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New Data Retention Bill
[Corrected 28/11: "relevant internet data" is limited to that "generated or...
Incident Response and the Law
At the FIRST conference this week I've heard depressingly many incident responders saying "our lawyers won't let us...". Since incident response, done right, should actually support the law's objectives, it seems we need to be smarter, and maybe a bit more assertive, about explaining how incident response and law interact.The laws most relevant to incident...
From mobile device policy to BYOD
I’ve had a few discussions recently where people talked about the ‘new risk’ of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), but then mentioned risks – loss/theft of device, use in public place, etc. – that already exist...
Janet London Regional Delivery Service R...
Please find attached the London region service report for the month of January 2018....
Safe Harbor/Privacy Shield
The European Commission has now published draft texts that could be used to implement an EU/US Privacy Shield to replace the previous Safe Harbor agreement. It appears that the new scheme would only cover "commercial exchanges" of personal data between the EU and US so it is unlikely to be appropriate for export of personal data to US universities or non-profit organi...
Disentangling DRIP
Earlier this week Parliament passed the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act 2014 (...
Prevent: What's The Role of Technology?
Roughly what I said in my Digifest presentation yesterdaySince the Prevent duty, to help those at risk of radicalisation, was applied to universities and colleges there has been a lot of discussion of what role technology can play. The...
Prevent - updated HEFCE guidance
On the recent trial run of our new course on Filtering and Monitoring we invited students to discuss the Home Office requirement to "consider the use of filters as part of their overall strategy to prevent people being drawn into terrorism". HEFCE’s recent update of their monitoring framework for Higher Education providers in England asks them to provide "s...
Prevent Duty for FE/HE now in force
[Updated to include UCISA Model Regulations]After short debates in the Houses of Commons a...
GDPR: Twelve Steps, Sorted
Although the Information Commissioner's "Twelve Steps to Prepare" is an excellent guide to what organisations need to do in the eighteen months before the General Data Protection Regulation becomes UK law in May 2018, following them in order from 1 to 12 may not be the best approach. Some of the steps depend on the results of others, some are likely to take ...
Janet Cumbria Regional Delivery Service ...
Please find attached the Cumbria area service report for the month of January 2019...
GDPR: moving to Information Lifecycle Re...
[UPDATE: the Irish GDPR coalition have a nice infographic on information lifecycles under the GDPR]Anyone who has looked at an information security standard is likely to be familiar with the idea of an Information Asset Register. These...
Regulatory Developments
One of Jisc’s activities is to monitor and, where possible, influence regulatory developments that affect us and our customer universities, colleges and schools as operators of large computer networks. Since Janet and its custome...
Janet East of England
The East of England geographic region covers Essex, Norfolk, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Milton Keynes, The regional infrastructure is provided and managed by janet and was the result of a joint procurement by janet a...
Janet South East
Welcome to the Janet group for customers in the Southeast, including Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey, Sussex and Kent. It is intended to provide region specific information to Janet customers, including localised news and events....
Janet ESISS (Education Shared Informatio...
We are delighted to announce that the Education Shared Information Security Service (ESISS...
Janet South West
Welcome to the Janet South West Group This is the regional group for Janet customers ...
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I am now blogging on the Cyber Security blog on Jisc Involve.
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The Community group for the Jisc Assent Service launched on 25 March 2015
Jisc, as the service operator, will post things on here relevant to the service but...
These statistics only relate to information collated by Janet CSIRT and do not provide an accurate sample of security activity across the research and education...
These statistics only relate to information collated by Janet CSIRT and do not provide an accurate sample of security activity across the research and education...
** Please be advised that the Jisc Community site is due to be decommissioned shortly.
This will mean that this group will no longer...
You may be aware of the launch by the government of CISP - the Cyber Security Information Sharing Partnership.
It's a web based environment in which various...
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This will mean that this group will no longer...
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...
