Shared service for information security and network management for East Midlands universities

Category : Computing

Feasibility study reference : FS7

Lead institution : Nottingham Trent University

Scope of the feasibility study

The East Midlands Metropolitan Area Network already provides a shared core network service and access to JANET to the partner higher education institutions (HEIs). This feasibility study will explore the demand and opportunity for developing a shared network security service to provide East Midlands HEIs with advanced 24 hour network security monitoring, alerting and response.

Total funding : £25,000

Submission of outcome report : July 2008

Pilot project outcome report(Adobe PDF 3.1Mb)

Outcome report (Adobe PDF 310K)

Web-site : http://www.esiss.ac.uk

Contacts

Main contactHEFCE lead contact
NameIan Griffiths Executive Director – EMMANPaddy Walker
InstitutionNottingham Trent UniversityHEFCE
AddressBarnes Wallis Building
Lenton Lane
NOTTINGHAM
NG1 4BU
Northavon House
Coldharbour Lane
BRISTOL
BS16 1QD
Tel0115 848 853407802 246 311
E-mailian.griffiths@ntu.ac.uk p.walker@hefce.ac.uk