November 14, 2018 All Articles 0
By Thomas Trappler. In March 2018, the United States Trade Representative (USTR) issued a report detailing its investigation of China’s trade practices related to intellectual property. To address issues surfaced in the report, the USTR subsequently announced additional tariffs…
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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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September 19, 2018 All Articles 1
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…
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August 29, 2018 All Articles 0
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…
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August 22, 2018 All Articles 0
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…
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July 25, 2018 All Articles, Feature Articles 1
By Michael Wegmann. UC Procurement Services is excited to announce the availability of UC wide agreements reflecting deeply discounted prices for IT infrastructure. Products in five categories– routers and switches, wireless, firewalls, servers, and storage – are now available either…
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By John Ruzicka. Lean Six Sigma is a customer-oriented methodology that continually improves performance by eliminating waste. Most of the technical employees in Information Technology Services at the UC Office of the President (UCOP) have completed Yellow Belt training in…
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By Julie Goldstein. Smartphones and other electronic devices have made it easier to stay in touch and multi-task while traveling. But they can also mean increased cyber risks for keeping your personal and university information private, as well as increased…
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