Online commerce is expected to hit 8 trillion dollars in sales by 2026, but data breaches of retailers have already compromised hundreds of millions of records. One in ten Americans have already lost money to cybercrime, and according to the FTC, “Online shopping issues were the second most commonly reported in the fraud category,” contributing to Americans losing… Read More »
SUMIT and Safe Computing events last month celebrated and promoted IT security at U-M – slide presentations and recordings are available.
Cyber threats from data breaches to phishing scams and online disinformation continue to evolve in complexity.
Phishing and scams target university students across higher education. Help protect U-M students by spreading awareness of job offer and football ticket scams.
As you prepare to travel, you will likely take along some combination of a smartphone, tablet, laptop, and other mobile devices. Follow these tips to safeguard both your own and the university’s data.
Preserving your data and privacy during the holidays is more important than ever. Follow these tips from Safe Computing to get started.
Learn how to protect yourself while online shopping this holiday season.
Multi-factor authentication is an important capability that helps secure the login process. Learn how to avoid getting caught by MFA scams.
SUMIT events celebrated and promoted IT security at U-M – slide presentations are available.
LSA and ITS Information Assurance partner to reach more students with cybersecurity scam announcements.
More than 1,000 of the University of Michigan websites are protected with U-M Cloudflare, a significant milestone for the project implementation team. Cloudflare provides a critical security capability to protect university websites, web applications, and DNS (Domain Name System) servers from Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks and break-in or takeover attempts. Work continues to get more sites… Read More »
Information Assurance will deploy a new CrowdStrike Falcon feature on Windows computers: the Falcon Sensor Status icon.
U-M IT professionals who manage Active Directory (AD) accounts in UMROOT have an important responsibility for the security of those accounts. This responsibility includes ensuring that they are: Those who manage AD accounts in UMROOT should review a complete list of guidelines annually. Please see Active Directory Non-uniqname Accounts (U-M Weblogin required). Thank you for diligence in managing… Read More »
As the U-M community settles into study, work and life during the fall semester, news of breaches, scams, and disinformation abound.
ITS will begin disabling inactive Active Directory (UMROOT) accounts on a daily basis beginning October 9, 2024, as part of an ongoing effort to protect credentials in accordance with the Access, Authorization, and Authentication Management (DS-22) standard.
Starting Wednesday, September 25, 2024, at 12 p.m., Duo two-factor authentication push notifications will require university community members on the Ann Arbor, Dearborn, and Flint campuses to enter a three-digit code when they access U-M Weblogin. Michigan Medicine transitioned to the change on August 9. The enhancement, which impacts faculty, staff, students, alumni, and sponsored affiliates, is designed… Read More »
The Office of the Vice President for Communications (OVPC), in collaboration with ITS Information Assurance (IA), has released a new consent and preference management solution for U-M websites. Integration is easy – try it today!
PlasmaPup, a Windows GUI app written at U-M, gives Active Directory admins visibility and control. It is available to download on GitHub!
Two April events brought the U-M IT security community together in a spirit of engagement, transparency and shared goals.
Information Assurance (IA) provides Tenable Vulnerability Scanning for units. As outlined in the Vulnerability Management standard, IA also blocks systems when serious vulnerabilities reported to a unit remain unaddressed.