This is the third in the Road to CE series, we’ll be talking about the written policies need to support Cyber Essentials, most of these will just be updates to existing policies. TLDR: Review and update your policies to enshrine the technical controls and accommodate for technical control feature lackings. If you don’t have an […]
Author: Nick Brown
Senior cloud solution architect for M365
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Road to Cyber Essentials: The Pilot
This is the second in the Road to CE series of blog posts following Jisc’s full Cyber Essentials journey. In this part of our journey, we had a meeting with senior stakeholders as well as our IT Security teams, explored the requirements for Cyber Essentials and how best to achieve those for Jisc and scoping […]
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Road to Cyber Essentials: The Start
Jisc are Cyber Essentials compliant, this will be a series of blog posts on how we achieved this. To start off you need to evaluate your digital estate, start small and expand from there. Your IdP will be your biggest asset in assisting with CE, make sure your systems use your IdP for login, try […]
Microsoft365DSC is an Open-Source initiative lead by Microsoft engineers and maintained by the community. It allows tenant admins to write a definition for how your Microsoft 365 tenant should be configured, automate the deployment of that configuration and ensures the monitoring of the defined configuration, notifying and acting on detected configuration drifts. It also allows […]
With Jisc’s Session Border Controller service now being in full production lets talk about how using Jisc’s SBC and Teams Phone System can provide cost savings and increased productivity. As the usage of Microsoft Teams increases in educational establishments we here at Jisc Cloud are seeing more and more demand for moving telephone systems into […]
Automate automate automate, that should be part of my job title. In this post I’m going to talk about a lesser known feature of Azure AD, which is now available to anyone with A3/E3 or above, group based licensing. With Microsoft’s retirement of the AzureAD and MSOL modules (replaced with MSGraph) you will need to […]