Goal:

Support academic and operational excellence by providing ubiquitous and secure access to infrastructure.

Why is this important?

Our IT infrastructure is focused on modernizing and securing campus technology assets to support UCSB's long term vision. By synchronizing our local strategy with systemwide directives, we maximize the impact of our investments and create a more resilient technology environment.

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

FY 2025-26

FY 2026-27

FY 2027-28
  • Network plant refresh plan
  • Begin wireless network expansion
  • Establish network funding model
  • Improve redundancy and life safety
  • Begin IAM implementation
  • Implement network plant refresh
  • Continue wireless network expansion
  • Complete identity and access management implementation
  • Automate outage detection
  • Complete network plant refresh
  • Complete wireless network expansion

Fiscal Year 2024-2025 Initiative Progress Tracker

Foundational Capabilities Infrastructure