IT News
Join Us For “CommunITea”
Thursdays at 3:30pm via Zoom. Previous spontaneous discussion has included fictional languages, data onomatopoeia, info architecture, travel recommendations, animal facts, hybrid meetings—and, of course, pets!
January 14, 2022HRIS Application Support Associate Director Finalist Presentation
Interim HRIS Associate Director Scott Nachazel has been selected as the finalist for this human resource information system (HRIS) position. He will give a finalist presentation Jan 18, open to UW–Madison faculty and staff.
January 12, 2022Virtual Office Hours With UW–Madison CIO Lois Brooks
Fridays, 9:15am. Join your IT colleagues from across the university, and spend time with Lois Brooks, unscripted. Jan 14 special guest: Lisa Carter, vice provost for libraries and university librarian.
January 12, 2022Webex App expands to cover softphone, meeting and chat
Beginning Feb 1, UW–Madison will have the ability to use Webex as a primary team communication app for softphones, meeting, and chat.
January 10, 2022New UW–Madison Zoom Requirements: How To Prepare
Effective Jan 11, all UW–Madison Zoom accounts will be required to use a minimum Zoom desktop or mobile application version of 5.6.3 or later. Find out what you need to do to prepare for the change.
January 5, 2022Planned Shared Drive Outage Jan 8-9
The planned outage window will affect all ResearchDrive, RestrictedDrive and Shared Drive shares on the Isilon system.
December 22, 2021Ideas From Your Colleagues For Some Winter Fun
As you prepare to hopefully take some time off to relax and unwind in the weeks ahead, why not take some crowdsourced suggestions from your colleagues for a little winter downtime?
December 17, 2021Action Needed: Log4J Vulnerability
The UW–Madison Cybersecurity Operations Center has confirmed numerous attempts on the campus network. In order to secure your systems, you need to act now.
December 15, 2021Check out the latest DoIT Operations core monthly report
The monthly reports offer a broad view of DoIT’s operations, intended to help tell the story of our work and get us in the mindset of asking key questions.
December 14, 2021I&TLC 2021: Tell Us Your Thoughts
Did you attend last week’s Information & Technology Leadership Conference (I&TLC)? If so, please fill out this 5-minute survey to tell us what you thought and help shape next year’s conference.
December 8, 2021Meet Our DoIT Help Desk Agents
Wondering who’s the person on the other end when you contact the Help Desk? Meet our corgi-loving, “Saw” movie-binging crew of helpful troubleshooters—and don’t forget to contact the Help Desk when you need us!
December 8, 2021New Features And Requirements For UW–Madison Zoom
The popular video conferencing app has a new minimum version requirement and released a set of exciting new features.
December 7, 2021Endpoint Management Project Roadmap
An "endpoint" is a computing device that communicates back and forth with a network, including desktops, laptops, servers, and smartphones. Learn more about this project, critical to reducing threats to university networks.
December 7, 2021Holiday Scams To Avoid (And Easy Tips To Protect Yourself)
The holidays are here. Unfortunately, so are the holiday scams. Learn to recognize them and protect yourself.
December 7, 2021Check Out DoIT’s 2020-2021 Annual Report
From responding to COVID-19 to serving the university's mission to advancing strategic missions, take a look back at our achievements—and a look ahead at our focus for the future.
December 2, 2021- More IT News posts
From the CIO
Reflections On 2020, With Hope For The Year Ahead
From CIO Lois Brooks: While we have all experienced loss in many different forms this year, it’s heartening to also think about the ways we have grown in our resilience in the face of adversity.
December 22, 2020Listen, learn, act: Coming to grips with the death of George Floyd
From CIO Lois Brooks: I’m writing now to share my thoughts with you with the hope that reading them connects us together, and to offer my commitment to you.
June 5, 2020Respond. Recover. Thrive.
Nothing is the same. Yet the university’s mission remains as focused and clear as it’s always been. Within DoIT and the IT community at the university, our mission remains the same as well.
May 4, 2020Staying socially connected at a distance
As we all adjust to an immense amount of change and uncertainty, CIO Lois Brooks shares things we’re doing at DoIT to maintain social connection, even as we remain physically distant for a time.
April 3, 2020Reflection on the past few weeks—and the work ahead
Chief Information Officer Lois Brooks reflects on the university's shift to a fully virtual environment and the "all hands lifting" university-wide collaboration that made it possible.
April 1, 2020- More CIO Blog posts
The CISO's Perspective
The CISO’s Perspective—The Undiscovered Vulnerability
Departing Chief Information Security Officer Bob Turner shares some intergalactic perspectives on the past 6 years of cybersecurity defense, and signals our readiness for the battles ahead.
July 16, 2021Our New Year’s Resolution: Improve our IT security posture
We are not immune to things going on in the rest of the world. Criminal hackers are well funded and becoming more sophisticated. So what can IT departments do to be more secure?
January 20, 2021Waking Up To 2021
Perspectives from Chief Information Security Officer Bob Turner: When we woke up on Jan 1, we still had many of the same problems we faced in 2020. Where we go from here is up to us.
January 5, 2021The colors of cybersecurity
Perspectives from Chief Information Security Officer Bob Turner: Let's make the change and toss the old terms and invite new, accurate and non-offensive ways to express who we are and what we do.
July 13, 2020Looking for opportunity in COVID-19
Perspectives from Chief Information Security Officer Bob Turner: While COVID-19 has brought challenges, it also brings great opportunities to rethink the way we work.
May 14, 2020- More CISO’s Perspective – Cybersecurity Blog posts
