January 30, 2019 All Articles, Feature Articles 1
By Jim Phillips and Jim Williamson. Our campuses are awash in data, and there are many initiatives underway to capture, store, and use that data for analysis, predictions, and, in some cases, prescriptive action(s) based on those predictions. When an…
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January 23, 2019 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Yvonne Tevis. In April 2018, the University of California and Cisco signed a three-year strategic partnership agreement, formally recognizing an informal relationship of twenty-years’ standing, and committing to innovative programs for mutual benefit. The partnership is an offshoot of…
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January 23, 2019 All Articles 0
Did you miss the December 12 webinar on the Cisco Products Portfolio and UC’s contract with Cisco? The recording is available and captioned. You don’t have to commit to the full 90 minutes! Check the agenda for the products…
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January 9, 2019 All Articles, Feature Articles 1
By Jeané Blunt. Camille Crittenden was the keynote speaker at the biannual UC Cyber Security Summit, held at UC Riverside, October 24, and hosted by the UC Cyber-Risk Coordination Center. She spoke compellingly about the lack of diversity in…
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December 19, 2018 All Articles 1
Developing a campus-wide Science DMZ takes time, commitment, and lots of advocacy, according to Joshua Sonstroem, systems administrator at the University of California, Santa Cruz. If successful, however, the resulting cyberinfrastructure helps ensure that faculty and students can join in…
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December 5, 2018 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Scott Seaborn. On May 25, 2018, the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went live, significantly changing the international privacy landscape and raising the regulatory stakes for institutions and companies working with the personal data of persons in Europe. …
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November 28, 2018 All Articles 0
Online shopping continues to grow in popularity. This past Cyber Monday was the biggest online shopping day ever in the US, and broke records in mobile sales. Unfortunately, the ease and convenience of online shopping makes the holiday season…
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October 31, 2018 All Articles, Feature Articles 1
By Yvonne Tevis. It was a stormy night on the Dark Web. But on a sunny UC campus one morning, Jack Tern was plowing through email. The ‘replies-to-all’ were driving him batty. So much work piling up, meetings to arrange, invoices…
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October 31, 2018 All Articles 0
By Timo Papandreopoulos and Julie Goldstein. Passwords are the keys to most devices and almost everything you do online. Unfortunately, even the best passwords can get hacked, stolen, or unintentionally shared. Fortunately, there is an easy way to add another…
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October 22, 2018 All Articles 0
By Michelle Phung, Isabelle Nguyen and Julie Goldstein. Passwords are the key to almost everything you do online, and you probably have multiple passwords that you use throughout the day. Choosing hard-to-hack passwords and managing them securely can sometimes seem…
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