OIT initiates
security efforts to foil cyber attacks

OIT Security and Compliance is taking proactive steps to protect campus users and the university from potentially devastating impacts of cyber security breaches. OIT is seeing significant increases in the number of users who fall victim to phishing attacks that trick them into divulging their university usernames and passwords. Their credentials are then used for malicious actions, such as attempts to gain unauthorized access to personal information or sensitive university systems and data as well as transmission of potentially embarrassing or damaging emails.