Dear Departmental Support Customers, On Monday, January 28, Webex will become available for all campus faculty and staff. Webex Meetings and Webex Teams will be accessible via any browser and also available as desktop applications. The desktop applications provide valuable additional features like Outlook integration, making it easier for individuals to create and join meetings …
Dear DoIT VIP Customer: As we enter into the fall semester, we wanted to take an opportunity to remind you that DoIT is here to help with your technology needs. To view all of the ways to contact DoIT for support, please click here. Additionally, based on the insights and feedback of our customers, we …
This CISO’s Perspective blog is adapted from an article published in CIO Review online. Here at UW-Madison, we are constantly reminded of the increasing threat to information, systems and data. Every day there is a new angle that threat actors, criminals and cyber punks (circle one) are taking to disrupt, destroy, or damage our ability …
As far back as the Confirmation classes I took when I was in middle school (which I remember being called Junior High School), I’ve always thought of the first five books of the Bible as setting the baseline for how people should act. Our pastors and teachers called these books The Pentateuch…
As a general rule, fear, uncertainty and doubt (known as FUD in cybersecurity circles) are discouraged as an effective method of influencing audiences. Is there ever a situation where FUD is useful? Sam Curry is the Chief Security Officer at Cybereason which is a popular consulting firm. Sam writes that in small doses, FUD can …
The CISO’s Perspective 2018 – June At the University of Wisconsin–Madison, we know the higher education and research communities are, in practice and by necessity, an open and collaborative society driven by the need to share information without hindrance. Daily business practices have the potential to expose protected personal or healthcare information, sensitive or unpublished …
We’ve been very busy in the Office of Cybersecurity. But now I can get back to sharing my thoughts on an important topic — multi-factor authentication.
Social engineering attacks are on the rise in higher education. In 2017, Canada’s CBC News reported that MacEwan University in Edmonton was defrauded of $11.8 million after a staff member fell victim to a phishing attack; a popular social engineering tactic. In the email, the social engineer impersonated a vendor requesting a change in banking …
The CISO’s Perspective Special Edition | Cyber criminals are constantly devising new and creative ways to scam you and compromise your personal and professional data. This article contains steps you can take to protect yourself and become a better cybercitizen.
The CISO’s Perspective / 2017 4th Edition Prior to the Renaissance, many mathematicians, theologians and philosophers believed the Earth was the center of a finite universe and that the sun, planets and stars orbited around it. In 1543, the Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus published a thesis in which introduced a radically new idea that changed …