About the IT Security and Risk Management Services Office
The role of the IT Security & Risk Management Services Office is to help preserve the confidentiality and integrity of IT systems and network resources that are managed by IT at UNSW and to ensure that those resources remain available to bona fide users in accordance with defined service levels. The office will achieve this by implementing the following:

The IT Security & Risk Management Services Office will adopt a defence-in-depth approach that includes strengthening network, hardware and software interfaces.

The IT Security and Risk Management Services Office aims to provide the following core functions: incident prevention, incident detection and response, and incident recovery.

Incident Prevention
Incident Prevention involves assessing current and potential threats and applying effective countermeasures, which help to mitigate those threats from materialising by:

Incident Response
Incident Response means identifying, containing and eradicating threats and root causes in the event of a security breach by:

Incident Recovery
Incident Recovery entails recovering from a security breach or an incident that affects the availability of critical IT systems by:

The IT Security and Risk Management Services Office can be contacted as follows:

Email: itsecurity@unsw.edu.au

Post: IT Security and Risk Management Services Office
Level 13 The Library Building (Stage II)
University of New South Wales
Kensington NSW 2052