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Introduction

If working at home using your own IT equipment, Please view the advice and guidance below for doing so in a secure manner. Whilst lots of the advice if specifically, for your own device, remember a lot of the information around emails and passwords should be followed too even when using College owned devices.

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Remember if you need access to Microsoft Office or Adobe CC, you can download to your own device free of charge through your College account:

MS Office

Adobe

Device Protection

All personal devices should be secured with Anti-Virus software to protect against viruses, malware, ransomware, etc. We

The College provides free access to Sophos Anti-Virus for all staff:

Install Sophos Anti-Virus

Further to Anti-Virus packages, you should also consider using inbuilt firewalls to prevent unwanted inbound connections to your device. Major Operating Systems such as Windows and Mac OS include firewalls as part of the build, so no third-party tools are required. Just turning these on should give you default required protection, so no difficult configuration required.

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