Message from the CIO
TTU participated in the inaugural Department of Homeland Security and the National
Cyber Security Alliance designation of October as "Cyber Security Awareness Month."
This year is our 14th campaign that includes educational sessions and communications
for the TTU community. We dedicate this bulletin to timely IT topics and challenges
that we face in higher education, and serve to remind us that "we are all responsible"
for the protection of institutional, as well as personal, data. We encourage you to
be cyber aware, and to think before you click.
As many of you know, we have been providing the IT Division Bulletin online and in
print since 2004, and last summer we migrated to a design template to optimize online
publication. As such, we will no longer be printing and mailing the TTU Bulletin;
we will send you an email with online access information and we will provide printed
copies only at our events and educational sessions, or by request to iteducation@ttu.edu.
Go Tech!
Sam Segran
Associate Vice President for IT and Chief Information Officer
Equifax recently announced a cybersecurity incident potentially affecting 143 million U.S. consumers (source). The information accessed includes names, social security numbers, birthdates, and addresses. In some instances, driver's license and credit card numbers were also stolen.
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For the last several years, the banking industry has been using Two Factor Authentication (2FA) to secure online banking accounts and transactions. 2FA requires a user to have a password and an additional piece of information that you are given in order to access the application, or to complete certain transactions. In the last few months, the TTU IT Division added 2FA for some eRaider web-authenticated resources.
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Data loss refers to the unauthorized or accidental exposure of personal or confidential data that could lead to identity theft. As a reminder, faculty and staff who have a business need to access the personally identifiable information of students and employees must exercise diligent care to avoid unintentionally exposing that information to identity thieves.
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TTU students, faculty, and staff have recently received email designed to trick you into giving away your eRaider username and password to computer hackers on the Internet.
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Texas Tech University has procedures in place for reporting computer security incidents as outlined in the Incident Management Security Policy. Faculty, staff, and students must file a report prior to any attempt to remediate, solve, or troubleshoot the incident.
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Raider PC Mart allows departments to electronically connect with other departments that may be interested in outgoing computing equipment. Raider PC Mart is an online equipment transfer application for used computer equipment and peripherals.
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Data Loss Due to Carelessness