What do you get when technologists from eleven campus entities collaborate over a 2-year period? A reduction of duplicated efforts and an improved website management service just for starters. Continue Reading Merger of campus web services simplifies your life
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Meet the Candidates for Assistant Director of Digital Accessibility & User Experience
The UW-Madison Office of the CIO is pleased to announce three finalists for the new position of Assistant Director of Accessibility and User Experience. As part of their final interview process, each will give a 30 minute presentation, followed by Q&A. You are invited to participate. Continue Reading Meet the Candidates for Assistant Director of Digital Accessibility & User Experience
Dell Lunch and Learn: Hyperconverged solutions with VMware
Dell Lunch and Learn on hyperconverged solutions with VMware Wed, July 11, 2018 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM CDT Mechanical Engineering Building 1513 University Avenue, Room 1153 Madison, WI 53706 Register Intended audience: IT staff… Continue Reading Dell Lunch and Learn: Hyperconverged solutions with VMware
What do Facebook and the 2012 U.S. presidential election have in common?
Ben Hagen, is the current head of corporate information security at Facebook and former head of security for President Obama’s re-election campaign tech program. He and Dr. Rebecca Wynn, 2017 Cybersecurity Professional of the Year… Continue Reading What do Facebook and the 2012 U.S. presidential election have in common?
Update your Operating System for Box security patches
Box Desktop (Box Drive, Box Sync, Box Tools and Notes for Desktop) support on OS X 10.11 On July 31, 2018, Box Drive, Box Sync, Notes for Desktop and Box Tools will no longer be… Continue Reading Update your Operating System for Box security patches
CIO Spring 2018 Campus Forum – Slides
At our latest campus forum, we welcomed a few new hires and discussed IT developments in our third quarter. See the slideshow for more content. Slides from the spring 2018 CIO campus forum are available here.
Contemplate the future at Lockdown 2018
We can’t predict much about the future with certainty. However, it is a pretty safe bet that complex technologies will become increasingly intertwined in our daily lives. Though these technologies will undoubtedly make our lives… Continue Reading Contemplate the future at Lockdown 2018
UW names new CIO
Lois Brooks has been named CIO of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is currently CIO and vice provost of information and technology at Oregon State University and has years of experience in large research-intensive higher… Continue Reading UW names new CIO
Cybersecurity roundup: 7-Zip & Twitter
If you’re using the popular utility 7-Zip and don’t update to the latest version, your PC could vulnerable. And speaking of vulnerable, if you haven’t changed your Twitter password lately, you should so so today. Continue Reading Cybersecurity roundup: 7-Zip & Twitter
UW Qualtrics license update
The UW System Office of Procurement has announced updates for the Hosted Survey Service RFP plans and timelines: the current contract with Qualtrics will be extended for another year (thru 6/30/19) the RFP has been… Continue Reading UW Qualtrics license update