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Cyber Essentials: why keeping your Shibboleth IdP up to date is crucial

A core aspect of Cyber Essentials is keeping your systems up to date. This is true both for operating systems and any installed apps or software, and these must always be kept updated.   Applying these updates is one of the most important things you can do to improve security. It ensures that devices and software are not vulnerable to known […]

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I’m not a number, I’m a pseudonymous identifier…

“Are THEY listening to us?” “Who’s they?” “You know, the phones, the laptops?” And so goes the conversation that I sometimes have with my wife. Perhaps after we’ve had a chat about hiking poles, when every ad on our social media feed then shows hiking poles, despite neither of us having directly Googled them. (Although […]

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Trust no one; the bad guys are coming down the pipes!

This year’s KuppingerCole European Identity and Cloud conference saw several talks about Zero Trust Models and Passwordless Authentication. No longer in cyber security is it enough to lock your front door and all of your windows, now the bad guys are ‘coming down the pipes’! To use X-Files parlance ‘Trust no one’ — not even […]

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Manage domains for your organisation? Here’s what you need to know about the upcoming changes to key Jisc Services

Welcome to this joint broadcast from Jisc‘s Trust and Identity and Security Services teams! What’s the score? In the new year, we will be changing the way you access the following services, making it easier for you to manage your existing subscriptions: Domain registry service (DRS) Primary nameserver service (PNS) We’re adding these services to the new […]