Social media companies refer to platform manipulation as the unauthorized use of their platforms by criminals who employ deceptive or aggressive activity to disrupt or mislead other users. In common terms, actions like spam, fake accounts, or automated accounts all fall under this rubric.
Sam Segran, CIO and Vice President for Information Technology, has been designated one of the "Higher Education IT Executive of the Year" winners in the inaugural 2022 EdScoop 50 Awards.
As the semester begins winding down, our holiday preparations are gearing up. In this issue, we provide a few resources and important reminders for the upcoming holiday shopping season on how to stay mindful and secure while looking for gifts online and completing online purchases. For those of you who have computer equipment on your shopping list, TTU has negotiated many computer and technology discounts available to members of the Texas Tech community, and these discounts are also available for personal purchases. As you may have seen in various campus announcements, the TTU IT Division is upgrading (to ServiceNow) our IT service management system that was used for handling customer requests. Remember that the winter holiday season is prime time for Internet criminals. We urge you to practice safe computing, stay vigilant, and think before you click! Happy Thanksgiving Wishes to All!
Since 2004 when the National Cybersecurity Alliance designated October as “National Cybersecurity Awareness Month,” Texas Tech University has participated every year to help raise awareness about the importance of cybersecurity. We remain committed to maintaining a secure, reliable, and sophisticated information technology infrastructure, and continuously address the cybersecurity challenges that we face in higher education. In this issue, we provide relevant and timely news on protecting yourself from online fraud. Humanitarian issues in Ukraine and severe weather in the US create opportunities for Internet criminals to exploit, so please note we count on the TTU Community to stay alert and recognize scam emails and phishing attempts. Also included in this issue, you will find information and best practices for protecting institutional and personal information resources and data. Your vigilance and practice of safe computing is a critical component of our institutional data and information security strategies; we are all responsible for exercising due diligence in protecting confidential and sensitive TTU data and information resources. Go Tech!