Effective Oct. 1, Donna Kidwell will serve as Acting CIO and Deyves Fonseca will serve as Acting CISO.

U of T systems remain unaffected by the CrowdStrike incident. FAQs are available for those concerned about the potential for similar disruptions.

Password re-use is a significant contributor to data breaches, as stolen credentials can be exploited to gain unauthorized access to other accounts. The University of Toronto has acquired 5,000 1Password Business licenses for staff, faculty and librarians and four years of 1Password Families at no cost for students.

The Security Awareness and Training (SAT) Foundations project provides essential cyber security training that has made strides to strengthen security awareness at U of T. The project is now expanding its impact even further by onboarding faculty.

On March 21, the Security Awareness and Training Foundations (SATF) project celebrated a significant milestone by recognizing the first 20 units to join and the first 50 users who successfully completed onboarding training in phase two, commending their collective effort in driving the project’s success.

Exciting changes are coming to Duo, the University of Toronto's trusted mobile app for multi-factor authentication. These changes will improve the MFA authentication experience for U of T students, faculty and staff.

A new Report Phishing button will soon be available in Outlook for all U of T staff, faculty, librarians and students to use for reporting suspicious emails. This new button will appear in Outlook toolbars between Feb. 26 and March 8, and should be used instead of Microsoft’s “Report Message” button.

Data Privacy Day is celebrated annually and serves as a crucial reminder about the importance of protecting personal information and data. This year, Information Security and the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy (FIPP) Office hosted a virtual panel event on Jan. 25 to celebrate Data Privacy Day.

The Office of the Chief Information Security Officer has officially released the University of Toronto’s Information Security Strategy.