Monthly Archives: January 2014

Scanning for vulnerable systems

This article describes a couple of security enhancements which the Computing Team will be developing over the next few months. As I mentioned  last time, we have recently started scanning all our externally-visible machines for security vulnerabilities using the JANET … Continue reading

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Self-managed machines, particularly with firewall holes

Users of self-managed machines are reminded that School policy requires that they should make all reasonable efforts to secure those machines.  This applies particularly to those which have firewall holes. Machines must be running a current OS version, and patching … Continue reading

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