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The next meeting of the IT Security SIG is Wednesday, November 11, 2020, from 10:30am-noon on Zoom. The IT Security SIG is sponsored by the Cornell IT Security Office.
Do all of your apps need to track your location? Definitely not. Take a moment now to configure the privacy and security settings of your apps and devices.
You can now add an external guest to a team in Cornell Microsoft Teams.
The OBIEE Reporting tool will be upgraded on October 23, 2020.
On Thursday, December 31, 2020, Adobe Flash Player will reach “End of Life” (EOL) status. This means the program will no longer be distributed, supported, or updated by Adobe. The lack of available security updates after the EOL date means that continued use of Flash Player...
As previously announced per the Student Printing Service Project, Cornell is transitioning from Net-Print to a new campus printing service. Cornell Information Technologies and the Student Assembly recently partnered to select CU Print as the new service name. Currently, CU Print is in the...
Later this year, CIT’s Email and Messaging team will update the AppSMTP service, used by applications, printers, scanners, and monitoring devices to send automated email to users.
Last August, Cornell implemented an effective new tool to protect campus email users from malicious attacks. Since Microsoft Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) Safe Attachments was deployed on the university’s Office 365 email service, it has greatly reduced the possibility of...
Cornell has chosen 3Play Media as the preferred vendor for human captioning and transcription of video content. After thoughtful review, the university determined that 3Play provided the best fit for a wide range of the campus community’s captioning and transcription needs....
October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Take simple steps now to protect yourself at home from online attacks: Secure your Wi-Fi network, enable stronger authentication, keep a clean machine, know your apps, and reassess what you share online.
For some customers, Zoom has begun implementing live, real-time automatic speech recognition (ASR) transcripts. This feature is available to Cornell users who host meetings and webinars.
The next meeting of the IT Security SIG is Wednesday, October 14, 2020. Join us for National Cybersecurity Awareness Month trivia. This is an event you won't want to miss!
As previously announced, CIT has launched the WebSSO Modernization Project, a program to retire the CUWebAuth web application authentication service and migrate to Shibboleth SAML-based authentication. The service retirement deadline is September 30, 2021.
Starting Wednesday, October 7, 2020, CIT will no longer include Emergency Notification in the Certified Desktop Tableau dashboards. This reporting change will not negatively impact the Certified Desktop compliance metrics that are presented to Audit. E...
The second stage of the multiyear project to bring Cority services to Cornell has entered its "discovery" phase.
Google Drive trash items will be automatically deleted after 30 days starting on October 13, 2020.
The Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) reporting tool, scheduled for upgrade on October 23, 2020, brings new features to you at no cost. Exciting new functionality includes modern data visualization, the ability to join to local files, and edit data much like in Excel or...
As part of Cornell’s ongoing commitment to sustainability, innovation, and improved IT services, CIT is launching the WebSSO Modernization Project, a program to retire the CUWebAuth web application authentication service and migrate to Shibboleth SAML-based authentication. This project is part...
Equidox PDF remediation software is now available for faculty, staff, and student workers who are assisting with accessibility projects.
The full feature set of Microsoft Teams is now available to all Cornell faculty and staff.