IT Professionals, As important as it is to be vigilant in securing our IT assets and institutional data, we must be equally committed to reporting to appropriate parties when a security incident (or suspected incident) occurs. An emergency IT incident, such as an exposure of critical data or potential violation of the Health Insurance Portability and… Read more »

IT Professionals: The IT Leadership Community’s Mentorship Program [1] recently celebrated the success of its first mentor/mentee cohort—the class of 2019. Thanks to people just like you who participated as mentors or mentees in 2019, we were able to build a strong foundation for a mentorship program in our workplace. As we start the new… Read more »

IT Professionals, As mentioned in a previously sent email from January 7, ITCP is hosting an infoshare to discuss the Red Hat License and Satellite Service changes. The infoshare will take place on February 26, at 11:00 AM in Wrubel Commons. We will also broadcast on Zoom, and we will send out a registration link about 2 weeks before the event. As part of the infoshare, we will have a… Read more »

IT Professionals: Every year, UITS sponsors a leadership workshop called IT Leadership Boot Camp at Bradford Woods for up and coming leaders in information technology at IU.  We will host our 11th Boot Camp in summer 2020.  Thirty-six people will have the opportunity to participate in three full-day, interactive sessions to learn about Strength Based Leadership, interact with… Read more »

IT Professionals: UITS Telecommunications has been informed of a number of vulnerabilities [1, 2, 3] in the Polycom VVX series of IP phones [4].  This vulnerability may allow remote code execution.  Due to the severity of the threat, UITS Telecom has elected to push a firmware upgrade to all VVX phones. As a result of… Read more »

IT Professionals: As you may know, the University Information Policy Office (UIPO) and University Information Security Office (UISO) routinely communicate via email regarding passphrase scrambles, compromised devices, vulnerable hosts, daily usage reports, and non-US login reports for users within the department(s) supported by your IT unit.  These notices rely upon information within IT People [1]… Read more »

Greetings! In this issue of the IU Cloud Technology newsletter we are focusing on training. We have several training opportunities, some one-time and some ongoing. The first one listed is very soon, so act quickly if you’d like to take advantage of it. 1 — Free Microsoft Certified Azure Fundamentals training February 5 (register by… Read more »

Hello IT Professionals, Although our renovated classroom is not quite available, our EdCert courses still are! We’re pleased to announce this EdCert schedule will include a new course which provides the basic concepts to successfully manage small- to medium-sized projects, inside and outside of IT.  CompTIA Project+ covers essential project management concepts beyond the scope of a single methodology or framework…. Read more »

IT Professionals, The Web Services Support & Enterprise Web Technical Services teams has contacted Webserve owners directly with the below text.  The communication is a reminder that all Webserve accounts not migrated to IU Sitehosting will be disabled on March 20, 2020. You can view Webserve accounts that you own [1] and if you’d like to get a list of group Webserve accounts for the units… Read more »

IT Professionals: Regarding the message titled “Wireless Security Certificate Updates Scheduled 1/22/2020” sent on Thursday, January 16, 2020 by IT Community Partnerships, the following paragraph should have been omitted: “Campus Networks is working with Leveraged Services to package the new certificates for distribution via SCCM, Casper, and AirWatch. Devices that receive the certificate via these… Read more »