SECURE UD NEWS
De-identifying Personally Identifiable Information: Unlocking Additional Value
By PC Shea, University of Delaware Chief Privacy Officer Data privacy laws restrict how personally identifiable information (PII) can be used and for what purposes. When PII is de-identified, however, the resulting data can be used for other purposes because it is no...
Welcome Back!
Boundaries Refresh your boundaries in the new school year. Boundaries can help you plan and communicate your response to what other people say or do and will help immensely when shutting down social engineering criminals. If someone calls trying to get in touch...
Education, videos, and prizes, oh my!
Secure UD Education Completion 2022 We are pleased to report that over 40% of enrolled users completed the Secure UD education program last fiscal year. This represents a significant improvement from the 21% completion rate from 2021. Keep up the good work, Blue Hens!...
Secure UD News: May 2023 Edition
In this edition: learn about the tech request process, new tips for staying secure, and how to win prizes for completing your Secure UD training.
Working Remotely and Securely
Working remotely offers many benefits, such as flexibility, convenience, and more family time, but it also poses many risks for network security.
Third Party Risk Management and the Tech Request process
How does UD work to minimize third party risk with our technology? Third Party Risk Management is a key step in the University’s Technology Request protocol that reviews and verifies several factors for every technology purchase to help keep our data secure, our personal privacy protected, and our systems unexploited.
Introducing LastPass for UD: A password management solution
Do you have too many passwords? Remembering and typing passwords is a painful, repetitive, error-prone, and time-consuming task. The LastPass 2021 Psychology Of Passwords Report suggests that 90% of users have an average of 50 online accounts and 68% reuse their...
Keep your UD workstations protected with endpoint security tools
Enhanced endpoint protection is being rolled out by IT Professionals within each unit and department at UD in partnership with UD Information Technologies. If you had Cylance previously, it has been replaced with the new Crowdstrike Falcon product, which significantly...
Practice makes perfect: Announcing new and improved phishing tests
We are using our new training platform–KnowBe4–to increase the difficulty of these tests by incorporating some of the same data that phishers use in real life, such as your supervisor and department name or the details of announced university activities. Awareness is...
Ready for some fun? Check out our new training
Completing cybersecurity training helps the UD community recognize and respond to cybersecurity threats and avoid simple mistakes that could threaten UD’s networks and data. Restricted Intelligence episodes are optional viewing and will be released monthly starting...