a matter of self-interest, rather than "having ...
Are networks data processors?
As the GDPR approaches, several customer organisations have asked us if the Janet network ...
Draft e-Infrastructure Landscape Mapping
To better understand the access and identity management and security technical landscape, ...
Reducing your vulnerability to insider t...
Monica Whitty's keynote at the FIRST Conference (recording available on YouTube) used ...
Public traffic backhaul
It has long been a source of frustration that if a Janet connected site wanted to provide ...
Passive DNS: improving security and priv...
[Updated with further information and suggestions provided by CSIRTs: thanks!]One incident...
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JiscCommunity has been this blog's home for eight years, but I'm now moving over to JiscInform. That has many nice features, notably that it works really well on...
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Jisc has been providing expert, trusted advice on digital...
[with thanks to a former university Head of Examinations for input and discussion]
Recent years, and weeks, have seen a move away from the traditional...
I've been reading a fascinating paper by Julia Slupska – "War, Health and...
[Notes:
- This isn't legal advice, but I hope it will reassure anyone considering supporting the...
[Notes:
- This isn't legal advice, but I hope it will reassure anyone considering supporting the...
The EU High-Level Expert Group's (HLEG) draft Ethics Guidelines for...
Service report for organisations in Yorkshire Humberside connected to the Janet network
