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A disaster recovery plan helps quickly restore critical data and IT systems, minimize operational disruption, and ensure organizational stability. This includes employees being paid promptly after a catastrophic event.

All university employees have been successfully migrated from RSA SecureID to Duo Security for two-factor authentication (2FA). Read our project update, and join us in welcoming Kevin Buchan and David Craig, our newest project managers.

UIT's Identity and Access Management (IAM) team in the Information Security Office (ISO) has combined feedback from the Department of Pathology with data already collected from UIT, ITS and Campus HR managers selected to test a new user access review process in a SailPoint training environment.

The Coral phone system was implemented in 2005 as a replacement system for off-campus clinics acquired by U of U Health. Over the last few years, however, we've been transitioning off-site clinics to newer systems that provide more capabilities.

We're pleased to announce that after a careful review and analysis of several project management tools, including Planview, Jira, Basecamp, and ServiceNow, we've selected ServiceNow as UIT's project management tool.

On behalf of the entire UIT Project Management Office, we'd like to wish you a wonderful holiday season. We'll be back next month with regularly scheduled PMO updates and news.

In project meetings we unknowingly discuss risk, in the context of “what-ifs?” The project team may not realize these risk factors, so they are not assessed or managed until the risk occurs.

Since the Project Management Office officially formed in March, we’ve been busy. So maybe that’s an understatement; we have so much going on right now!

We're all really, really busy. There’s an endless stream of emails, texts, phone calls and voicemails bombarding us, and we’re tethered to our communication technologies all day, every day.

In May 2016, University Information Technology contracted with a consultant to begin a huge endeavor: a physical wireless survey of over 200 buildings across campus.