Duo evangelist. Information Security Liaison organizer. Man with the shark hat. Operations team leader. Inaugural-year IT Awards winner. Jack-of-all-trades. Soon, ITS Information Security Specialist Tim Cline will add another description to his name: retiree. Cline retires December 22 after 11 … Continued

The idea of welcoming a robber into one’s home is obviously absurd, but craft it into a funny 30-second video public service announcement about phishing and you have yourself a winner. A group of UNC-Chapel Hill journalism students did just that to take first place in an ITS cybersecurity contest for the best video PSA for promoting awareness of phishing attempts on campus.

In a guest post for National Cyber Security Month, Glenn Morgan, an IT Security Specialist with the Information Security Office at UNC-Chapel Hill, explains what the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council is and what the organization is doing to … Continued

In a guest post for National Cyber Security Awareness Month, Charlie Mewshaw, IT Security Specialist with the Information Security Office, answers often-posed questions about passwords, including what constitutes a secure password, why password policies are the way they are, and … Continued

In a guest post for National Cyber Security Awareness Month, Chief Privacy Officer Micki Jernigan explains the purpose and intricacies of privacy reviews and security risk assessments. Privacy reviews and security risk assessments are intended to protect: individuals’ information (students, … Continued

During the 2016-2017 fiscal year, the Information Security Office at UNC-Chapel Hill continued to innovate and accelerate efforts to combat the growing number and sophistication of threats against the University’s electronic information. Here are highlights of the Information Security Office’s … Continued

All this month during National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM), ITS News will share tips, resources and insights on ways to protect yourself online. In addition to providing information to empower individual consumers to be safer and more secure online, … Continued

Effective communication with users and the support of leadership are two keys for successful adoption of the Sensitive Information Remediation Project, better known as Project SIR. That’s what Eric Richardson, with IT Operations within the Kenan-Flagler Business School, explains in … Continued

As departments and groups across UNC-Chapel Hill gradually implement the year-old Sensitive Information Remediation Project, employees of these units also have come to rely on the peace of mind that the initiative delivers. Christopher Derickson, Assistant Provost and University Registrar, … Continued

Staff members at the UNC-Chapel Hill Office of Human Resources recognize the importance of assessing the sensitive information they have on their computers and deleting and/or securing that information. The Office of Human Resources also appreciates the tools that Information … Continued