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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 ...
IP Addresses, Privacy and the GDPR
It's well-known that the General Data Protection Regulation says that IP addresses sho...
Penetration Testing - Legitimate Interes...
In developing our Data Protection Impact Assessment for the Janet Security Operations Centre we noted that our Penetration Testing service could involve high risks, but didn't really fit the DPIA framework. Penetration tests are much smaller scale than the SOC; they are commissioned by individual Jisc customers, usually on only parts of their operations; and it's the cu...
Janet Yorkshire Humberside service repor...
Service report for organisations in Yorkshire Humberside connected to the Janet network...
TLS 1.2 and updated RADIUS requirements
TL;DR - TLS 1.2 negotiation in forthcoming OS releases require sites running RADIATOR, Fre...
Learning from Incidents
It's only lunchtime on the first day of the FIRST Conference 2018, and already two talks have stressed the importance and value of reviewing incidents over both the short and long terms. In the very different contexts of an open sc...
Benefits of attending our training cours...
• Improve your skills, share good practice and learn from others• Tailored courses specifically designed for organisations connected to the Janet network• Meet colleagues working in similar environments at other organisations• Courses held all year round, at UK wide locations and online for maximum flexibility• 1 year online support following the c...
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 generally valid for other wireless systems as well. Of course, there are likely things we've got wrong or missed out, so feedback is welcome...
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 authentication packets which it should really be rejecting. This creates a problem because if the authentication request originated from outside of your ...
Janet Wales service report April 2018
Service report for organisations in Wales connected to the Janet network via PSBA...
GDPR: Recording Phone Calls
Most of us are familiar with the recorded messages at the start of phone calls that warn "this call may be recorded for compliance and training purposes". Some may recognise it as meeting the requirement to notify callers und...
NHS-HE Forum June 2018
Speakers:Heather Cook, Associate Director of IT at Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust and c...
Janet Wales service report June 2018
Service report for organisations in Wales connected to the Janet network via PSBA...
Janet Yorkshire Humberside service repor...
Service report for organisations in Yorkshire Humberside connected to the Janet network...
Janet Kent service report July 2018
Service report for organisations in Kent connected to the Janet network via KPSN...
Janet North West Regional Delivery Servi...
Please find attached the North West region service report for the month of July 2018....
Janet Wales service report July 2018
Service report for orgnisations in Wales connected to Janet via the PSBA...
Janet Yorkshire Humberside service repor...
Service report for organisations in Yorkshire Humberside connected to the Janet network...
GDPR: Twelve Steps, Sorted
Although the Information Commissioner's "Twelve Steps to Prepare" is an exce...
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eduroam has often been extended in to the NHS to support students on clinical placement and clinicians with joint NHS and University roles in clinical research and/or...
[Updated Sep.18 to repair links broken by the demise of the Article 29 WP website]
[Updated Oct.17 to include an example where multiple justifications are...
Janet Peering Policy
Janet operates an open peering policy subject to our standard peering agreement and all...
Janet Peering Policy
Janet operates an open peering policy subject to our standard peering agreement and all...
[Updated Sep.18 to repair links broken by the demise of the Article 29 WP website]
[Updated Oct.17 to include an example where multiple justifications are...
Please find attached the Cumbria area service report for the month of July 2018.
Please find attached the North West region service report for the month of July 2018.
Service report for organisations in Wales connected to the Janet network via PSBA
At the FIRST conference, Eireann Leverett and Marie Moe...