Network/Security related boilerplate

The Department of Psychology makes available significant computer resources to grant funded projects, including workstations, servers, secure networks, and technical personnel. The Department's connection to the Internet is via multiple redundant Gigbit optical fiber links, and all network traffic passes through a protective firewall. All out-world access to Fileservers holding research data require secure encrypted VPN connections, and all workstations and servers require passwords for access. The Department has well over 800 computer workstations, and about 24 web/file/ streaming-video servers hosting nearly 10 Terabytes of data. The Departmental technical support staff consists of 7 full-time technicians including web, audio-video, database, security, and computer publications specialists.