Every part of a university nowadays is highly dependent on data, be it research, teaching or administration. In the meantime, the diversity of data storing device types increases while the amount of data is growing exponentially in the age of the Internet of Things. Starting from this dependency on data of almost every aspect of a university we are running a cross-university project in the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) with the aim to build up a cross-university co-operative service for data protection. We derived work packages in order to define the future state-wide service according to the technical, procedural and functional requirements as well as to the expectations and demands of our stakeholders, the latter being confirmed by a survey. The goal is to fundamentally improve data backup and data availability through the cooperatively provided basic IT service “Datensicherung.nrw” using cross-university processes. This is accompanied by a significant improvement in cyber security and ensuring the digital capacity to act of the participating universities, as well as the creation of synergies in the field of cooperative digitization among the state universities of North Rhine-Westphalia.
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