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You might be interested to know that JANET Training are running the following one-day courses during August:

Computers, Privacy and the Law
5th August 2009
Peter House, Manchester
The main aim of the course is to enabling organisations and staff to work lawfully, protect user privacy and run a professional system/network/service. This course provides an introduction to the privacy and legal issues most likely to arise where staff in educational organisations have elevated access permissions for shared networks, computers and applications, and the need for organisations to have, and staff to follow, policies and processes that take account of these.

The full course outline is available at http://www.ja.net/services/training/courses/computersprivacyandthelaw.html

Information Security Policies
6th August 2009
Peter House, Manchester
Information is critical to most of the functions of an education organisation, whether for teaching, research, administration, employment or funding. The effective operation of all those functions depends on reliably accurate information being available when it is needed by those who are authorised to see it, and is not disclosed to those who are not authorised to see it. These factors – accuracy, availability and confidentiality – are all components of information security.

This course therefore takes a broad view of what is needed to achieve the necessary level of information security, concentrating almost entirely on people, processes and policies, not on computers or networks.

The full course outline is available at http://www.ja.net/services/training/courses/infosecpolicies.html

To book a place: http://www.ja.net/services/training/schedule/by-date.html.

Further information on all courses and venues is available at www.ja.net/training