Security & Compliance Archives

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Sep 26, 2025
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Account Authentication Goes Passwordless

Account authentication has always been one of ECU's most important security strategies for users. To make verification convenient as well as secure, ECU now offers four cutting-edge passwordless authentication technologies....

Aug 11, 2025
  • IT News

Password Reset Moves to Microsoft 365

NOTE: Faculty and staff using an ECU-managed macOS computer will continue to change their password through their computer – not through Microsoft 365 My Account. ​​​On Monday, August 18, current faculty, students and...

May 12, 2025
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Cisco Secure/AnyConnect VPN Client Updates

Beginning Tuesday, May 13, Patch My PC will deploy an update to all ECU-managed Windows computers that moves the Umbrella Roaming Client under the Secure Endpoint interface. Additionally, the AnyConnect...

Mar 26, 2025
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File Sharing: Know the Rules!

So you think that downloading free music and movies from the Internet is a great idea? You might want to think twice about that. ECU blocks all file-sharing traffic on...

Sep 20, 2024
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ECU Cybersecurity Awareness Month

Since 2004, the President of the United States and Congress have declared the month of October to be Cybersecurity Awareness Month, a dedicated month for the public and private sectors...

Don't get hooked
Sep 13, 2024
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Don’t Take the Bait! Spot Phishing Emails

If you accidentally respond to a phishing email, change your password immediately, verify your multifactor methods,  then call the IT service Desk at 252-328-9866. Phishing emails appear legitimate but are...

Mar 31, 2023
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Cybersecurity Awareness Resources

This past year, the Information Security Office promoted several security awareness topics to empower faculty and staff to stay cyber secure, build a culture of security, and better protect the...

Oct 19, 2022
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Identity Theft: Protect Yourself

This year’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month theme, "See Yourself in Cyber," focuses on an individual's smart decisions to keep safe and secure online. Today’s post provides tips to help you avoid...

May 21, 2022
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Fake News, Misinformation, and Disinformation as Cyber Security Threats

View the Adobe Spark version of this newsletter. WHAT IS FAKE NEWS? "Fake news" is "fabricated information that mimics news media content in form but not in organizational process or...

Apr 05, 2022
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Tips on How to Protect Yourself from Online Identity Theft and Phishing Scams

View the Adobe Spark version of this newsletter. Cyber crime in all its many forms can, at best, wreak havoc in victims’ lives through major inconvenience and annoyance. At worst,...