Information Technology

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At DKFZ, Information technology (IT) is a basic need for the work of all employees. This is due, in particular, to modern laboratory techniques in the field of genome analysis as well as radiological image processing with their large data volumes on a petabyte scale. In order to gain significant information and knowledge from research data, elaborate technologies are necessary. But also the penetration of everyday work with communication technology and office applications is still increasing, as facility monitoring and more and more administrative processes are being digitized. The many aspects of IT security play an important role at DKFZ because processing of personal data takes place in many areas and is required in many national and international scientific projects and co-operations. Therefore not only confidentiality and integrity of the data and applications are important, but also the availability is essential for good co-operation. IT thus has a leading role as an enabling technology for the life sciences and especially for cancer research.

The Information Technology Core Facility (ITCF) is responsible for optimum usage of IT at DKFZ, for supporting staff of all departments in matters of choosing IT tools for their special needs as well as for providing central IT Services and support which are essential for everyone at DKFZ. Individual solutions are also supported in planning and operation. This is done on a service-oriented basis. All essential strategic and operational functions and tasks at DKFZ are substantially facilitated by the ITCF.

Working groups

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The Application Development working group develops applications for all areas of the DKFZ. These are primarily web applications in connection with databases hosted on the central servers of the IT Core Facility. We also create the appropriate APIs (programming interfaces) to enable data exchange with third-party programs at the source code level.

Management-Team

Dr. Claudia Galuschka

Head of Department
Jürgen Trauth

WG Application Development
Michael Cop

WG Desktop Services
Jan Tölken

WG IT Security
Nils Kückenhoff

WG Network
Heidrun Binder

WG Partner Sites
Markus Hohenhaus

WG Server and Compute
Heiko Rosenfelder

WG Software Systems

TÜV IT certification

For DKFZ, security of IT and data is of highest priority. Therefore a certification of the main data center has been done by TÜV Informationstechnik GmbH. This includes environmental conditions, fire detection and fire-fighting technology, safety and access systems, energy supply, air-conditioning and organization.

The data center has been certified to Trusted Site Infrastructure TSI 3.2 Level 1 (enhanced). For the elements involved in security and organization, all the criteria of the catalog were fulfilled, which also correspond to a higher level.

A corresponding certification will also be required for all other data centers which are put into operation.

Further information on this topic:

List of the Trusted Site Infrastructure Certificates issued by TÜV IT

Trusted Site Infrastructure TSI 3.2 Level 1 - Certificate DKFZ (pdf)

Internet access with "eduroam"

Eduroam is a worldwide bond of university and research networks. It enables its members in many parts of the world, especially in Europe, to easily access the Internet via WLAN using their personal user ID. The WLAN identifier (SSID) is uniformly called "eduroam".