I’ve had several conversations this week that related to what’s commonly referred to as “level of assurance”: how confident we can be that an account or other information about an on-line user actually relates to the person currently sitting at the keyboard. Governments may be concerned with multiple forms of documentary proof but I suspect […]
Month: March 2014
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BYOD: Doing it Better
I reckon the education sector accepted user-owned devices (now known as Bring Your Own Device) at least fifteen years ago, the moment we provided remote access and encouraged staff and students to work outside the office. My talk at the Janet/Jisc services day in London therefore looked at how we can do it better, suggesting […]
The various committees of the European Parliament have now published their response to the Commission’s draft Network and Information Security Directive. Their proposal is much more narrowly focussed than the Commission’s: public administrations are excluded (though individual Member States are allowed to opt theirs in), as they already “have to exert due diligence in the […]