Category: Security

Many of us will shop online in search of great deals for Christmas. Unfortunately, cyber criminals will be active as well, creating fake shopping websites … Read more

Regardless of the technology you use, there are four simple steps that you can take to help you stay secure online. Step 1: You! Remember … Read more

What is it? This policy sets out Kent’s position on Information Security. It is approved by the Council and applies to everyone at the University … Read more

Cyber Essentials (CE) is a government defined standard for cyber security, measured against a set of baseline controls. Certification demonstrates that the University meets (and … Read more

Currently, there are various flavours of SSL/TLS in use across Kent, with differing cipher strengths. At the moment, we have some systems on TLSv1.2 only, … Read more

“Connecting things isn’t so different to connecting people …” In a conversation I had recently, the privacy issue of ‘Alexa’ came up (other models available … Read more

We all rely heavily on some unseen infrastructure to make our pretty green padlocks work so we can trust that we’re really talking to our … Read more

Microsoft require(d?) that the certificate protecting the ECP endpoint for a SAML2/Shibboleth federated domain from Office365 was a “trusted” certificate (one issued by what Microsoft consider … Read more

We have recently seen an large increase in the number of phishing emails directed at University accounts. These contain a downloading tool which downloads malware … Read more

Response Policy Zones (RPZ) can be used not only to protect the University community from botnet command and control traffic, but also connections to malware … Read more