A lot of people try to protect the content of their appointments by marking them as «Private». Be careful, though, if rights have been assigned to a calendar. Individual clients ignore privately marked appointments.
A working group of the IT security
delegates has completely revised the security information for IT
Services. The simplicity of the website is deceptive. To
put it simply: Nothing about this website has been left to chance.
What has been replaced on the Website?
Up until now, when an ETH member
searched for information about IT security in the search field on the ETH
website, the results were, shall we say, lacking. There was a page for IT
Services online but the content was randomly selected and disorganised. As a
result, the site was not able to fill the need for reliable information.
Emails are a practical and useful means
of communication. However, they are often used by fraudsters to steal
confidential data such as passwords or bank information. These so-called
phishing emails pose a real risk. Not all of them can be automatically detected
and stopped by technical email filters. This also means that phishing emails
cannot be prevented from appearing in your mailboxes now and again.
The 11th IT security campaign has started, focusing on how to keep intruders out.
Everyday life without IT devices is hard to imagine these days. They simplify our lives and accompany us almost everywhere. Unknowingly we give away more about our identity when we use these devices carelessly. Research data, hobbies, date of birth, interests, shopping behaviour or credit card numbers: Do you know what data is stored on your devices, and who has access to that data? With these tips, you can protect yourself against intruders.
Leonhard Med: Secure Scientific Platform for Confidential Data
A secure, powerful and
versatile IT infrastructure for research on confidential data at ETH Zurich
Providing
IT solutions for scientific research on confidential data (e.g. human
biomedical data) is a considerable challenge. This is because it requires
fulfilling three main criteria that span a wide area of expertise, and that are
difficult to achieve simultaneously:
Global lessons for our personalised medicine projects – GA4GH and ASHG conferences
At the end of last year have started several projects within the two major programmes: national one:
Swiss Personalized Health Network (SPHN) and
ETH-based: Personalized Health Research Technologies (PHRT)
They aim into finding novel solutions and at the same time applying in the clinical practice the principles of personalized (called also «precision») medicine. The programmes need state-of-the art IT infrastructures and providing them is the goal of the BioMedIT alliance.
Scientific IT Services takes part in several SPHN and PHRT projects and is one of the driving forces of the BioMedIT. We provide the computing infrastructure (LeonhardMed), data management solutions (openBIS), we also help and collaborate on data transfer between hospitals and academia, data analysis and security. Thus, SIS needs to actively follow the current status of knowledge and technological developments in the «hot topics» between the IT and precision medicine applications. Simply because it is largely driven by new achievements in IT, in particular in the areas such as systems security, big data, deep learning or novel collaborative methodologies. Weiterlesen
The new IT security campaign has started – «Protect your Devices» with the focus on «Prevent theft – reduce losses».
Photos, final theses, e-banking – mobile work anywhere, anytime has long since become an everyday occurrence. With this in mind, most users own several devices: a smartphone, a tablet, a laptop. Protecting these devices against theft and unauthorised access is worthwhile, because insecure devices also put your data at risk. Information security starts with the end device. PROTECT YOUR BRAINWORK. Weiterlesen