Cloud computing

The European Council of Ministers have now published a proposed text for the General Data Protection Regulation. This still needs to be edited by the Commission's "lawyer-linguists" to check for inconsistencies, sort out the numbering of recitals and articles etc. But the working parties of both the Parliament and the Council have recommended that the resulting text should be adopted by the respective full bodies at meetings in the next couple of months.

22 July 2016 at 8:56am

Network and Information Security Directive - nearly done

Cybersecurity Directive

[UPDATE: the Directive has now been published, with Member States required to transpose it into their national laws by 9 May 2018]

Future of Cloud Computing

Phyllis Callinan

22 October 2015 at 8:44am

Martin Hamilton and Dan Perry at Jisc have written a report on the future of cloud computing. Click here to find out more about the origins of cloud services, their implications for institutions, what Jisc has done to help institutions adopt cloud services and some ideas on what Jisc can do in the future. Included in that report are success stories from the organisations that use cloud services - read about the collaboration, research and cost savings that have been realised.

25 June 2015 at 5:31pm

Data Protection Regulation - now there are three

incident response

Access Management

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.

22 April 2015 at 12:23pm

ENISA - working out cloud security requirements

Cloud security

ENISA’s new report proposing a "Security Framework for Governmental Clouds" may be more widely useful than its title and explicit scope suggest.

Virtualisation Implementation & Cloud Computing

Sammy Ashby

24 February 2014 at 10:58am

This course provides an introduction to the technology and the different methods of virtualisation available. Networking and Security concerns are explored in further detail, as critical elements to deployment. The second part of the course covers the application of Cloud Computing in more detail.

25 November 2013 at 9:11am

Clouds and the draft Data Protection Regulation

At the moment both cloud computing providers and their business customers in Europe have to deal with at least twenty-eight different interpretations of Data Protection law. And there are nearly as many different national rules and formalities when using non-European cloud providers (the UK approach is described in the Information Commissioner’s Guide to Cloud Computing).

1 May 2013 at 10:08am

International transfers within cloud providers