Kategorie: IT-SEC

Lecture Safeguarding Biomedical Data / IT Security in Biomedical Research

Lecture as part of the Informatiktage 2025: The IT Services of ETH Zurich and IT-Women@ETH present the crucial role of IT security in biomedical research and provide insights into systems for detecting intruders to prevent the exfiltration of data.

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ETH’s new directive landscape

On 1 January 2025, the new directive landscape for information security came into force at ETH Zurich.

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Categorisation to protect: Tiered data protection

With malicious cyber attacks on the rise, every organisation needs to act and protect its data. To optimise resources, only critical and vital data must be protected with the highest levels of security and redundancy, while less important data can just be given standard protection. The key is to understand which data is vital and which is merely important. ETH has developed a protection strategy based on four data tiers, with Tier 1 at the top and Tier 4 at the bottom of the «importance pyramid».

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Time-of-click protection for URLs

Microsoft now provides «time-of-click» checking of the URLs found in email messages and documents such as MS Word files and spread-sheets.

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ISO recertification successfully completed

ETH Zurich’s IT Services are certified according to ISO/IEC 20000-1 and ISO/IEC 27001. This year (2024), ITS passed the recertification process again, and the validity of the two certificates was extended until 2027.

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Migration of email filter to Exchange Online Protection

As part of the migration of personal mailboxes to the cloud, the email filter (spam filter) has been switched from MailCleaner to Exchange Online Protection (EOP).

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New Onboarding IT Brochures

New students, new academic staff or new administrative and technical staff: it is worth consulting the new IT brochures when starting at ETH.

Three new onboarding IT brochures
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Guest WLAN (Wi-Fi)

You are visiting ETH Zurich and need WLAN access. For example, to download the ETH Tours app. What can you do if you do not have an ETH login for Internet access?

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What is going on in the IT Services department?

Three times a year we publish the external newsletter inside|out in German and English. Find out what’s going on in IT at ETH Zurich. Subscribe to the newsletter to stay up to date.

Newsletter inside|out No 34
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Target systems: Active Directory, LDAPS, Radius

Good to know: Active Directory, LDAPS and Radius are authentication infrastructures that are used for the utilisation of identities (persons) and for the assignment of access rights in a network. They ensure that only authenticated users (persons) can access information and systems.

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