DoIT will deactivate NetID-related service accounts (i.e., My UW, WiscMail, WiscCal and dial access) for non-eligible students, faculty and staff on Tuesday, April 7, 2009. People who are valid students or who have valid appointments with the University should not see their service affected. (more…)
The Office of Campus Information Security is once again sponsoring a series of brown bag sessions for faculty and staff, this time geared to employees on the west end of campus. Brown bags will be held each Wednesday, 12 - 1 p.m., from March 4 – April 1. All brown bags are free, and no registration is required. Location: Room 1325 of the Health Sciences Learning Center. To learn more, visit http://www.doit.wisc.edu/news/story.asp?filename=1072.
Phishing scams are a growing problem on campus. Phishing attempts are often difficult to detect, since they may appear to be from a valid source (especially if that source appears to be the UW). To address this problem, the Office of Campus Information Security (OCIS) is launching a campaign to educate the campus community about phishing and email scams. OCIS has posted some useful resources online for identifying scams, including FAQs, a list of dos and don’ts, and guidelines for those who are preparing legitimate mass emails so that those mailing aren’t treated as phishing attempts. (more…)
A new web resource was launched on November 10, 2008 to improve the process of getting access to campus IT systems. It’s called the IT Access List, and it can be found at http://www.cio.wisc.edu/itaccess/. This improvement was made as a result of the work of the Administrative Process Redesign (APR) team, IT Access for Transferring Employees, in partnership with DoIT staff who helped develop and implement this new web resource. (more…)
There will be a presentation of the HUBzero Platform for Scientific Computing on Wednesday, Dec. 3 in Engineering Hall. Registration is required (no fee) and can be done at http://www.cio.wisc.edu/events/researchconf/dec08/. (more…)
The UW-Madison Information Technology Committee (ITC) and the Madison Technical Advisory Group (MTAG) recently approved a new control for enforcing changes to the NetID password. The control was put in place in response to actions taken during the recent wave of campus phishing scams, in which several campus users had their accounts compromised. DoIT froze their accounts, reset their passwords and asked them to set new passwords. Several customers went back to a recently-used password, which enabled the phishing compromise to continue. (more…)
DoIT will deactivate NetID-related service accounts (i.e., My UW, WiscMail, WiscCal and dial access) for non-eligible students, faculty and staff on Tuesday, November 11, 2008. Those who are valid students or who have valid appointments with the University should not see their service affected.
John A. Krogman has been named Chief Operating Officer of the Division of Information Technology and Associate CIO. Ron Kraemer, CIO and Vice Provost for Information Technology at the UW-Madison made the announcement today.
The Office of the CIO cordially invites you to attend the upcoming UW-Madison IT Policy Forum on Monday, November 3, 2008 from 11:30 - 1:00 p.m. at Union South (TITU). The purpose of the forum is to converse with UW-Madison faculty and staff on IT policy and help ensure widespread engagement on IT policy development. (more…)
You are cordially invited to attend the upcoming Research Computing Brownbag titled UW Networking: Enabling UW Research, on Friday, October 24 from10 a.m. - noon in the Pyle Center. For details, see http://www.cio.wisc.edu/events/researchconf/oct08/. For more information about the Research Computing Initiative or to join the ‘Research Computing Listserv’ go to: http://www.cio.wisc.edu/research/