October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month. This year’s theme is Security is everyone’s job. 

You play an important part in keeping yourself and our campus cyber secure, regardless of your job title. It’s not about making the one perfect decision. It’s about building good cyber habits and repeating them every day. These small cyber decisions help protect your personal data, and the university’s data.

To make learning more fun, the Cybersecurity team has:

• Created a daily Cyber Wordle-style game
• Provided some easy tips about protecting your data online
• Pointed to some simple tools and websites that can help reduce the risk of a cyber threat

Learn more about these secrets, tools and sites on the Cybersecurity Awareness Month page.

Join us! Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) event

Event details

• Session: An Introduction to the Evolving Federal Research Cybersecurity Landscape and What it Means for University IT Teams.
• Date: Thursday, Oct. 29, 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. CDT
• Link to register: Registration required

Federal requirements around research cybersecurity are growing quickly, and university IT teams are increasingly the ones expected to put them into practice. This session offers a plain-language introduction to that landscape.

The conversation pairs a national policy perspective from EDUCAUSE with practical resources from the research security community, plus a look at how IT, security and research offices can partner effectively.