As part of your Cybersecurity Month activities this October, switch your devices’ Wi-Fi connections to eduroam. It’s not just fast and preferred by the UW, it’s also encrypted to make your communications all the more secure.
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Take the #NoMouse Challenge!
Join UW-IT in this accessibility awareness campaign — and ongoing efforts to improve accessible web design. Can you navigate this page without a mouse?
Keep forgetting your passwords? Get a password manager
Automatically fill in passwords and safely share passwords with others by using LastPass, a secure browser-based password management tool. Available to UW employees with a valid budget.
Elevate your security awareness with this upcoming workshop
The Nov. 15 Office of Information Security workshop will help attendees better understand how to prevent someone from breaking or hacking web applications. It’s free for all UW staff.
Beware of tech support scams
They’re among the most insidious of scams — when someone claims to be from tech support and offers to help. Learn how to keep these bad actors at bay.
Faculty: Engage your students with Poll Everywhere
Present polls, knowledge checks, and other activities to engage and assess students using Poll Everywhere, a web and SMS text-messaging student response system.
UW-IT chooses new AVP to lead critical Infrastructure division
A former Fortune 500 executive with decades of experience in IT operations, cloud platforms, data and visualization technologies has been selected as UW-IT’s new Associate Vice President for the Infrastructure division and Chief Technology Officer (CTO).
Self-sustaining rates for UW-IT services to increase in FY 2024
In response to financial impacts caused by deferred IT maintenance and refresh projects following global pandemic and supply chain disruptions, UW-IT will be increasing rates for several IT services starting Oct. 1.
Rev up your classes with Jupyter Notebook
UW faculty, do your classes rely on heavy computing use? If you’re not already using our JupyterHub service, find out what we can do for you now!
Is your UW Google Shared Drive pending deletion? Act before 8/29 to save content
Check your Shared Drive. If you see “PENDING DELETE,” review the content to see if you need to download it and save it elsewhere.