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The Teaching and Learning Portfolio (TLP) met on November 30. The Strategic Information Technology Committee (SITC) will next meet on January 11. The Architecture and New Technology Committee (ANTC) will reconvene on January 24, and the Enterprise Web Advisory Council (EWAC) will meet again on February 10.

UIT staff recognized for their excellent work.

Before putting a bow on 2021, we revisit UIT Holiday Luncheons and Prize Drawings of years past. The gallery includes photos from 2015 to 2019 at the Post Theater, Rice-Eccles Stadium, and Alumni House.

If you could patent a one-size-fits-all tool guaranteed to make every employee and student happier and more productive, you would, right? So would Microsoft, Box, and other cloud service companies, which is why they regularly offer cloud-based products with these goals in mind.

The university and its resources are under attack every day. However, by implementing stronger controls on privilege, and on all accounts for those resources, we can make the attackers work much harder to move around laterally and vertically.

Starting this week, UIT will begin the university-wide migration of Skype for Business chat and collaboration and voice accounts to Microsoft Teams. UIT’s Account Executives will work directly with departments that depend on Skype for Business for voice services and conference rooms.

A set of credentials is extremely valuable to a cybercriminal. You, however, can make them more difficult for an attacker to obtain by following the U’s password policies and IT security best practices.

When answering calls to your university phone number, please identify your affiliation with the University of Utah or University of Utah Health. Similarly, when recording voicemail greetings, please identify your U affiliation in the message.

As we prepare for holiday season, criminals are thinking about ways they can capitalize on current events and issues. By thinking ahead and staying alert, however, we can better prepare for potential phishing schemes, social engineering, and other cyberattacks.

Members of the University of Utah and University of Utah Health communities must install and start to use the new GlobalProtect client for their VPN needs before Friday, December 31, 2021.