October 25, 2016 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Tolgay Kizilelma, Chief Information Security Officer, UC Agriculture and Natural Resources. Technology is an integral part of our daily lives, which means cybersecurity and cyber-risk are becoming ever more important. With the growth in digital information and increased reliance…
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October 20, 2016 All Articles, Spotlights 0
By Audrie Ramirez, Information Security Intern, UCOP. Dewight Kramer, information security consultant at UC Davis, took a five-year detour from studying philosophy and computer science to serve as a martial arts apprentice. But higher education never lost its appeal, and…
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October 18, 2016 All Articles, Feature Articles 1
By Dewight Kramer, information security consultant, UC Davis. This last year it has been my pleasure to work closely with the university’s procurement department in an advising capacity to review the contracts, and especially the Data Security and Privacy appendix,…
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October 13, 2016 All Articles, Spotlights 0
By Audrie Ramirez, information security intern, UCOP. Sam Horowitz’s passion for information technology developed in his early teens. His father taught data processing and he found himself picking up books to learn more. A Texas native, he earned an undergraduate…
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October 11, 2016 All Articles, Feature Articles 2
By Julie Goldstein, cyber-risk IT security analyst, UCOP. The need for cybersecurity is increasingly evident. Major cyber attacks, ransomware attacks, and data breaches are in the news regularly. Criminals and hackers are constantly coming up with new schemes designed to…
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October 6, 2016 All Articles, Spotlights 0
By Audrie Ramirez, information security intern, UCOP. Patrick Phelan is chief information security officer (CISO) at UCSF, one of the top health care institutions in the United States. He has spent his entire career in IT within the UC system….
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October 4, 2016 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Wayne Fischer, Sr. Information Security Analyst, UC Davis. Ransomware is a type of malicious software (malware) that denies a user access to their system or files and demands payment to regain access. It is a threat to everyone because…
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September 29, 2016 All Articles, Spotlights 1
Posted by Alison Spencer, UCB student intern, UCOP. Twenty-five years ago, Calit2 research scientist Tom DeFanti (pictured right) dreamed of building 3-D telephone booths. He envisioned using them to talk to multiple people at once and to transport immersive scenes…
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September 27, 2016 All Articles, Announcements/Events 0
Posted by Julie Goldstein, Cyber-risk IT security analyst. Throughout October, National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM), the UC IT Blog will run a series of articles to promote cybersecurity awareness at UC. NCSAM is an annual, national campaign to raise…
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September 22, 2016 All Articles, Feature Articles 1
Posted by Annelie Rugg, CIO, Humanities Division, UCLA. I work with a staff of thirty at our Center for Digital Humanities. Our size makes it relatively easy to get to know one another and yet, until recently, there was a…
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