UCISA Conference Day Two (March 12)

Ed Gibson - chief (cyber) security advisor Microsoft.

Ex FBI - made an MOT analogy that it’s not enough to get the ticket once a year without further maintenance and repairs during the year - the same applies to our software systems - we must keep your systems maintained - not just for our benefit, but also to protect everyone else on the network. Not enough people are doing this routinely (reminded me of the virus

Free is not good – the major banks HSBC and Barclays provide free malware software ton online customers and only 5-7% take the offer up. The key thing is to do the software updates. Have a conversation about the impact of social networking sites from a security perspective.

Rod Angood (DynoRod) - University of Bath

Story of putting dark fibre through the drains of City of Bath. Winner of e-Goverment National Awards 2008 for innovation at a local level. Traffic congested city and a world heritage site – a challenging city environment. City based halls of accommodation (3000+ new intake) which are in the City about 2Km away from the campus on the downs. Five halls of residence previously connected via 10MB leased lines. A doubling of network capacity every 18 months was planning scenario. Web 2.0 incoming traffic quadrupled within 5 months . Warty moment - the management board meeting did not receive monitoring information although it was being collected. A system for performance monitoring and stats has now been implemented.

Educational video provided for students by academic staff (warty moment) and this had compounded the problem (not just Youtube). Bath has also recently updated its acceptable use policies – Expanding capacity from 10MB to 1GB and dual-routed for business continuity, upgrade university firewall for increased throughput, Supplier called H2O solutions lease costs £30k per year which are fixed for ten years including the BC (would have been £300k capital and then recurrent). IPTV from inuk adds additional service package for the student – free TV, free radio channels, IP based telephony. By April 2008 – 66% of all students, By Mar 2009 85% in all University rooms of accommodation were using the services. The digital divide – students living in shared accommodation etc who have to make their own arrangements.