Cybersecurity resource hub

The cybersecurity threat landscape is always evolving, and attacks are becoming more prevalent and sophisticated​.

Explore our collection of educational resources designed to empower you with the knowledge and tools to safeguard yourself and your organization from cyber-threats. Join us in building a safer, more secure digital future.

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How can we combat cyber attacks?

  1. Defend as one

    Work together as one community and help support each other against the threat of cybercrime​.

  2. Awareness and prevention are better than cure

    Participate in and support organization-wide training and skills that are critical to identifying and mitigating against cybersecurity threats​. Guidance from the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), Universities UK (UUK) and Jisc explains why prevention is better than cure.

  3. Security by design

    Apply security by design concepts in product development to help protect organizations and users. An example of security by design is the OpenAthens Federation where providers of content and services agree to pass verified and encrypted information to library organizations within the trust fabric of our federation.

Educational resources

How to protect your organization against cyber-attacks

What you can do to protect your organization against cyber-attacks? Find out in our blog.

Read our cyber-attack blog

How to start a conversation with your information security team

Sari Frances and Brian Kelly review the Scholarly Networks Security Initiative (SNSI) report that highlights cybersecurity risks to scholarly publishing and how to start a conversation with your information security team.

Watch the webinar

Cybersecurity in the pharmaceutical industry

Discover how organizations can protect not only themselves from cyber threats, but also the consequences to wider society.

Read our cybersecurity blog

Back to basics: Security and user privacy

Authentication, authorization, cookies, passwords, security, user privacy… Heard about all these terms but want a better understanding of what they are and how they impact you? Watch our easy-to-follow case study and learn all you need to know about security and user privacy.

Watch the securiy and user privacy webinar

Ensuring seamless remote access and data security

Discover how the University of Melbourne increased active users by nearly 50% during the pandemic, whilst maintaining data security. This case study webinar will also explore the challenges faced and discuss important lessons learned.

Watch the case study webinar

Security audit inspires Iowa State University Library to implement OpenAthens

When the IT team at Iowa State University Library learned that the library had experienced security issues that resulted in a temporary loss of guest users’ access to some publisher resources, both library and IT teams began looking for a more secure, single sign on authentication solution.

Read the Iowa state university case study

How OpenAthens helps keep your data safe

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Blog and webinar: How OpenAthens helps protect content from misuse

In our 2023 cybersecurity webinar, we outline how OpenAthens can help protect content from misuse in a more targeted way – thanks to the benefits of federated access.

Review our blog and webinar recording
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Blog: Three ways OpenAthens delivers effective security

Neil Scully, trust and identity CTO at Jisc discusses how we deliver effective security, while keeping things simple for learners and researchers. 

Read our blog on effective security
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Webinar: Keeping your user data secure

In this webinar, our platform engineer and security and compliance coordinator, Joe Bromley, explains how our product has security controls built into it by design. He will also discuss how we manage security within our team and how we comply with security standards and data protection laws. You’ll have the chance to ask us any questions during the webinar.

Watch our webinar on keeping your data safe

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