Why use the E-Security practitioner’s toolkit?

The security toolkit provides clear and relevant practical advice to schools to ensure the safety of network users and protection for the network itself.  The toolkit addresses those topics that are key to any sound security and risk management strategy. The...

Northern Grid's accreditation from Becta has been renewed.

The Becta Accreditation of Internet Services enables schools and other establishments to make an informed choice of a managed internet service provider or web content filtering solution....

As part of Northern Grid’s fully, accredited manage service, the Email provision delivered to users should provide the following as a minimum set of requirements to meet Accreditation standards.

• At least one mailbox per person within the end user organisation
• Mailbox size has to be a minimum of 20 MB
• Attachment size has to be a minimum of 5...

Northern Grid can offer a range of e safety services to its partner and non-partner schools as well as the independent sector.

Northern Grid for Learning has a national reputation for its range of support and materials. Resources are available for organisations with...

Northern Grid has produced this document to assist you in checking that your CachePilot is configured correctly. It contains a list of sites with instructions on how to test your configuration settings correctly and any actions that should be taken from performing these tests; in addition to these test instructions it also contains a list of

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What features do schools require of a broadband supplier?

A local or regional authority may be considering a public service network serving schools as well as other partners. A school may ask if a commercial provider could provide appropriate educational broadband services. This paper provides an overview of areas that need to be considered when designing broadband ...

The Technical Service Review is a combination of a remote diagnostic network assessment, the completion of a five minute electronic questionnaire followed by an onsite...

Northern Grid wishes to engage consultants to support the next procurement of their regional broadband network.

Documents below detail the consultancies for the required technical and legal...

For those that weren't at the Easynet, Northern Grid Technical Seminar on the 6th of July 2010, here are the presentations and documents from the event.

Northern Grid, Easynet and Equiinet have been working with partner Local Authoritiess to enable all CachePilots to be upgraded to 5.2.5 software code. Amongst other enhancements this code version enables easier integration with Active Directory and...