Faculty Senate ITS Project Update February 12 th, 2015

Current High-Impact Projects Microsoft Office 365 Phase I – March 2015 ProofPoint Targeted Attack Protection (TAP) – February 2015 Microsoft Lync Phase I – Summer 2015

Microsoft Office 365 Phase I Enhanced Office 365 Services for Students with Federated Authentication: one account instead of two, password resets are easy, address/login New Services for Everyone: Office 365 ProPlus (desktop/cloud office suite) and OneDrive for Business (1TB cloud storage):  Phase I – Students  Phase II – Faculty/Staff No costs to students/faculty/staff (costs covered by existing WSU Microsoft Enterprise License Agreement) Impacts:  Greatest is to students - there will be complaints despite best attempts to communicate the login change, but after the one time change life will be much better!  Staff/Faculty – Approximately 1600 faculty/staff have two accounts that must be unified per Microsoft cloud requirements.

ProofPoint Targeted Attack Protection (TAP) Background:  Phishing has become an increasingly pervasive security problem, and WSU is attacked on a regular basis.  Some percentage of the time, these attacks are successful and WSU accounts can become compromised (currently hundreds of compromised accounts per year). Benefits:  TAP provides near real-time protection.  When a user clicks on a URL or attachment included in an , the link is evaluated and then redirected to the original site unless the site is known to be malicious.  Cloud-based “big-data” analytics are used not only for the real-time checking but historical perspective on who is being targeted.

Microsoft Lync Phase I aka “Skype for Business” Primary objectives for Phase I:  Replace current end-of-life and end-of-support audio conferencing bridge (MeetingPlace)  Provide faculty/staff with ubiquitous access to web conferencing technology across multiple platforms and devices (desktops, laptops, mobile phones, tablets, Windows, and Macs)  Initial integration of existing WSU communications technology including AMS Video Conferencing and ITS Voice over IP (VoIP)  Planning for the future including cloud offerings as well as integrations with other audio/video/web conferencing (Such as Skype) On-premise infrastructure being funded by ITS MeetingPlace replacement dollars Phase I licensing is covered by WSU Microsoft Enterprise Agreement

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