Virus protection
Virus protection concept of the Faculty
The security concept of the Faculty provides protection against viruses and malware based on the following pillars:
- automatical virus check during the access to the data on all of the file servers
- current and automatically actualized virus scanner on all of the networked computers, with the alternative product to point 1 if possible
- virus scan in all emails
- education and training as well as instruction of workers and students
The above points will be implemented as following:
- virus scan with Sophos antivirus on all of the Fileservers and multiple daily updates via the update server of ZIH (responsible: administrator of the professorship and IT Coordinator of the Faculty)
- Installation of the virus scanner on all of the networked Windows computers, based on the regulations of the Dean of the Faculty. In addition to Sophos Antivirus the Windows Defender is used (responsible: administrator of the professorship)
- virus scan of all of the incoming and outgoing emails on the Mailrelay of TU Dresden
- regular training of all of the workers, detailed safety instructions for the students at the beginning of the semester
- involving of the Complex data network and data security in the obligatory learning module FQ - Computeranwendungen