02 December 2010
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...
08 October 2010 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...
17 September 2010
The Technical Service Review is a combination of a remote diagnostic network assessment, the completion of a five minute...
07 July 2010
04 January 2010 BBC Newsbeat website discussing the use of proxies by...
01 September 2009 An interactive animation detailing exactly how the Northern Grid Wide Area Network is set up
12 January 2009 How to conserve network bandwidth and improving browsing response times
Busy networks create congestion, this congestion results in poor response times when browsing the Internet. Reducing congestion is easy, simply request websites that will be accessed in the next few days or weeks to be downloaded to your Cachepilot...
30 June 2008 Document containing guidance for securing 3G / Northern Grid endpoint devices for Computers for Pupils.
25 September 2007 Presentation given by Mark Vinnicombe, Northern Grid, at the Northern Grid technical meeting held at Hall Garth Golf & Country Club, Darlington on September 25th 2007.
06 February 2007 To improve the resilience of the network and increase the available bandwidth of the Internet connection, Northern Grid have commissioned the installation of multiple backup links at core level creating a resilient ring for all LA?s. An additional POP has been created at Newcastle with symmetrical firewall clustering to the Middlesborough POP. The...
31 January 2007 To improve the resilience of the network and increase the available bandwidth of the Internet connection, Northern Grid have commissioned the installation of multiple backup links at core level creating a resilient ring for all LAs.
05 January 2007 Northern Grid hosted one of its regular technical seminars on January 25th 2007. This pdf contains the presentation given by Dave Cole of Easynet who talked about monitoring the network.
05 January 2007 Northern Grid's Broadband Technical Officer, Mark Vinnicombe, highlights some of the performance and security problems within a school network and offers advice.
11 October 2006 Improvements to E-Safety for Regional Schools
As part of its ongoing developments and improvements in providing safe online environments for teachers, pupils and other users, Northern Grid is proposing to establish a new automatic monitoring system for web and internet use.
30 August 2006 Download this
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1.1 SUMMARY The ICT suites are well resourced and managed. Modern well-equipped...
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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.
