This post is the sixth in a series of ten posts that have been created to identify the best practice found in FE colleges by the Jisc infrastructure review service. An introduction to the infrastructure review synthesis project is provided in the first post in the series. Core enterprise services Almost all colleges use Microsoft […]
This post is the fifth in a series of ten posts that have been created to identify the best practice found in FE colleges by the Jisc infrastructure review service. An introduction to the infrastructure review synthesis project is provided in the first post in the series. Servers and storage The vast majority of colleges […]
This post is the fourth in a series of ten posts that have been created to identify the best practice found in FE colleges by the Jisc infrastructure review service. An introduction to the infrastructure review synthesis project is provided in the first post in the series. Networks Having robust connectivity in place is now […]
This post is the third in a series of ten posts that have been created to identify the best practice found in FE colleges by the Jisc infrastructure review service. An introduction to the infrastructure review synthesis project is provided in the first post in the series. IT support In the colleges that benefit from […]
This post is the second in a series of ten posts that have been created to identify the best practice found in FE colleges by the Jisc infrastructure review service. An introduction to the infrastructure review synthesis project is provided in the first post in the series. Strategic considerations The most technologically mature colleges have […]
This blog is the first in a series of ten posts that has been prepared by the Jisc enterprise infrastructure team of subject specialists. This blog series details the key findings from the infrastructure reviews undertaken by the team between late 2016 and early 2020. The team was able to spend time undertaking a synthesis […]
Defining the scope of your Cyber Essentials assessment will be difficult. Ideally it should to be done right at the beginning of the process and should apply to the whole organisation. Most likely though, it will develop as the answers to the section questions are collected and developed, and determining if mitigation is required […]
Cyber Essentials (CE) is a base level security accreditation that demonstrates a security posture that is compliant the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) recommended guidelines for small to medium enterprises (SME). It allows funders, customers and staff to have confidence that organisational policy, processes, user practices and IT infrastructure provide a risk assessed and […]
The Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) had initially amended the contract for those who receive that funding to attain the ISO27001 Information Security Management certification. Jisc and the AoC made representations citing that the scale of work, redirection of resource and the very short time frame was an unrealistic expectation for the sector. […]
Update (17/04/2018) We have now published an updated v0.5 of the eduroam (UK) Microsoft NPS Configuration Guide on the Jisc community site. Update (12/03/2018) An updated draft v0.3 of the eduroam(UK) Microsoft Network Policy Server guide is now available. This covers configuring your own Standalone Certificate Authority, which is the preferred approach. We will be moving to a final […]