Author Archive: UC Tech News
UC Tech News
September 19, 2018
All ArticlesInformation Security, IS-3, protection levels, Robert Smith, UCOP
By Robert Smith. The University of California has a brand new information security policy! UC President Janet Napolitano signed the policy, BFB-IS-3: Electronic Information Security Policy, on September 7, 2018. In an increasingly collaborative world that depends upon shared…
Read more about UC Adopts a New Information Security Policy
UC Tech News
September 19, 2018
All Articles, Announcements/EventsCybersecurity, cybersecurity awareness month, Events, NCSAM
UC campuses are gearing up for their annual October cybersecurity education campaigns. These include a few events, open to everyone, that you may want to attend. The events are listed below, but check the event information on the systemwide…
Read more about Don’t Miss Out – UC Cybersecurity Awareness Events
UC Tech News
September 12, 2018
All Articles, Feature ArticlesClaire Mizumoto, Cyd Burrows-Schilling, ITLC, Research IT, UC San Diego, UCSD
By Claire Mizumoto. Research Cyberinfrastructure…Research IT… Research Facilitator…Research Champion…. concierge… white glove… Whatever you choose to call it, it’s direct “high-touch” support for campus researchers. The overall objective is to advance researchers’ work and increase sponsored research at the University…
Read more about Finally! Centralized Support for UC Researchers
UC Tech News
September 12, 2018
All ArticlesProject Management, Savannah Gray, Tom Andriola, UC Berkeley, UC CIO, UCB, UCCSC
By Savannah Gray. Fun sessions that bring people together at the annual UC Computing Services Conference (UCCSC) are the “birds of a feather” meetings. Separate from the formal agenda of events, these are organized by different communities of interest as…
Read more about UC IT Project Managers Create a Systemwide Community
UC Tech News
September 5, 2018
All Articles, Feature ArticlesData Science, Fernando Perez, Jupyter, Robert Sanders, UC Berkeley, UCB
By Robert Sanders. You may not have heard of Jupyter Notebooks, but they’re taking the data science world by storm and becoming the go-to tool for sharing and improving computer code, documents, data visualizations and more. Students in UC Berkeley’s fastest-growing…
Read more about Pioneering Data Science Tool — Jupyter — Receives Top Software Prize
UC Tech News
September 5, 2018
All ArticlesCybersecurity, UC Cyber Summit, UC Riverside, UC Santa Cruz, UCR, UCSC
Register now for the UC Cyber Summit at UC Riverside on October 24. Seats are filling up fast for this popular biannual event. The summits are hosted by the UC Cyber-Risk Coordination Center to provide continuing education and networking…
Read more about UC Cyber Summit Draws Cyber Experts to UCR
UC Tech News
August 29, 2018
All Articles, Feature ArticlesJulia Chen, UC Davis, UCCSC, UCCSC 2018, UCD, video
By Julia Chen. This year’s annual UC Computing Services Conference (UCCSC) saw over 600 attendees and 150 sessions, making it the largest conference yet. UC IT professionals gathered at UC Davis for three days of fantastic panels, activities, and networking…
Read more about UCCSC 2018 Video Recap: Sustainable Solutions
UC Tech News
August 29, 2018
All Articlesfirst-timers, Jeané Blunt, UCCSC, UCCSC 2018, UCOP
By Jeané Blunt. I recently attended the University of California Computing Services Conference (UCCSC) at UC Davis. This year’s conference was held August 13-15th and had over 600 attendees, making it the largest since UCCSC’s inception in 1983. Being a…
Read more about UCCSC: A First-Timer’s Perspective
UC Tech News
August 22, 2018
All Articles, Feature Articles2-step verification, Community, Jeremy Rosenberg, outreach, UC Berkeley, UCB
By Jeremy Rosenberg. UC Berkeley recently completed a whirlwind project to enroll all 25,000 staff and faculty into its 2-Step verification program (and even managed to pick up 6,000 students along the way). To meet the aggressive schedule set by…
Read more about Stepping Up to Better Security at UC Berkeley
UC Tech News
August 22, 2018
All Articlesblog, Tom Andriola, UC CIO, UCOP, welcome
By Tom Andriola. Over 200 people learned about and subscribed to the UC IT Blog at this year’s UCCSC. This is just fantastic. That’s 200 more people who will read your UC stories; 200 more people who will learn about…
Read more about Big Jump in Blog Subscribers