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Important Changes to Duo

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University Catalog Improvements for 2025-2026

Concert Ticket Scam Targets Students

Checklist: Before You Arrive

1. Review computer recommendations and consider the Cornell Store for your technology needs.
2. Activate your NetID and set your NetID password recovery email.
   • Learn more about your NetID, including what services it can give you access to.
3. Set up Cornell Two-Step Login.
4. View your registration, enrollment, student financials, course options, and more
5. Select an email system to access your Cornell email.
6. Register for campus Wi-Fi with eduroam - Some students have reported that onboarding with Cornell’s network interfered with their current school’s eduroam network connection. If your school uses eduroam, consider waiting until arriving on campus to do this step.
7. Activate your Cornell Zoom account.
8. Uninstall filesharing programs to avoid copyright infringement risks.

IT Resources

• How To

  • Get IT Support.
  • Connect to campus Wi-Fi (eduroam) and register a Device That Doesn't Have a Browser (Video Game Consoles, Smart TVs, etc.).
  • Install CU Print and find CU Print printers on campus.
  • Use Canvas to access course materials.
  • Download the Microsoft Office suite for free and find licensed software.
  • Visit the university's computer labs to work on projects, print, or use software you don't have.
  • Book a study space (quiet space, Zoom space, or small group space).

  • Learn new skills for free with LinkedIn Learning and Skillsoft.

     

• Collaborate

  • Zoom is a full-featured web and video conferencing service for online meetings and webinars.
  • Microsoft Teams provides real-time collaboration and communication, virtual meeting capabilities, and easy file sharing.

   

• Stay Secure

  • Protect your devices and stay safe online.
  • Report if your NetID password is compromised.
  • Use these tips to identify email scams and see examples of phishing emails that have been spotted at Cornell.
  • Apply best practices to your mobile device.
  • Use Cornell's VPN (virtual private network) service when you need to connect to campus resources that would otherwise be unavailable from distant networks.
  • Use Cornell Secure File Transfer.
  • Make sure your computer has antivirus software.

   

• Research Tools

  Qualtrics Survey Tool

  Cornell provides a survey tool, Qualtrics, for use at no cost by Cornell students, faculty, staff, and retirees. Users can create and distribute their own surveys and gather information in support of the university's educational mission and organizational goals.

  CCSS

  The Cornell Center for Social Sciences is a strategic partner who can help take your research to the next level with a full continuum of tools and expertise. We offer a range of support, technology, and collaboration in each of our focus areas: data services, research, computing resources, consulting, and training.

  CAC

  Cornell University's Center for Advanced Computing offers staff and students research education and outreach, as well as computing and consulting services that range from HPC systems and storage to programming, database development, and web portal design.

   

• Artificial Intelligence

  • Try ZoomAI Companion to generate meeting notes and summaries.
  • Use Copilot for experimenting with generative AI text, image, and coding tools.
     

A Message from Robert Edamala, Chief Information Security Officer

Greetings,

It’s that time of year! October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM), an annual campaign to share helpful resources everyone needs to stay safe and secure online.

In today’s digital world, cybersecurity isn’t just an IT concern, it’s everyone’s responsibility.

You’ll see tips, activities, and resources shared each week, and we encourage you to participate, ask questions, and take advantage of everything being offered.

The theme this year is Stay Safe Online. Throughout the month, Cornell’s IT Security Office will share simple but powerful actions that everyone can take to strengthen our cybersecurity:

• Use strong passwords and a password manager
• Turn on multifactor authentication for your personal accounts
• Update your software
• Recognize and report scams

Cyberattacks and hackers are targeting Cornell.

Criminals continue to target Higher Education Institutions through sophisticated phishing schemes and scams and Cornell is not an exception. Faculty, staff and students have been subject to increasing social engineering and scams. Be ever vigilant and report email scammers posing as a professor offering fake jobs, or a supervisor asking you to send money.

Attackers see Cornell as a high-value target. We can all expect to experience more, and more sophisticated, attempts in the future.

But we’re not defenseless.

Fortunately, most attacks are easy to recognize. As a shared responsibility, here are a few ways we can protect ourselves and each other from cyberattacks:

• Watch out for, and do not approve, Duo two-step prompts you didn’t initiate. This likely means your NetID password has been stolen, so change it immediately and contact the IT Security Office. This year, we are making changes to Duo to reduce the likelihood of attackers manipulating you into approving access, but we’re relying on you to be vigilant.
• Never share your NetID password or reuse your password on non-Cornell websites and watch out for phishing emails that attempt to steal your password. See the Phish Bowl for examples.
• Keep your computers up-to-date and install antivirus software. Cornell employees should always use a Cornell-managed Certified Desktop computer that includes essential protections.
• Cornell faculty and staff can use Secure Connect to add an extra layer of security to their Cornell-managed and personal devices. There are many benefits to using passkeys, including keeping your accounts protected even if you've had your password stolen, or you've fallen for a phishing scam.

Please join me this month in staying safe online. The more informed and empowered you and I are, the safer our community is.

Thank you.

Robert Edamala

Chief Information Security Officer