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Sustainable IT Strategies: Forum SI 2024

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This lecture presents the Forum SI held at EPFL on February 6, 2024, focusing on sustainable IT practices and strategies. The event features discussions on various topics, including the sustainability of IT applications, the deployment of Microsoft 365, and the introduction of a new identity provider. The instructor outlines the importance of eco-design in digital services and the environmental impact of IT, emphasizing the need for a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. The forum also addresses the current state of IT security, highlighting new tools and strategies to enhance security awareness among users. Additionally, the lecture covers the school's data storage strategy, aiming to provide scalable and reliable storage solutions that align with EPFL's sustainability goals. The session concludes with a call for collaboration among IT professionals at EPFL to address these critical issues and improve the overall IT landscape.

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Computer security

Computer security, cyber security, digital security or information technology security (IT security) is the protection of computer systems and networks from attacks by malicious actors that may result in unauthorized information disclosure, theft of, or damage to hardware, software, or data, as well as from the disruption or misdirection of the services they provide. The field is significant due to the expanded reliance on computer systems, the Internet, and wireless network standards such as Bluetooth and Wi-Fi.

Security

Security is protection from, or resilience against, potential harm (or other unwanted coercion) caused by others, by restraining the freedom of others to act. Beneficiaries (technically referents) of security may be of persons and social groups, objects and institutions, ecosystems or any other entity or phenomenon vulnerable to unwanted change. Security mostly refers to protection from hostile forces, but it has a wide range of other senses: for example, as the absence of harm (e.g.

Sustainability

Sustainability is a social goal for people to co-exist on Earth over a long time. Specific definitions of this term are disputed and have varied with literature, context, and time. Experts often describe sustainability as having three dimensions (or pillars): environmental, economic, and social, and many publications emphasize the environmental dimension. In everyday use, sustainability often focuses on countering major environmental problems, including climate change, loss of biodiversity, loss of ecosystem services, land degradation, and air and water pollution.

Microsoft 365

Microsoft 365 is a product family of productivity software, collaboration and cloud-based services owned by Microsoft. It encompasses online services such as Outlook.com, OneDrive, Microsoft Teams, programs formerly marketed under the name Microsoft Office (including applications such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook on Microsoft Windows, macOS, mobile devices, and on the web), enterprise products and services associated with these products such as Exchange Server, SharePoint, and Yammer.

Information security audit

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