This month, for Cybersecurity Awareness Month, we introduce you to the IT Security Architecture team within the Information Security Office (ISO). It is one of four teams within the ISO along with the Network Security team, the Operations and Incident … Read more

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, a national campaign now marking its 18th year. In conjunction with other efforts to promote online safety and security, ITS will share cybersecurity tips, resources, and stories about how the Information Security Office works to … Read more

The Information Security Office will roll out to campus a phish reporting button that enables users to report phishing and spam messages with the click of a button. The ISO hopes that use of this Microsoft Office 365 functionality will lighten the load on the ITS Service Desk and Tier 2. “After several simulated phishing campaigns, a review of … Read more

The Information Security Office’s half-day virtual event on March 26 drew about 100 campus members. Data@Rest: Bits n’ Bytes featured a variety of speakers from Carolina’s IT community in a TED Talk style format. “Seeing folks from across the University … Read more

Since late November, the ITS Service Desk has been using Duo Push to reset customers’ Onyen passwords and to reset and unlock 2-Step verification for Microsoft 365 applications (MFA), including University email accounts. The Information Security Office worked with the … Read more

ITS Identity Management is releasing an updated version of its Improvadmin platform in mid-January, which includes migrating the code to a modern Java stack. Improvadmin is an interface used by the ITS Service Desk, Information Security Office and Identity Management … Read more

During the summer, the Information Security Office faced a challenge — the campus community began requiring an increasing number of risk assessments. The increased demand for security risk assessments was due to the University’s transition to 100% working from home … Read more

Last spring, ITS Identity Management (IdM) started an effort to provision and deprovision University systems within midPoint. Now, the team is extending the use of midPoint to tackle three new projects. The projects include the deprovisioning of Microsoft OneDrive and … Read more

SecurityCon 2020, the Information Security Office’s annual conference on October 9, featured conversations about increased cybersecurity concerns related to remote work and learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. Dennis Schmidt, Chief Information Security Officer and Assistant Vice Chancellor at UNC-Chapel Hill … Read more

SecurityCon 2020 drew a record-breaking number of registrations and attendees — of course via Zoom, given the COVID-19 pandemic. The Information Security Office’s first virtual SecurityCon on October 9 drew more than 150 registrants for the talks, 20-plus for the Capture … Read more

Season three of Data@Rest, a podcast produced by Charlie Mewshaw and Michael Williams of UNC-Chapel Hill’s Information Security Office, was released in September. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Mewshaw and Williams recorded the podcast in the UNC School of Medicine’s state … Read more

The Information Security Office’s annual SecurityCon event will be held on October 9. While the conference will be fully virtual this year, event managers Charlie Mewshaw and Michael Williams of the Information Security Office strive to uphold the success of … Read more