This month, for Cybersecurity Awareness Month, we asked Latashia Mccormick, Risk Team Lead with the Information Security Office (ISO), to share what it’s like working in cybersecurity and what she brings to the job. A native of Kinston in eastern … 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

When the Information Security Office transitioned to remote operations back in March, the team members’ first concern was making sure that they were communicating effectively. They quickly decided that the best way to reach their audiences was through a multi-channel … 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

In 2019, the University’s security awareness training was completely transformed with the introduction of a new training module. Since then, the Information Security Office within ITS has made significant progress in expanding the program to groups across campus. So far, … Read more

At its meeting next month, the Information Security Liaison (ISL) program’s advisory board will mark eight months since its initial kick-off meeting. After that kick-off meeting in March, advisory board members met in June to conduct the first official meeting. … Read more