Stay resilient during clearing: new guide on securing business critical systems
With clearing and enrolment on the horizon, we’ve published a new quick guide with practical steps to strengthen your cyber resilience, ensuring your systems stay online when you need them most.
Our new guide, Ensuring cyber resilience for clearing, enrolment and beyond, explores which of your systems are business critical during clearing and enrolment and what you can do to ensure your organisation stays resilient.
Why it matters
“A DDoS attack during clearing targeting websites and telephony can cause significant disruptions leading to potential students applying for courses elsewhere. However, there is so much you can do now to ensure the availability and security of these critical systems.
Taking time to ensure the basics are covered and adopting a layered approach to defence with additional protection, can help mitigate these risks, whilst safeguarding your reputation and ensuring a seamless clearing experience for your students.”
—Clare Stonebridge, lead service manager DDoS protection
What you can do
The guide outlines what you can do now to reduce that risk. It covers how to secure your systems with patching, multi-factor authentication (MFA) and monitoring, how to optimise your cloud and web application firewall (WAF) protections ahead of high traffic periods, and how to prepare your teams through cyber exercises and incident response planning.
You also have access to core cyber security services through your Jisc membership and Janet Network connection, as well as optional services such as foundation plus DDoS mitigation, critical services protection and web application firewall (WAF).
Take action
Now is the time to check your systems and processes to ensure a smooth and secure clearing period.
For more information contact your relationship manager.