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Important Information!

Hackers are just waiting to use stressful situations and fear to con people into giving personal information. Be cautious of emails and links giving you information about COVID-19. Many links and sites are actually scams utilized to scare users into giving information. Particularly avoid emails that seemingly come from the World Health Organization (WHO) and any link to maps showing COVID-19 cases. When in doubt, even the least bit of doubt, please delete the email.

Also, beware of emails and calls from someone claiming to be a vendor. These kinds of emails and calls have been seemingly coming out of the woodworks the past few months. If you haven't contacted a vendor or asked for the information online, please delete the email. If you have never heard of the vendor or, heaven forbid, the vendor misspells​ the very issue they are begging to contact you about, please delete the email.

Please refer to these documents as we remain secure while facing some pretty hectic events:

Don't hesitate to contact me at sandy@tennessee.edu if you have concerns or questions!

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Security Awareness

  • Don't Click; Don't Connect; Don't Reply
    How many of us go to conferences or events and then get inundated with emails from vendors we met while at these conferences?
  • IT Security Policy Updates
    As promised, I am trying to keep everyone informed of policy updates, so this month I would like to talk about two of those policies.
  • Updating NetReg
    A while back, I told everyone about UTIA IT0304P - Network Registration Procedures​. The procedures are for properly registering your Institute-owned IT assets so the Network Registration (NetReg) database would have the assets’ correct information.
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