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GDPR: What's your justification?
[Updated Sep.18 to repair links broken by the demise of the Article 29 WP website][Updated...
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 (recording now available on YouTube) highlighted how attacks on the internet core no longer target a single service (naming, routing, signing) but ...
The Big Bad Smart Fridge
Leonie Tanczer's FIRST 2019 keynote (recording now available on YouTube) looked at more than a decade of European discussions of whether/how to regulate the Internet of Things (no, I didn't realise, either) and how we might do ...
Things that Go Bump in the Night
Apparently Miranda Mowbray had been wanting to do a talk on "Things that Go Bump in the Night" for some time, and it made an excellent closing keynote for the 2019 FIRST conference in Edinburgh (recording now available on You...
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 org...
Janet East Midlands Service Report April...
Janet East Midlands Service Report April 2019...
GDPR: Alumni processes
Most universities maintain databases of alumni, for purposes including keeping them informed about the organisation, offering services and seeking donations. These activities have a lot in common with other charities, so the Informatio...
RADIUS Server Choice Guide for eduroam
The RADIUS implementations most likely to be deployed or implemented at the present time a...
Janet Wales service report April 2019
Service report for organisations in Wales connected to the Janet network via the PSBA...
Travelling with encrypted devices
Most portable devices – laptops, smartphones and memory sticks – should be encrypted so that the information they contain is protected if the device is lost or stolen. Many countries (including the UK) give their immigration and other authorities legal powers to demand that you decrypt an encrypted device though given the number of laptops that cross borders every d...
Janet Yorkshire Humberside service repor...
Service report for organisations in Yorkshire Humberside connected to the Janet network...
GDPR: Attendance Monitoring
A question recently arose about monitoring students' attendance at lectures and tutorials, and how this fitted into data protection law. Since the main purpose of such monitoring seems to be to identify and assist students who don't attend, and whose presence is therefore not recorded or processed, there seem to be a number of both practical and legal issues to think ab...
GDPR: Recording Phone Calls
Most of us are familiar with the recorded messages at the start of phone calls that warn &...
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