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Mobile devices introduce vulnerabilities that can lead to security threats. To mitigate some of the risks, the University is adopting a Mobile Device Management (MDM) approach. This will entail downloading an app onto University-issued and personal mobile devices. Support staff and professors who wish to maintain mobile device access to Office 365 applications and associated data, including uOttawa email and calendar, will be affected by this security endeavour. The project team will be contacting faculties and services in waves starting this summer.

Science agrees: People are happier and more productive when they get recognition for their efforts. Send acclaim to your employees and coworkers with Praise. Deliver in a chat, or for wider recognition, send it in a Teams channel.

Did you know that phishing and account compromises have seen a significant worldwide increase since the start of the pandemic? Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) enrolment significantly reduces instances of an account compromise by over 99%. To deliver this added benefit to student accounts, all new students will be required to enrol into MFA.

Since the mid-1990s, the AIX1 and AIX2 servers have hosted websites belonging to professors, support staff and students, many of which are still active. However, the technology on these machines is largely obsolete. For this reason, we are decommissioning these servers and advise users with websites hosted on them to migrate their information to another platform.

A new Research Software Development team is geared up to start software development projects from the uOttawa research community. Check out how we’re building a research support community and planning to deliver new resources, tools and workshops soon. 

World Backup Day is an opportunity to inform you about the importance of backing up your data. Read more about why you should backup, its importance and how you should do it. 

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