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 […]
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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 […]
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OCRE’s experience through researchers’ eyes
The OCRE Cloud Framework was created by the Open Clouds for Research Environments (OCRE) project consortium, which is led by GÉANT and forms part of the wider OCRE project. It is an OJEU-compliant procurement framework, enabling our members and customers to buy public cloud more easily and cost-effectively. Available under the framework are a wide […]
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 […]
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Jisc Public Cloud Survey
Fifteen months since the launch of the OCRE Cloud Framework, we’ve passed the one hundered call-off contracts milestone, signed with the suppliers on the framework. The projected saving to the sector so far is more than £8M over the term of the framework. In order for us to understand our members requirements to better support […]
The OCRE Cloud Framework was launched at the beginning of 2021. It is an OJEU-compliant procurement framework, created by GÉANT and forms part of the wider Open Clouds for Research Environments (OCRE) project. It provides a more efficient way to buy public cloud services for education and research. To encourage the adoption of the OCRE […]
I am hearing increasing reports of UK academic institutions suffering from ramsomware attacks. These are now happening much more frequently than in the past and the consequences, in some cases at least, can be devastating. It is no longer a question of if you will be attacked but when you will be attacked and how […]