IT News
Virtual Office Hours with UW–Madison CIO Lois Brooks
Fridays, 9:15am. There will be no Office Hours Jul 1 because of the holiday weekend. The next special guest is Jul 15: Interim Chief Human Resources Officer and Associate Vice Chancellor Patrick Sheehan.
June 23, 2022EDUCAUSE New Managers Institute starts Jul 25
Begins Jul 25: The New Managers Institute is an online 8-week institute offering interactive live sessions and small applied team projects designed to support networking and learning.
June 23, 2022Join us for “CommunITea”
Join us for our last CommunITea before we go on summer hiatus! Today at 3:30pm via Zoom: open discussion.
June 23, 2022In case you missed it: Watch sessions from the IT Professionals Conference
Missed a session? Want to watch a session again? Recordings of all the 2022 sessions are available on the IT Professionals Conference website! Also: Help us make next year's conference even better by taking our survey.
June 8, 2022Meet the 2022 IT Recognition Award winners
Find out who was recognized in the following categories: Lifetime Achievement, Community Engagement, Rising Star, Team Achievement, Transformational Achievement, Unsung Hero and the Janet E. Plato Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Award. Congrats to the honorees!
June 8, 2022Attend the Cybersecurity Forward virtual webinar series
Every Wed at noon, Jun 22-Jul 27: Come and learn information technology essentials, explore pertinent tools and case studies, and discover ways to hone your leadership skills. Receive Continuing Professional Education credits (CPEs) for each session you attend!
June 7, 2022EDUCAUSE Data Literacy Institute: Jun 20-Aug 12
Are you new to working and communicating with data, or do you engage and interact with units that use data for decision making? Register for the online EDUCAUSE Data Literacy Institute to learn to use data confidently.
June 7, 2022Register early to attend the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference
Attend the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference in Denver, Oct 25-28 (price increases after Jul 25!). An online version of the conference takes place Nov 2-3. Registration opens Jun 14.
June 7, 2022Confluence upgrade Fri, Jun 3: user access impacted
This message is to inform you about an upgrade to Confluence (wiki.doit.wisc.edu) that will impact some users’ access for a brief period of time.
June 3, 2022Update: Google Sites transitioning Dec 2022
This summer, Google will transition Classic Google Sites to their new Google Sites platform. Stakeholders will receive reminders leading up to the transition.
June 1, 2022Email phishing alert: subject line “ATTENTION!!!”
Scammers recently sent a phony Office 365 login alert. Learn how to protect yourself!
June 1, 2022AIMS Transition Project roadmap
Team members from both Administrative Information Management Services (AIMS) and the Division of Information Technology (DoIT) are meeting regularly to map out the strategy for bringing our units together.
June 1, 2022EDUCAUSE Managers Institute starts Jun 13
Are you a higher ed manager with 3-5 years of experience? This 11-week online institute provides an immersive experience in support of engaging and motivating people, management values and decisions, effective organizational communication and more.
May 24, 2022Need a place to meet? Custom hybrid conference rooms might be the answer
Hybrid conference rooms with “out of the box” configurations can be arranged to fit up to 25 people in person, with plug-and-play conferencing hardware that accommodates hybrid meetings with ease.
May 18, 2022Email phishing alert: Subject line “IT Desk Message Incident…”
Scammers recently sent a phony email quota message. Learn how to protect yourself.
May 16, 2022- 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
