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List of UK hospitals providing free pati...
Hospitals that have free patient & visitor WiFi include those below, not necessarily the same as those providing eduroam. Not quite as convenient and managed as eduroam but nevertheless a valuable facility for visiting students or ...
Janet East Midlands Service Report May 2...
Janet East Midlands Service Report May 2019...
Rebuilding trust in the Internet's build...
Merike Kaeo's keynote "Waking Up the Guards" at the FIRST 2019 conference (r...
Things that Go Bump in the Night
Apparently Miranda Mowbray had been wanting to do a talk on "Things that Go Bump in t...
Reducing your vulnerability to insider t...
Monica Whitty's keynote at the FIRST Conference (recording available on YouTube) used interviews at organisations that had been victims of insider attacks to try to understand these attackers – and possible defences – from a psychological perspective.It turns out that thinking about stereotypical "insider threats" probably doesn't help. Notably, di...
Incident Response for Connected Hardware
An interesting talk from Rockwell at this year's FIRST conference looked at how to organise incident response in environments containing network-connected hardware devices. Though Rockwell's focus is on industrial machinery, the same ideas should apply to smart buildings and other places where a security incident can cause physical, not just digital, harm. This is not t...
IP Addresses, Privacy and the GDPR
It's well-known that the General Data Protection Regulation says that IP addresses should be treated as personal data because they can be used to single out individuals for different treatment, even if not to actually identify them...
Improving reliability of Microsoft NPS a...
I've spent a fair bit of time over the past month trying to improve the reliability of our RADIUS service for eduroam. Previously it was entirely based on Microsoft NPS which has the tendency to silently discard authenticatio...
NHS and eduroam/shared use of wireless/g...
eduroam has been widely extended in to the NHS and is a successful and popular support for students on clinical placement in the NHS and the academic staff supporting them, plus clinical researchers working with the NHS.See here for a ...
Janet East Midlands Service Report April...
Janet East Midlands Service Report April 2019...
June 19: Dispatches from the digital hea...
Jon Hoeksma, Chief Executive of Digital Health, gives an overview of the UK digital health journey, where we've come from, where now and what is about to come, from the perspective of someone who has reported on this over many year...
List of UK hospitals providing eduroam
eduroam has often been extended in to the NHS to support students on clinical placement an...
Wireless options on Cisco WLCs
SummaryA few years experience has led to certain wireless options being set on our Cisco Wireless Controllers due to different reasons. Here is a summary of what we have set at the University of Leicester, and why we set them. They are...
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Monica Whitty's keynote at the FIRST Conference (recording available on YouTube) used...
Merike Kaeo's keynote "Waking Up the Guards" at the FIRST 2019 conference...
Apparently Miranda Mowbray had been wanting to do a talk on "Things that Go Bump in the Night...
Monica Whitty's keynote at the FIRST Conference (recording available on YouTube) used...
Merike Kaeo's keynote "Waking Up the Guards" at the FIRST 2019 conference...
Apparently Miranda Mowbray had been wanting to do a talk on "Things that Go Bump in the Night...
