by Dawn Brown | Oct 1, 2010 | IT News
By Scott Swartzentruber, Director of Networking and Communications WCU has added another tool in the ongoing fight to protect the campus from the harmful effects of malware: a web malware filter. Malware is the generic term for all forms of malicious software...
by Dawn Brown | Oct 1, 2010 | IT News
By Shandon Bates, Director of Systems and Operations As a university, WCU has the need to handle sensitive data frequently, from student records to health care information to financial data. Over time, the amount of sensitive data that we are required to store has...
by Dawn Brown | Sep 20, 2010 | IT News
Join CIO Craig Fowler and the Division of Information Technology for one of two IT Open Forums that will address questions concerning new security policies and the new Computer Pricing Initiative (CPI). Please plan on attending either of the events: Wednesday,...
by Dawn Brown | Sep 13, 2010 | IT News
In an effort to meet contractual, regulatory and statutory obligations to protect certain types of data, automatic e-mail forwarding to external addresses from WCU email will be retired Thursday, Oct. 14, 2010. How does this change affect you? You will be affected if...
by Dawn Brown | Sep 13, 2010 | IT News
In order to reduce security risk to university accounts, the connection protocol known as IMAP will be retired Monday, January 17, 2011. This decision was made by the Data Security and Stewardship Committee after review by the Executive Council. How does this change...
by Dawn Brown | Sep 13, 2010 | IT News
By William Frady, Manager of Instructional and Student Computing As of October 1, new procedures will cover the purchase of all institutional desktop and laptop computers through Dell, WCU’s approved vendor. These policies and procedures do not yet apply to Apple...
