Glenn Hilditch
Director: IT Infrastructure & Cybersecurity (IC)
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IIS provides campus-wide access to the network, Internet, email, and manages the IT infrastructure and IT security for all centrally managed systems at McGill. IC also liaises with Legal Services and Procurement Services to support vendor risk management and PCI compliance. In addition, IC supports audit mandates, the development and review of IT policies, and reporting to the government. IIS is composed of five teams:
- Cloud & Compute Services (managed by Sanghamitra Dutt): Manages operating systems, infrastructure applications, and cloud platforms—covering IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) for virtualized computing resources and PaaS (Platform as a Service) for application development and deployment to support network and unified communications (email, instant messaging, cloud storage, DNS, DHCP, etc.).
- Information Security (managed by Hayson Wong): protects the McGill network and information systems against cyber threats and reduces vulnerabilities by setting security policies and implementing security solutions, including endpoint protection, event monitoring, and two-factor authentication. In collaboration with other units, Information Security supports and sponsors cybersecurity awareness initiatives within McGill’s community.
- Enterprise Platform Management (managed by John Longo): provides and operates administrative applications infrastructures and services such as central databases, middleware, and API platforms.
- Network & Telecom (managed by Spiro Mitsialis): manages wireless and wired networks, and related components.
- Physical Storage and Data Centre Ops (managed by Stephan Lengacher): This team is responsible for server management (virtual and physical servers), data storage and backup, and central IT Data Centres. This team will also have a centre of excellence for infrastructure architecture.
