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The Security Champs Program, a community of IT staff that works with the ISO to support information security initiatives and share news and best practices with their units, will return in June 2026 after a two-year hiatus.

A cybersecurity mindset means you are proactive in your efforts to guard your digital life. You actively work to keep your accounts protected, and you consider what could go wrong and you make a plan.

The results from the most recent simulated phishing campaign are in, and the University of Utah community continues to step up to the plate to keep our digital campus secure!

The Strategic Information Technology Committee and Teaching and Learning Portfolio met in May.

University IT staff recognized for their excellent work!

After 41 years of unwavering dedication to the University of Utah and University of Utah Health, UIT leader Syndi Haywood retired on April 16, closing a remarkable period of technological advancement for the organization.

To help members of the university better understand and manage the sensitivity of documents in Google Workspace, UIT is preparing to roll out data classification labels. Data classification labels are metadata tags that users can apply to files in Google Drive (including Docs, Sheets, Slides, PDFs, and other supported file types).

The third annual Snowdance Student Film Festival culminated on March 27 with a public screening at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts. This year’s event showcased 11 student films — more than in previous years — reflecting a noticeable increase in scope and storytelling.

Reed juggles a few roles at the university: enterprise operations for K-12, higher ed, and other entities across the state; day-to-day IT operations for Eccles Broadcast Center; and president for the U's IT Professionals Forum Board of Directors.

As of April 1, the project team had worked with more than 20 U organizations to implement network access control in 12 areas. The team has also added a U of U Health project manager and outside contractor, and begun collaborating with the U’s Network Architecture Community of Practice.