{"id":202,"date":"2012-01-02T08:46:55","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T08:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/?p=202"},"modified":"2011-12-30T14:55:04","modified_gmt":"2011-12-30T14:55:04","slug":"free-ssl-security-certificates-for-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/?p=202","title":{"rendered":"Free SSL security certificates for school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ja.net\/services\/jcs\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-231\" title=\"Link to janet website\" src=\"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/janet.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"138\" \/><\/a>One of my goals of this site is to raise the profile (even if just a little) of the issues that UK schools face throughout the year.<\/p>\n<p>One such problem is how to deploy remotely accessible services (VPNs\/Terminal Server\/Citrix VDI\/or the famous <a href=\"http:\/\/hap.codeplex.com\/\">Home Access Plus+)<\/a>\u00a0in a secure but low cost manner. Obviously a key part of these services is security and for modern web security you need a <strong>SSL Security Certificate<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Most hosting companies will charge \u00a340+ a year for even the most basic of SSL certificates (and personally I would put that into more RAM for a server!) but luckily\u00a0<strong>JANET<\/strong> (the Joint Academic NETwork) offers <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>any<\/strong><\/span> school, college or university <strong>completely free security certificates<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Schools have the extra hoop to jump through in the sense that they have to apply through their LEA\/RBC; but, I know for one thing Oxfordshire County Council are doing well with this and we already have two certificates protecting both our web portal and VPN.<\/p>\n<p>For more information visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ja.net\/services\/jcs\">JANET Certificate Service web page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my goals of this site is to raise the profile (even if just a little) of the issues that UK schools face throughout the year. One such problem is how to deploy remotely accessible services (VPNs\/Terminal Server\/Citrix VDI\/or the famous Home Access Plus+)\u00a0in a secure but low cost manner. Obviously a key part of these services is security&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/?p=202\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[41,40],"series":[],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-working","tag-schools","tag-ssl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions\/249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=202"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}