Digital Infrastructure Cyber Web Portfolio Group

Digital Infrastructure, Cyber & Web Portfolio Group

The primary purpose of the Digital Infrastructure, Cyber & Web Portfolio Group is to provide strategic and operational oversight, and to seek and provide institutional assurance in relation to the University’s core digital infrastructure, cyber security, web estate, and related foundational digital platforms and services. This includes, but is not limited to:

• Foundational IT Services and Platforms: Oversee the development, improvement, resilience, efficiency, accessibility and alignment to University strategy and user needs of foundational IT Services and platforms including: Client device and desktop services, IT labs, IT services desks, enterprise virtual services, general (non-research) storage, identity and access management, and other core infrastructure services within the portfolio.• Cyber Security Strategy: Contribute to and support the development and implementation of the University's cyber security strategy, aligned with legal and regulatory requirements, sector good practices, and the evolving threat landscape; ensuring an appropriate and proportional balance of cyber risk within the Wider digital risk landscape.• Digital Infrastructure Development: Overseeing the strategic planning, development, maintenance and rationalisation of the University's foundational digital infrastructure, including networks, data centres, cloud platforms, webVersion: Final v1.0 05.05.26estate, servers, identity management systems and other shared infrastructure and hosting services relevant to the portfolio. • Datacentres and Datacentre Management: Oversee the development, management, allocation, efficiency resilience, sustainability and governance of the University's datacentres and related hosting environments.• Web Estate: Ensure the University has an efficient, accessible compliant, effective user-centred web estate supported by appropriate governance, web content support arrangements, and a standard set of web tools and services where this adds value.• Web Estate Governance: Identify, assess and advise on the mitigation of risks relating to the University’s web estate, including technical, accessibility, information security, data protection, financial, reputational and compliance risks.• AI Platforms and Cross-Cutting AI Foundations: Oversee the strategic direction, suitability and alignment of institutional AI platforms, APIs, enabling services and related technical foundations within the Group’s remit, including consideration of user need, ethics, accessibility, operability, cost, environmental impact, longevity, interoperability and information security. Domain-specific application of AI within research, teaching and learning, or professional services shall be considered with the relevant Portfolio Group(s) where appropriate.• Risk Management: Oversee critical IT risks within the portfolio area and review portfolio-level risks as a standing item on the agenda. Receive assurance from Colleges and Professional Services Groups, and their constituent parts, that appropriate measures are in place to identify assess, and mitigate relevant cyber, infrastructure and web risks. Review annually the key IT related risks from across the University; and recommend to Strategic IT Committee any risks that should be considered as Strategic IT Risks.• Resilience & Business Continuity: Ensure appropriate oversight of the resilience, recoverability and availability of critical IT systems and services within the portfolio, including disaster recovery and business continuity planning for in-scope services and infrastructure• Compliance: Monitor and advise on compliance with relevant legislation regulation, standards and internal policy relevant to the portfolio, including for example GDPR, web accessibility requirements, information security requirements, and related legal or regulatory obligations.• Innovation & Future Trends: Horizon scanning for emerging infrastructure technologies, cyber security threats web trends, AI platform developments and other relevant changes, recommending proactive measures and strategic investments where appropriate.• Digital Accessibility: Ensure alignment with the University’s Digital Accessibility policy, associated guidance. Promoting awareness of the need for all IT platforms and services within the portfolios remit to be accessible and to promote the accessibility of all content added to these IT platforms and services as defined by current standards.Sustainability and Ethical IT Sourcing: Support and help underpin the University’s sustainability environmental and carbon commitments through proportionate Green IT assessment, ethical IT sourcing and improved transparency of IT energy, carbon and environmental impacts.Version: Final v1.0 05.05.26• Digital Estate: Oversight of the major Digital Estates platforms and services assigned to this Portfolio Group, listed in the heatmap in Appendix 2. 

The Group will take a presumption in favour of simplification, rationalisation, common platforms and reuse where duplication adds limited value, while recognising that some diversity of provision may be justified by business need, risk, resilience or specialist requirements. 

In carrying out its remit, the Group will work closely with the other Portfolio Groups where responsibilities overlap, particularly in relation to shared infrastructure, identity and access management, cloud platforms, data storage, cyber security, AI foundations, enterprise hosting, resilience, and web platforms.

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