As COVID-19 disease concerns push more people online for their daily routines, the need for data security grows exponentially. From Apple and Google to the entire City of New Orleans, the hacking hits keep coming. What’s the one bright spot in all of this for students? Careers in data security are unprecedented. On Jan. 17, Ohio State's Office of Research launched the new Institute for Cybersecurity and Digital Trust (ICDT). Co-led by Electrical and Computer Engineering Chair Hesham El Gamal and Ohio State's Chief Information Security Officer Helen Patton, the institute's goal is to organize the university’s collective data security assets and team up with partners statewide to make a difference.
Criminals are opportunists, and unfortunately many will take advantage of the fear and uncertainty surrounding COVID-19 (Coronavirus) to launch phone scams and phishing campaigns.
Be on the lookout for an increased number of COVID-19 related phishing emails and scams. Even if they are...
We’re all doing our part to stop the spread of Coronavirus (COVID-19) . There are more and more sensible reasons to work from home – from the lengthened suspension of Ohio State’s face-to-face classes to the Governor’s order to keep K-12 children out of school for a few weeks.
We've collected resources to help you Keep Working during this time. Our site designed to answer all of your technology questions.
All Ohio State staff, faculty and students are invited to join the next Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) Women in IT (WIT) Virtual conference on February 7 from 1-4 p.m.
Ohio State’s mission to deliver excellence in privacy requires new and innovative uses of personal information to foster data-driven decisions, w hich is why we're inviting you to participate in Data Privacy Days in 2020!
As part of our Office 365 Transformation Roadmap , we are implementing email improvements throughout the current academic year. Two upcoming enhancements are a new and improved landing page for logging in to email...
Some of our users have recently reported seeing a widely-used Username and Password scam that cybercriminals are using to extort money from recipients. Our email security software has been stopping these messages and sending a follow up notification that a malicious email has been contained. But...
A common email security tip warns recipients against replying to emails from senders that they don’t recognize. For that reason, we want to make you aware that we are changing our IT Service Desk email.
The address is currently this: IT Service Desk - Office of the Chief Information Officer...
