For Faculty and SSC supported departments, SSC provides 100Base-T Ethernet. This means that data transfer rates are up to 100Mbps (megabits per second). For the uplink, SSC provides Gigabit Ethernet to its subnets. Most of the switches and servers are monitored twenty-four hours a day. A monitoring system is set up so that if any of these monitored systems fails, SSC staff will be paged within five minutes. Internet traffic is monitored using MRTG software; this software allows SSC to locate suspicious activity which typically means that a computer is hacked and trying to infect other machines.

Most subnets of Social Sciences are behind a firewall, which prevents hackers from hacking into unprotected machines. Firewalls can not prevent infected machines, within the same subnet, from infecting other machines inside the same subnet. This also does not prevent viruses and trojans so users are encouraged to use up to date Anti-virus software such as Sophos and a personal firewall such as Windows Firewall or Freeware firewall.

For questions or to report a problem, please email support@ssc.ucla.edu or view the Support Desk section of the website.