Why is this important?
Foundational Capabilities- IT Infrastructure is dominated by the supportive efforts to align the university with the UC Office of the President mandate modernizing and solidifying its disparate campuses in technology security and organization. Many of those efforts run parallel to strategy initiatives thus creating force multiplication and allowing for dense output from the significant investments required to meet the directive. From particular efforts such as standardizing network infrastructure, the campus will be enabled to impart new beneficial services and better meet regulatory goals laid out in the IT strategy.
Goal: Support academic and operational excellence by providing ubiquitous and secure access to infrastructure.
Objectives & Outcomes
- Network infrastructure that provides reliable, high availability across all university administration and operations, research, education and community locations (including indoor and outdoor spaces), and complies with all requirements for life safety, security, resiliency, and building monitoring.
- Expand advanced research network capabilities in labs and academic buildings.
- Transparent and complete information about infrastructure capabilities and availability to stakeholders (including reduced time to detect and communicate outages)
- Mitigate information security risks and facilitate compliance with UCOP, state, and federal requirements.
Key Strategies
- Adopt a network funding and provisioning model to make robust wired and wireless networking a core university service.
- Modernize and integrate the core infrastructure to enable secure networking and connectivity to resources.
- Continue to build resilience and agility through use of cloud technologies.
- Provide secure, role-based access to the necessary systems and software tools (identity management).
- Upgrade in-building networking to support university administration and operations, and teaching, and research needs.
- Improve communications about network services and availability.
- Upgrade data center power, cooling, and monitoring to meet business and academic continuity requirements.
Fiscal Year 2024-2025 Initiatives
- Start discovery and develop a strategy for Identity Access & Management Services
- Implement network updates to achieve Access Control
- Implement Endpoint Management
- Implement Inventory & Vulnerability Management
- Implement SSO workflows to address Cybersecurity Awareness Training compliance requirement
- Develop a refreshed operating model for North Hall Data Center
- Identify and implement a common log aggregation, monitoring, and notification platform
Roadmap - Priority Themes By Year
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Priority Theme |
FY 2024-25 |
FY 2025-26 |
FY 2026-27 |
FY 2027-28 |
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Provide ubiquitous, reliable, secure connectivity |
- Network updates to achieve Access Control |
- Network plant refresh plan - Begin wireless network expansion - Establish network funding model - Improve redundancy and life safety |
- Implement network plant refresh - Continue wireless network expansion |
- Execute strategic plan for research technology |
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Improve reliability, functionality and security of all campus endpoints |
- Endpoint Management - Inventory & Vulnerability Management - SSO for Cybersecurity Awareness Training compliance - Common log aggregation, monitoring, and notification platform |
- Automate outage detection |
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Implement a new identity and access management solution. |
- Identity and Access Management (IAM) Discovery |
- Begin IAM implementation |
- Complete IAM implementation |
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Assess and address needs to improve operations of the North Hall Data Center. |
- North Hall Data Center Operating Model |