Infrastructure and systems
Keeping you connected and agile while protecting your infrastructure and digital environment.
Finding the right solutions
Technology is developing faster than ever before, creating challenges and opportunities in equal measure. As a trusted partner to members in education and research, we work with you to find the right digital solutions for your institution, so you can keep your users safe and your digital infrastructure future-proof.
Connect with others
Our rapidly growing cyber security community helps Jisc members increase their security posture. Join our discussion group and share experiences about cyber security challenges and best practice.
Explore connectivity challenges with technical experts
Join our groups for IT and networking roles and come together to share experiences and learn from each other.
Training to hone your skills
From incidence response to implementing eduroam, we have courses covering cloud computing, connectivity and cyber.
Services to support your network
Connectivity to rely on
Eighteen million users rely on the Janet Network to stay connected.
Your Janet IP connection gives access to the world-class Janet Network and beyond, supporting access and roaming for all your users. You can extend your local area network (LAN) to additional sites within your IT estate, such as other campuses or facilities using Netpath or with an intersite connection.
Accelerate your digital transformation with Microsoft Teams telephony using session border controller or by extending your local area network (LAN) to additional sites within your IT estate with an intersite connection.
Cloud solutions
The UK’s trusted partner, reseller and technical experts on the use of cloud in education and research.
When you need access to cloud services, the OCRE 2024 cloud framework is a simple, compliant solution that gets you up and running quickly and cost-effectively.
Cyber security
Building solid security practice and culture together.
Cyber Essentials provides peace of mind that you’ve put essential security protections in place – and is critical for both reputation and compliance.
As members of Jisc, you benefit from the Janet Network CSIRT working to safeguard your security by monitoring and resolving security incidents that occur on the Janet Network. Critical services protection is also available to protect business-critical services from targeted DDoS attacks.
Trust and identity
Manage access efficiently and effectively or use domain registry to request ac.uk domains.
Robust access management is a must-have for all members. The certificate service lets you manage all your certificates in one place including SSL and email.
The UK Access Management Federation (UKAMF) is single solution giving your users access to online resources and services while OpenAthens make single sign-on simple for the library community.
Cyber impact report
Guidance and the latest case studies on the impact of cyber security incidents in the UK's further and higher education and research sectors.
Spotlight on members
Emerging stronger from cyber-attack
When Cardiff Metropolitan University realised their systems were under attack, it kickstarted a powerful working relationship with Jisc that transformed security.
Cloud thinking
The University of Sunderland has an ambition to become a truly digital first university, so they’re taking staff and students on a journey to develop their digital skills.
Delivering a digital education
A new Institutes of Technology project is using cloud solutions to keep learners collaborating, wherever they are.
Ciaran Magee, ICT manager at Armagh Observatory and Planetarium
“We’re currently moving four terabytes of data from Australia to Armagh. To be able to transfer the data across networks is infinitely better and the links are always improving. With the Janet Network we are on a one-gig network and from next year we’ll be upgrading that."
Find out how astronomers are transferring data around the globe.
