Information Security Department

The Information Security Department provides a central contact point for campus security. Functions include incident handling, abuse complaint investigations, network security monitoring, security consulting, security tools for lan admins, access control for ITD applications and services, and ssl certificate management.

Symantic AntiVirus

NCSU has licensed Symantic AntiVirus Corporate Edition. It is available for use on any university owned computer system and may also be used on the personal systems of any current employed faculty or staff or currently enrolled student of North Carolina State University.
Note: as of July 14th, 2004 University Regulation 08.00.10 requires the use of Anti-Virus Software on all Windows and Mac computers.

Security Resources

This is a listing of computer security related resources that campus computer administrators and users may find useful.

Firewall Implementation Questionnaire

This is a list of questions that should help you think out some of the issues related to implementing a firewall.

SSL Certificates

One of the jobs of the Security Group is to act as approver of SSL Certificates

Security White Papers, Writeups, etc.

This is a listing of various security white papers, writeups, etc. that I have found that may be useful. There are items for both the system administrator and the average user.

ITD - Security and Virus Information

Information from ITD on various IT Security and Virus topics.

ResNet - Security

Information the NCSU ResNet staff has put together on security. This information is useful even outside ResNet.

Nessus Network Scanner

Information about NCSU Nessus deployment.