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Cybersecurity joint effort protects campus from threats

October 4, 2024

October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. All month long, ITS News will highlight how we can all secure our world. Check out all Cybersecurity Awareness Month events, or for year-round tips on staying cybersafe, visit Safe Computing at UNC. You likely know it … Read more

Celebrate National Cybersecurity Awareness Month this October

September 16, 2024

October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month and ITS and the Information Security Office are celebrating all month long with events, resources and a month-long competition against NC State University and Duke University. Founded in 2004, Cybersecurity Awareness Month, held each … Read more

Campus firewall migration project nearly complete

June 28, 2024

Four years ago, the Information Security Office kicked off a major firewall migration project. The migration, which moved about 200 unprotected VLANs (virtual local area networks) to campus enterprise firewalls, will help prevent attacks and limit the scope of attacks … Read more

Meet Information Security Liaison Deric Freeman

April 6, 2023

This is one in an occasional series of profiles of Carolina’s IT professionals who serve as liaisons in the Information Security Liaison (ISL) program, led by the Information Security Office within ITS. Position: Operations and Incident Handling Specialist for the Information … Read more

Paul Rivers joins ITS as Chief Information Security Officer

February 6, 2023

Today, February 6, Paul Rivers takes the helm as UNC-Chapel Hill’s next Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and Assistant Vice Chancellor for Information Security. The role was previously held by Dennis Schmidt, who retired in April 2022 after 24 years … Read more

A future without passwords: Part II

October 31, 2022

In the first article in this two-part series, we explored the industry-wide move to a passwordless system. In this article, we’ll look at a future without passwords for UNC-Chapel Hill. October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month. All month long, ITS News … Read more