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A new National Transfer Student Week podcast series, now streaming on YouTube, was developed through a partnership between the Office of Transfer Student Success and UIT’s Digital Learning Technologies.

More than 90% of successful cyberattacks start when you click/select an unfamiliar link in phishing email. One simple habit can stop many cyberattacks before they start: Pause and verify the source before clicking.

Proposals for the Learning Spaces-Student Computing Fees funding request and allocation process for fiscal year 2028 are due by January 20, 2027.

UIT teams recently celebrated the successful implementations of the university’s default deny firewall policy and cybersecurity toolset for each of UIT Campus Computer Support’s (UCCS) customers.

The Enterprise Web Advisory Council and Teaching and Learning Portfolio (TLP) met in October. The Strategic Information Technology Committee, Architecture and New Technology Committee, and TLP will reconvene in November.

University IT staff recognized for their excellent work!

University of Utah users should review the need for and terms of third-party applications, and request an institutional review if necessary, before granting them access to university resources and data.

In IT, a disaster is any event that seriously disrupts the systems the university depends on. Recovery is the planning and practice that gets those systems back up quickly. Here’s how campus IT and U of U Health are working together to build that capability.