by Dawn Brown | Mar 13, 2015 | IT News
To prevent the spread of malicious software, WCU’s implementation of Exchange Online Protection (EOP) blocks emails that have files with executable content as attachments. Examples of file types that would be blocked are .exe, .dll and .bat files. This block...
by Dawn Brown | Mar 6, 2015 | IT News
Email messages from compromised WCU faculty/staff accounts have recently been making the rounds, and these new phishing scams have affected WCU faculty, staff and students. In the most recent event which occurred on Thursday, March 5, the problem caused all on-campus...
by Dawn Brown | Feb 27, 2015 | IT News
Information security awareness training is a requirement mandated through the adoption of the ISO 27002 information security standards by WCU and the entire UNC System. In November 2013, we introduced the initial required information security training course based on...
by Dawn Brown | Feb 12, 2015 | IT News
The Root Cause team in IT is tasked with finding the causes of significant IT issues that affect campus. In this news update we draw your attention to some of the problems being investigated or issues handled recently. Outlook Calendaring – As IT Prepares the Campus...
by Dawn Brown | Feb 9, 2015 | IT News
Each month, the Division of IT hi-lights a service provided to the campus. This month’s service is: Folder/File Encryption The Division of IT supports a software solution for encryption and decryption of sensitive data providing cryptographic privacy and...
by Dawn Brown | Jan 8, 2015 | IT News
Each month, the Division of IT hi-lights a service provided to the campus. This month’s service is: Accounts for Guests to Access Administrative Resources The Division of IT creates and maintains Active Directory accounts which provide access to university computing...
