Tag: IT Services

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:

1. security and compliance
2. flexibility and ease of use and
3. scalability and performance

Posted on 04.03.2019 by Sabine Hoffmann,

“Reconnect your private devices to the ETH network.”

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Posted on 05.11.2018 by Sabine Hoffmann,

IT Services has now been officially recertified according to ISO/IEC 20000-1 and ISO/IEC 27001.
The last recertification took place in June 2018. The next regular recertification will be due in mid-2021. Read more

Posted on 24.10.2018 by Dieter Gut,

The IT Services warmly welcomes all first semester students and re-entrants! Today on Monday the fall semester at ETH Zurich begins with 4,500 new Bachelor’s and Master’s students. More than 21,000 students and doctoral students are enrolled for the new semester. A new record.

IT Services

The IT Services offers all enrolled students, auditors and graduate students basic ICT services free of charge. More about our services, suggestions and links can be found in our “ITS Brochure for Students” and on the ETH Student portal.
The most common problems and questions are briefly explained in the “FAQ for Students“. Read more

Posted on 17.09.2018 by Sabine Hoffmann,

The Informatiktage 2018 will take place on Friday 1 & Saturday 2 June 2018. We are looking forward to your visit!

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Posted on 04.05.2018 by Sabine Hoffmann,

NotPetya and WannaCry kept the entire IT landscape on its toes in 2017, and it was replaced at the beginning of 2018 with Spectre and Meltdown. This meant IT security became an everyday topic, and not only for specialists. Even though such massive problems are initially very bad news for the reputation of an entire sector, there are nevertheless some positive side effects. In this case, it means above all that “Security Awareness” was once again on everyone’s mind. This in turn often produces the need for new products and services. Read more

Posted on 04.03.2019 by Juraj Novak,

An ever increasing number of mobile devices are being used to surf the internet. And we wish to support this development at ETH Zurich. IT Services and Corporate Communications have carried out a joint project, that makes the websites on our Web Content Managment System responsive.

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Posted on 31.10.2017 by Gerhild Müller,

The IT Services warmly welcomes all first semester students and re-entrants! Read more

Posted on 16.09.2016 by Sabine Hoffmann,

Exciting new developments in the IT environment of ETH Zurich and  IT Training.  What will be different in the future and what is the impact on you? Read more

Posted on 05.04.2016 by Sabine Hoffmann,

Research data management and Open Data are big topics at Swiss universities. Read more

Posted on 31.03.2016 by Sabine Hoffmann,