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».
WeiterlesenTime-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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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.
WeiterlesenMigration 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 students, new academic staff or new administrative and technical staff: it is worth consulting the new IT brochures when starting at ETH.
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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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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Wi-Fi goes Wi-Fi 7
The release of the 6 GHz frequency band for Wi-Fi represents the largest and most important expansion of the available frequency spectrum since the introduction of the 5 GHz band around 20 years ago. This expansion is implemented from the Wi-Fi 6E standard onwards.
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