Morning all

 

Following on from our Eastern Region Technical Managers meeting on Friday 19^th November, please find below some notes:

 

Apologies for the delay in sending this over.

 

Many thanks Michele

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Notes

Cloud

• 365 security reviews
• Teams for Telephony
• Maximising 365; OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams etc.
• Partnership with AWS and Microsoft
• Free Solution Assessment to give idea of costs
• Events
• VM Ware Cloud on AWS webinar on 2nd November – recording available here https://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/introducing-vmware-cloud-on-aws-via-the-ocre-cloud-framework-02-nov-2021

 

Session Border Controller with Colm Blake

• Competitive pricing for the sector
• Available early 2022 (tbc/subject to change)

https://www.jisc.ac.uk/rd/projects/session-border-controller-as-a-service

 

Additional DDoS services

Foundation Plus https://www.jisc.ac.uk/ddos-mitigation

What is Foundation Plus:

• Optional enhancement to the Foundation services
• Designed to enhance and automate the protection of your Janet network connection
• Available on an opt-in basis

Member Benefit: 

• Automated protection 24/7/365
• Gives peace of mind that you are further protected
• Provides automated protection after hours
• Supporting and Alerting
• CSIRT support is accessible

Critical Services Protection https://www.jisc.ac.uk/critical-services-protection

What is CSP

• An optional enhancement to protect business critical services
• A choice of fast or instant
• CSP protections are specifically scoped and tailored to your requirements
• Available in an opt-in basis via a 4-month or annually recurring contract

Member Benefits

• Automated service protecting key services

 

Cyber update with Guy Sudron

• Changes in Cyber Essentials around BYOD
• IASME now require you to have staff BYOD in scope (where they connect to organizational data)
• Watch out for upcoming guidance coming from Jisc
• Speak to your Account Manager if you have questions or need support
• Join our drop-in clinics

 

DNS/JNRS

• 12 points of DNS basics (attached)
• What are Jisc missing in terms of JNRS in FE? Are members using a different service? Are you experiencing any problems in onboarding the service? Contact [log in to unmask]

 

Business Continuity with Raza Tahir, Hills Road Sixth Form College

NetLok from Raza Tahir – please see attached for more information

• Although there are ways to secure the IT infrastructure it can be difficult to secure some devices such as WAP’s, IP phones and printers from being accidentally or intentionally unplugged
• An NHS Trust in Yorkshire had exactly this issue and so they secured all their AP’s and IP phones with NetLoc as did a Police service in the South.
• JISC themselves have also started to use NetLoc in public facing areas to secure data points along with many schools and colleges around the UK
• Please feel free to pass on the brochure to your colleagues and if you would like a sample then please let me have your details and I shall get one sent out to you.  If you do wish to purchase any NetLoc then please get in touch as I will of course provide special pricing for members.

 

Round Robin discussion points:

• Staffing, including:
• Shortage of IT Staff
• Difficulty with recruitment and salary bands
• Staff ration to Student numbers
• Staff skills (lack)
• MFA
• Eduroam
• Cyber insurance
• e-Sports

 

Many thanks Michele